The article surveys the development of historical research on women: from women's history to history of gender. It focuses on the shifts in theory and goes into the implications for history at large. More specificall, it discusses the use of post-structuralist theory and method, using Joan W. Scott's Gender and the politics of history (1989) as an example. The Author argues that, so far, historians have not made full use of post-structuralism. As a result, history of gender still has to be written.