Reconsidering Categories of Analysis: Possibilities for Feminist Studies of Conflict

Introduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies

“…This messiness and interdependence marks as 'methodologically impractical any prescription for prioritising or de-prioritising gender as a category'. 8 They do this, too, by engaging with and historicising earlier debates and moments of gender scholarship, by mobilising their acknowledgment of epistemological difference to understand better the intellectual and political genealogies of gender history and by recognising the dialectical processes that mark the evolution of fields of scholarship, while also questioning what is possible or constructive in terms of cross-epistemological conversations at the current moment of gender history. Readers can thus draw on the collected articles to ponder epistemological questions in a range of ways.…”