HIS102Y1 Lecture : Lecture 1
Document Summary
Where social history started to develop as a field. Groups of women that met informally and discussed their personal experiences. Division of labor in their home, desertification with their jobs, not having a career, lack of opportunities for career development. Way we remember the past by how the stories are told. Telling the story of women s history in academia: intellectual frameworks meet feminist politics. Dominant force can reshape a narrative to reinforce their position of power. Movement from writing history from below, resistance form of history, dominant era gets critiqued. Liberal feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism (response to traditional marxism), Cultural feminism (women s qualities were actually superior to men), black feminism, third. Joan wallach scott on gender as a useful category of analysis (1989), experience . Masculinity studies, history of the body and sexuality, queer theory, postcolonial studies. Critical race studies, postcolonial studies, queer theory, area and ethnicity studies. Co-production of categories gender, race, class, ethnicity as variables.
