Afterword: Feminist Histories

This essay provides a synthetic overview of the preceding articles in this special issue on Feminist Histories, situating them within the historical literature that helped shape the field of U.S. women's history. Drawing out recurrent ideas across topics, the afterword identifies how the authors both build upon and innovatively expand the overlapping concepts of "the personal is political" and intersectional identities. They raise new questions about authorial experience, the inseparability of race, gender, and sexual politics, and the complexity of historical interpretation.