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Women's History - Perpetuation of inequity
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    Posted: 13-Feb-2008 at 13:47
What I'm saying is that any women's study seems to yammer on about relatively minor things women have done (Mostly as wives to powerful men) and have added them all as contributions to history. They have created a new genre, 'womens history' which seems to be anything any woman has ever done. Studies of the emancipation, civil rights and suffragete movements are all worthy topics... but womens history and African American history? Why should they have an entire historical survey to themselves?
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Posts: 1551 		  Quote Dolphin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-Feb-2008 at 13:31
Gender study is not useless..But what about a men's history section? A section that deals solely with women's history can be seen as discrimatory, but if it serves to highlight an aspect of history that may be overlooked when all is viewed in the broader picture, then I don't see it as a problem. Why have any section that is not included under 'general world history', if it serves to specify and not take all other factors into consideration? Is the military history section discrimatory against pacifists?
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So you're saying that while studying women in history, we shouldn't study the interaction between genders as a separate topic? Maybe some historians tend to exagerate on it, but does it make the gender studies totally useless?
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Posts: 1409 		  Quote Parnell Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-Feb-2008 at 13:03
Historians have found it hard to study women's history. How is it tackled? The study of a minority group? Economic history?
 
Some historians, mainly women historians, tend to look on everything women have done in history and mark it up as a 'contribution' to history overall. Its the same women who strive for gender equality who pump up every little thing a woman has ever done and try to mark it out as exceptional who continue this discriminatory (Positive discrimination is still discrimination) study of history.
 
It is counterproductive to the cause of womens rights to study women as an outcasted minority; Only in the study of women in the context of history - IE, the study of history fullstop - is it fair. Is there really a need for this forum when all we are doing is perpetuating an historical injustice?
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