HIST2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Joan Wallach Scott, Extortion, Intersex
Week 9 HIST Lecture
Exam:
• 3-9th October
• 6 texts – choose one
• 800 commentaries
• Contextualise
• Minimal referencing – uote fo the tet ut dot eseah
• How does this text imply and express a particular approach to the past? How has the work of
the historian been received by other scholars in the field?
Gender in history:
• Dominated by men – male perspective to the past
• Neglect of women as historical actors – reflect male POV
• Geat as aft – male interest
• Sources produced by men
• Gendered
• Not ale to full udestad oes histoial epeiee
Intro:
• Rise of interest in women
• Well-known scholars
• The tu to gede
• Category of sex (biology) different from gender (psychological)
• Social category imposed of a sexed body
• Gender changes over time and varies with culture
• Changed women status in society
• Usuall dates fo the 9s – second wave feminism
• Revolutionary change – easy to take for granted
• University usually male concerns – battle for equality fought
• However, women historians still around (has social status and power)
• Dynastic history is form of great-man history (often include great women)
Works:
• Friederich Engels – The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) – go-to
Maist lassi fo oe, ot fied se ut gede hage oe tie, oes plae
relates to the private property, ability to pass on family wealth, key to the emancipation of
women, critiqued on empirical grounds
• Mary Beard – Women as a Force in History: a Study in Traditions and Realities (1946) –
old ete fo oes ahies, aalsig Elopedia Bitaia fo a oes
pespetie, eglet o etotio of oes ole i histo
• Simone de Beauvoir – Le Deuxieme Sexe (the second sex) (1949/53) – writing more
expensive history, not gender is constructed socially overtime, not to do with actual sex
• Joan Kelly – Women, History and Theory (1984) – historian of renaissance, campaigned for
womens epodutie ights, ai uestios as if oe had a eaissae, egulatio
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