HIST2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Joan Wallach Scott, Extortion, Intersex

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10 May 2018
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Week 9 HIST Lecture
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3-9th October
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Contextualise
Minimal referencing uote fo the tet ut dot eseah
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
Geat as aft male interest
Sources produced by men
Gendered
Not ale to full udestad oes histoial epeiee
Intro:
Rise of interest in women
Well-known scholars
The tu to gede
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 fo the 9s – 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
Maist lassi fo oe, ot fied  se ut gede hage oe tie, oes plae
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)
old ete fo oes ahies, aalsig Elopedia Bitaia fo a oes
pespetie, eglet o etotio of oes 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
womens epodutie ights, ai uestios as if oe had a eaissae, egulatio
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