Women, Gender and Power: A new history
The history you know is missing half the story. By presenting a picture of the past without any women, the histories we teach today prop up the male monopoly over definition. This book gives students and readers new points of reference for understanding women, gender and power. This is history through the female gaze. Each chapter homes in on a key point in history: Moments of reckoning for gender and power. Roads open to women. Others close. Power gets used against them in new ways. These case studies exemplify the ways women navigated the rules of power around an important activity: For instance, writing in late antiquity, becoming citizens in 1848 London, planning pregnancy in 1920’s New York City, and resisting globalization in 1979 Tehran. These are stories about how women make choices given the limitations and opportunities available. Taken as a whole, they offer readers radically new ways of understanding how gender and power shape one another, and how history shapes power. The materials
Global & European History
Introduction: Women, gender, power and history
Reading (for students & Teachers)
Intro activity
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Unit Overview
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150,000 years ago, Eastern Africa – Standing up and giving birth
1500 BCE, Myceneae – Working
200 CE, Rome – Speaking in Public
415, Alexandria – Writing
1186, The Rhineland– Building local ties
1456, Southern England– Doing business
1615, Florence – Telling the truth
1699, Beauvais – Negotiating prices
1789, Paris – Holding leaders accountable
1796, St. Petersburg – Ruling
1848, London & Evanston, North Carolina – Becoming citizens
1872, Manchester– Choosing a husband
1917, St. Petersburg – Fighting wars
1924, New York City – Planning pregnancy
1961, San Francisco – Choosing & Refusing Sex
1979, Tehran – Resisting globalization
2020, Washington, DC – Keeping the peace