Women's history
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"And so it often happens that ploughmen and mechanics, training their conscience by the law, beat their wives on principle, in order to break them. A carter, showing his whip, said, " See here, my family peace-maker!"--The Moral History of Women (1860) by Ernest Legouvé and John Williamson Palmer |
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Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history, together with the methods needed to study women. It includes the study of the history of the growth (and decline) of woman's rights throughout recorded history, the examination of individual woman of historical significance, and the effect that historical events have had on women. Inherent in the study of woman's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimized or ignored the contributions of women and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, woman's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the traditional historical consensus.
The main centers of scholarship have been the U.S. and Britain, where 'second wave' feminist historians, influenced by the new approaches promoted by social history, led the way. As activists in the women's liberation, discussing and analyzing the oppression and inequalities they experienced as women, they felt it imperative to find out about the lives of their foremothers -- and found very little scholarship in print. History was written mainly by men and about men's activities in the public sphere -- war, politics, diplomacy and administration. Women were usually excluded and, when mentioned, were usually portrayed in sex-stereotypical roles, such as wives, mothers, daughters and mistresses. History was value laden in regard to what was considered historically 'worthy'.
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See also
The following is a list of issues in Wikipedia either about women's history, or containing relevant information, often in a "History" section.
Lists
- List of women's organizations
- List of current and historical women's universities and colleges
- A women's college is an institution of higher education where enrollment is all-female. Where institutions have become coeducational, this is noted, along with the year the enrollment policy was changed.
- List of feminists
- List of 20th century women artists
- Women's History Month
- March is a month to celebrate the Women's history and International Women's Day.
General
Political and legal
- Equal Rights Amendment
- A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which would have guaranteed equal rights under law for Americans regardless of gender.
- Women's suffrage.
- Suffragette
- Suffragettes are members of the women's suffrage movement in the Britain. Suffragist is a more general term for members of the movement, whether radical or conservative. American women preferred "suffragist" because of the violent connotations of the British "suffragette".
- A History of Woman Suffrage
- A history book of the suffrage movement, primarily in the United States, composed of six volumes from 1887 to 1922.
- Men's League for Women's Suffrage
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization in the US and worldwide.
- The Subjection of Women
- This is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, stating his views in favor of a much wider selection of people being allowed to vote.
Sexuality
- Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
- It concerns the culture, knowledge, and references shared by various people by virtue of their membership in a minorities or their state of being transgendered.
- Effeminacy
- Effeminacy is character trait of a male showing femininity, unmanliness, womanliness, weakness, softness and/or a delicacy, which contradicts traditional masculine, male gender roles.
Research
- Schlesinger Library
- The Women's Library (London)
- GENESIS
- Guide to sources for women's history in the British Isles
Other
- Demography
- Demography is the study of human population dynamics. It encompasses the study of the size, structure and distribution of populations, and how populations change over time due to births, deaths, migration and aging.
- Herstory
- History of feminism
- Women in Family history
