Daily life and subjectivity: inversions in perspectives of the history of politics and gender

Abstract

In the 1960s, a decade marked by profound structural and cultural transformation, Italian historiography triggered a debate that questioned established interpretative paradigms in order to pave the way for new fields of research and further perspectives. Influenced by Transalpine theoretical debate, social history and microhistory emerged. In light of these events ‒the basis for the entry of subjectivity into historical research‒ here I examine the main cornerstones of the current wealth of research based on self-narrative sources. Although this historiographical field first developed in the context of the history of migration and the First World War, achieving valuable and original results concerning these major events, the present contribution focuses on the principal fields of study addressed by the history of politics and gender.