What is womens history Gender as a category of analysis

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What is womens history?Gender as a category of
analysis historical method

• Clark A. Pomerleau, Ph.D.
• Wooten 234

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Note card

• Registered name ( what you wish to be called)
• Email address (Optional phone number)
• Year in school
• Major and minor if any
• Most recent history courses (high school counts)
• Why you chose this course

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Womens History as an Inherently Feminist Project

• Mid-19th-century Suffragists Preservation
• 1930s Historian Mary Beard
• 1970s Feminist Movement

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• Gerda Lerners
• stages of womens history
• compensatory
• contribution
• reconfiguring
• gender as a social construction
• other identity factors with social meanings
• reexamine traditional periodization

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19th-Century Ideologies Realities for Gender,
Work, and Race

• Distinguishing Women from Men Elite Ideology
• Embodied gender
• Leisure and reproduction
• 1873 Dr. Edward Clarke
• 1874 Elizabeth Phelps

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• White, native-born, middle-class ? desire
• Hypermasculinity in leisure Wellesley football,
  Theodore Roosevelt
• Primitivism for white men Improved Order of Red
  Men

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What do types of sources tell us?

• Historians essay
• Image photograph, painting, mural, cartoon,
  poster
• Tract, manifesto, flyer/leaflet
• Speech
• Letter of Protest
• Memoir
• Newspaper account
• Trial testimony, law court decision
• Organizations goals
• Government study
• Psychological/sociological determination from the
  time
• Statistics