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The History of Gender

2021
This chapter traces the history of gender. Most people believe that gender equality is a product of modern times and that the gap between the sexes has decreased due to technology, advocacy, and contemporary social demands.
Laura Erickson-Schroth, Benjamin Davis
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History and the challenge of gender history∗

Rethinking History, 1997
Abstract This essay provides a critical assessment of debates within and about gender history. The fruitfulness of the field is absolutely and unquestionably great. Women's history, now mutating into gender history, is notably broadening and enriching historical studies. That is incontestable. But success has also posed challenges. Despite the initial ‘
Penelope J Corfield
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The Gendering of History in She

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 1999
H. Rider Haggard's 1887 She is not merely an intriguing exemplar of the male quest romances that mirrored and furthered imperialist initiatives; as critics have persuasively asserted, She is also a thinly disguised allegorical admonition to recognize and dispel the threat that the New Woman posed to late-Victorian society. The novel's thematic valences
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Rationality, Gender, and History

Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1994
L'A. defend la these d'une complementarite integrale des sexes fondee sur les traditions catholique, aristotelicienne et scolastique. En ce sens, la crise epistemologique causee par l'influence croissante des femmes offre la possibilite d'une reformulation des fondements aristoteliciens de la theorie de la rationalite et des ...
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Gender, Women's History, and Social History

Social Science History, 1989
Recently, I attended a seminar at which a historian of women presented a dazzling interpretation of the polemical writing of Olympe de Gouges and its (not to mention her) reception during the French Revolution. A crusty old historian of the Revolution rose during the question period and inquired, in his own eastern twang, “Now that I know that women ...
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Gender History

2022
Cinsiyet tarihi, yirminci yüzyılın ikinci yarısında başlayan, kendi anlamı olan yeni bir tarih türüdür. Toplumsal yaşam açısından cinsiyet hem erkeğe hem de kadına aittir; ancak 20. yüzyılın ikinci yarısından itibaren bu terim daha çok kadın yaşamını ve tarihini tanımlamak için kullanılmaktadır. 20. yüzyılın ikinci yarısına kadar tarih erkeklik üzerine
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Gendered histories, gendered fields

2023
Doing empirical research in the field of memory studies asks researchers to engage with communities other than their own, sometimes in unfamiliar areas. Such engagements might be welcome and inspiring, but can also be notably challenging. In particular, memory cultures of traditionally ‘masculine’ realms such as war and sports may (re)produce ...
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