History, Women and Gender: From a Genderless History to a Gender History

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on women and gender historiography. First, we succinctly examine the transition from a history without women to a women’s history. Second, we pay attention to “gender” as a category of historical analysis and to the displacement to a gender history. Third, we consider the path towards institutionalization and recognition of these studies. And finally, we present some current problems and challenges characteristic of this field of research.