Writing Women's History across Time and Space : Introduction / Pamela S. Nadell and Kate Haulman -- [part 1]. Imagining New Histories : Late-Twentieth-Century Trajectories -- Women's Past and the Currents of U.S. History / Kathy Peiss -- New Directions in Russian and Soviet Women's History / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Africa : Using Women and Gender to Put the Political in Economy, 1992-2010 / Claire Robertson -- Sexual Crises, Women's History, and the History of Sexuality in Europe / Anna Clark -- [part 2]. Engendering National and Nationalist Projects -- Gender and the Politics of Exceptionalism in the Writing of British Women's History / Arianne Chernock -- Amateur Historians, the "Woman Question," and the Production of Modern History in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Egypt / Lisa Pollard -- Women's and Gender History in Modern India : Researching the Past, Reflecting on the Present / Mytheli Sreenivas -- [part 3]. Exploring Transnational Approaches -- World History Meets History of Masculinity in Latin American Studies / Ulrike Strasser and Heidi Tinsman -- Connecting histories of Gender, Health, and U.S.-China Relations / Cristina Zaccarini -- A Happier Marriage? Feminist History Takes the Transnational Turn / Jocelyn Olcott