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Constructing History
Quick questions on Feminist and gender history for HSC History Extension
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Feminist and gender history is a powerful example of how the historian's standpoint shapes the history. By exposing that the apparently neutral category of the historical actor was tacitly male, it demonstrated that every history embeds assumptions about who matters. It also illustrates the move from recovery to theory that recurs across modern historiography: a marginalised group is first added, then the very framework that marginalised them is rethought. This makes it ideal evidence for the key questions about who historians are, what counts as significant, and why approaches change.
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