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Historiography went throughout massive changes in 20th century, especially after the Second World War. Old political history was replaced, or at least challenged, by social and cultural histories, while historiography became increasingly open toward other social sciences and humanities. Historians started to be aware of other scholars� theorizing on many important questions, and the historians slowly joined the other scholars� debates. Although many historians were reluctant to change, especially to include wider social theories in their works, history as a discipline was significantly affected by different approaches, methodologies, and theories developed in other disciplines. Broadening perspectives toward theoretical innovations has brought new fields into historiography, most notably gender history, and, most recently, global history. Gender studies were brought to historiography in the form of women�s histories during the 1980s. They followed general trends in gender studies closely, although historians were slow in accepting and applying recent gender theories. However, gender studies was an important new field, as it brought fifty percent of the population into the focus of historical studies that were previously generally gender blind or simply masculine. Gender historians had the difficult job of showing why gender is a useful category for historical analysis, and the work of Joan Scott was crucial in this regard.1 The narrow understanding of gender studies as women�s studies remained in historiography until the 1990s, and in many academic communities, women�s studies