History, Memory, and Empowerment
Karen Offen (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a historian and independent scholar affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University in California.
She publishes on the history of Modern Europe, especially France and its global influence; Western thought and politics with reference to family, gender, and the relative status of women; historiography; women's history; the national, regional and global histories of feminism; and comparative history.
Karen's recent books include Globalizing Feminisms, 1789–1945 (Routledge, 2010) and Les Féminismes en Europe, 1700–1950 (PUR, 2012)
NOW IN PRINT from Cambridge University Press: The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870 (November 2017); now in paperback (March 2019)
AND Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920)(February 2018)
AND IN ADDITION Women’s History at the Cutting Edge, ed. Karen Offen & Chen Yan (Routledge, 2019); this is a hardcover reprint of the special issue of Women’s History Review 27:1 (February 2018)
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The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870
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Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920
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Feminismos europeos, 1700-1950 Una historia politica
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Evropski Feminizmi 1700-1950.
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Les Féminismes en Europe, 1700-1950
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“This book is itself an historic turning point. It marks the maturity of women’s history as a field of study internationally and it opens up future research agendas in the global history of feminisms. This book will be cherished and it will change the way we do women’s history. ”
—KATHRYN KISH SKLAR
Editor, Women and Social Movements International -
“In an ambitious history, detailed in both depth and breadth, Offen provides a comprehensive account that re-reads European history from developing feminist perspectives… affordable and interesting enough to appeal to the general reader… "
—Feminist Academic Press Column