Contesting archives

by Nupur Chaudhuri

""Contesting Archives makes vivid and concrete the way historians must proceed when faced with partial or contradictory sources. Historians and anyone interested in how historians work will appreciate the authors' strategies for, and cautions about, unearthing information about women from documents inside and outside the archive." Margaret Strobel, coeditor of Expanding the Borders of Women's History" "The contributors of Contesting Archives challenge the assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and ahistorical repository of information. Instead, these historians view it as a...