ISBN:
9781317877103
,
1317877101
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (165 pages)
Series Statement:
Making History
DDC:
305.409
Keywords:
Women History
;
Historiography
;
History Methodology
;
Electronic books History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Why are most famous historians men? How have women changed the writing of history over the last decades? What lives and stories have been hidden from history?Until recently history was predominantly the domain of men. That men were the authors of our past meant that in many cases only half of the story was told. In the second half of the twentieth century, however, the picture changed. Women, and indeed some men as well, started to address gender history. Women had been investigated historically before, but never with such intensity, nor such breadth. The impetus for this writing was
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