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 latest book is European Feminisms, 1700 1950: A Political History (Stanford University Press, 2000).
Last revised: December 9, 2007
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". . . An ambitious and substantially fascinating comparative narrative
. . . thoroughly researched, bibliographically impeccable, and interpretatively feisty
. . . henceforth essential reading for experts and generalists alike . . . "
— Judith A. Allen, American Historical Review
