HIS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canadian Historical Association, Second-Wave Feminism
27 Mar 2015
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Lecture 9 - women"s history and history of gender. Politics is more objective than history: how might politics affect history, production of history for the purpose of propaganda but that is distorted history. 45 - scott discusses three dimensions of politics: politics is government (parliament, ministries in todays time, but back then it was monarchies and kings, politics is the relation of power or how people change relations of power. Second wave feminism women wanting to study women"s agency (politics) Encouraging women to get ph d"s: women started to educate more, more in university which made them more interested in writing about women"s history, women started seeing themselves as a category in historical research. There were women"s history, but they were very specific. 54: within the discipline of history, social history was developing as a whole pluralization of history looking at various types of actors which led researchers to look at women as an example.
