HUMA 1970 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rationality, French And Indian War, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
3 Feb 2014
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She finds two problems with the state of women"s and gender history: depoliticization of recent scholarship, neglect of female scholars, including women"s historians, of the pre-modern past and the lessons it holds for us. Aim of this essay is to highlight recent trends in the field of women"s and gender history in early north america and to demonstrate why it holds value for feminist academics and activists alike. Lucy kerber showed that women were indeed valued members of the new republic and were held to be important political agents despite not having access to formal political authority or power. Instead, women were important because in their role as mothers they shaped the next generation of republican citizens: in good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs by: kathleen brown. Analysis of how intersections of gender and race shaped several important developments in the history of slavery in virginia, including how cultural differences in gender roles informed the conflicts between native.
