Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Claudette Colvin, Audre Lorde, Heritage Minutes
4 Oct 2018
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Why are there no great women authors on the shelf beside. Doing women"s history often means doing history in unorthodox ways. It also means reframing history- how can we think about history in a way that makes sense for women and their experiences. "when i started working on women"s history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn"t think that women had a history worth knowing . Declaration of sentiments and resolutions- seneca falls 1848. They were trying to show that women had never given their consent to being governed by men. This was a radical act the most shocking and unnatural event ever recorded. This was a radical act the most shocking and unnatural event ever recorded in the history of womanity. (oneida whig) In most places women didn"t exist as legal entities in their own right, especially if they were married. He has made he in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
