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Mar 5, 2018 · Women have brought countless amazing contributions to society throughout history, yet their accomplishments have often been passed over due to their gender. From successfully getting an astronaut into space to leading the suffragette movement, these women have done remarkable things.
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- María de Zayas (1590-1661) Dr. Margaret Boyle, an associate professor at Bowdoin College, tells Bustle, "I often take the opportunity to introduce María de Zayas.
- Margery Kempe (c.1383-c.1438) Art historian Nerissa Taysom, a research associate at the University of Bristol, tells Bustle, "Margery Kempe was born in the 1370s in Kings Lynn and wrote an extraordinary text now thought to be the earliest vernacular autobiography.
- Dr. Paulina Luisi (1875-1945) Dr. Christine Ehrick, a professor at the University of Louisville, says, "Dr. Paulina Luisi was a pioneering Uruguayan physicist and feminist.
- Soong Meiling (1898-2003) Dr. Kate Merkel-Hess, an associate professor at Penn State University, tells Bustle, "The former first lady of the Republic of China, Soong Meiling — better known in the West as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or May-ling Soong — has not been entirely forgotten, but she has been taken less seriously than her political influence warrants.
The neglect of women’s histories perpetuates the inequality of the past. The following chapters provide two examples of women from very different time periods who were leaders in their own right, but who we might not hear about in history class.
History was written mainly by men and about men's activities in the public sphere, especially in Africa—war, politics, diplomacy and administration. Women were usually excluded and, when mentioned, were usually portrayed in sex stereotypical roles such as wives, mothers, daughters, and mistresses. [1]
The rise of women’s and gender history has coincided with the arrival of women in positions of economic and political power. Think of your own mother, and the future she imagined for herself. Think of your daughters: the difference in expectations tells you everything.
Mar 29, 2019 · From an 80-year-old tiger trainer to the motorcycle queen of Miami, these are the stories of trailblazing women you likely didn’t learn about in school.
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Historiography - Women’s history: In the 19th century, women’s history would have been inconceivable, because “history” was so closely identified with war, diplomacy, and high politics—from all of which women were virtually excluded.
