HIST 280 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gender History, Feminist History, Male Prostitution
5 Apr 2018
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Module 1: sonya rose what is gender history: the term gender: Scholars see gender as the perceived differences between and ideas about women and men, male and female. What it means to man and what it means to be woman= definitions or understandings of masculinity and femininity, male and female identities = all products of culture. It was previously believed that the differences between men and women were based in nature and that these natural differences" accounted for or explained the observed differences in women"s and men"s social positions and social relationships. The hierarchical nature of the relations between men and women was assumed and not questioned. Joan sangster: beyond dichotomies: re-assessing gender history/women"s history. Women"s history marginalizes" women, while gender history offers a superior and more holistic" analysis. = only gender history can truly promote a feminist interpretation: feminist history is more important than women"s history [for] feminist history is about gender, not women .
