{"id":195,"date":"2007-11-06T15:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T19:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/history-and-sexism\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T19:15:17","slug":"history-and-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/history-and-sexism\/","title":{"rendered":"History and Sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It could just be a coincidence.  <\/p>\n<p>This semester I run two of ten tutorials for a very large first-year world history class that covers the years 1914-1945.  There is an acknowledged Western perspective.  <\/p>\n<p>Last week there was one lecture (50 minutes) assigned to the topic &#8220;Women in the 20th Century.&#8221;  This had been rubbing me since the beginning of the semester when I first got the syllabus.  I had heard of the &#8220;add women &#038; stir&#8221; approach to women&#8217;s history but had never seen it so boldly in action.  This week the students read the first (and only) readings for the course written by women.<\/p>\n<p>Message here:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>women only write about women<\/li>\n<li>women don&#8217;t write about the world in the 20th century<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t where it ended.  The prof wrote to the assistants a day before labs to say that covering only a few of the discussion questions would be adequate and mainly to concentrate on returning student papers and exams.  <\/p>\n<p>Message here:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it is okay to dismiss the small bit of women&#8217;s history\/feminist history included in the course <\/li>\n<li>what women say isn&#8217;t important &#8212; what women say isn&#8217;t as important as what men say<\/li>\n<li>women are not a significant part of 20th century history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course this is nothing new.  History (patriarchy for that matter) is full of dismissing women&#8217;s thoughts, writings, and activities. I know I was sheltered living for four years inside of Women&#8217;s Studies, thinking that as I was opening my eyes to it so was the rest of the world.  Since moving to the discipline of History I am frequently reminded why we still need women&#8217;s history.  <\/p>\n<p>Until women&#8217;s history is integrated in the survey course there is no equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could just be a coincidence. This semester I run two of ten tutorials for a very large first-year world history class that covers the years 1914-1945. There is an acknowledged Western perspective. Last week there was one lecture (50 minutes) assigned to the topic &#8220;Women in the 20th Century.&#8221; This had been rubbing me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,25,17,12,33,40,9,28,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}