Gender and Historical Analysis

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This paper relates that gender as a category of historical analysis has traditionally been ignored by historians, anthropologists and sociologists. The author analyzes male and female gender roles in historical Japan. The paper concludes that gender was very flexible for males and very rigid for females.

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"Gender as a category of historical analysis has traditionally been ignored by historians, anthropologists and sociologists. When discussing gender in "Gender in a Companion to American Thought", R.W. Fox and J.T. Kloppenburg explain, "Its contemporary scholarly use dates largely from the 1970s, when path-breaking feminist scholars began to distinguish between the biological characteristics they labeled `sex' and the attitudes, behaviors, and social structures they labeled `gender' "(Fox and Kloppenburg 272-273). This proves that gender is a much more complicated concept then originally thought."

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