International-comparative approach to the analysis of theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of the history of women’s everyday life

Abstract

The aim of the article was to study different scientific approaches and methods of studying the problems of women’s everyday life in international historiography. In order to achieve the goal, a comparative analysis of studies on the history of women’s everyday life, which were published in different countries of the world, was carried out, as well as the themes of works and approaches used by scholars to study the topic. In the course of the research, it was established that the history of everyday life as a separate direction in historiography emerged in the twentieth century under the influence of French historians representing the “School of Annals” – Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre, Fernand Braudel. When studying the history of women’s everyday life, researchers consider environmental factors, the natural and geographical characteristics of the area where the women under study lived, their social environment, everyday objects, and the historical context, which includes the socio-political situation at a certain time. In contemporary international historiography, among the studies devoted to the history of women’s everyday life, the works that cover women’s everyday life in the conditions of overcoming difficulties are predominant. Also, common themes are those that cover the process of women’s emancipation, women’s struggle for equal rights with men and, as a result, changes in women’s everyday life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.