March 5, 2007
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW A WORD, IDIOM OR PHRASE ORIGINATED IN THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE?
The month of March is full of special events, many of which get a lot more play than Women’s History Month. As I started to research this subject, it became very apparent that for centuries the role played by women in history has been under appreciated, as well as under reported.
Women’s history was rarely the subject of serious study in the United States before 1970. Since then the field has undergone a metamorphosis, because several significant factors, such as the following, contributed to the emergence of women’s history.
- The women’s movement of the 1960s, which began to question their apparently invisibility in our history texts.
- The feminist movement raised the aspirations and opportunities of women, which produced a growing number of female historians.
- Aroused by feminist charges, historians began to trace the origins of women’s second-class status.
For more detail, please read the attached pdf posting. As always, I hope this stimulates your own research, and I would appreciate your feedback.
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