Male and Female Historians

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This paper looks at the many factors that influence how history is recorded with particular focus on how the different genders interpret and therefore record events in history. The paper sites Julie Des Jardins' book, "Women and the Historical Enterprise in America", as a resource supporting the view that the interpretation of historical events is affected by not only culture and personal bias but by gender as well, and points out that these differing influences must be kept in mind when reading about history.

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"What if more women either had more opportunity or were more recognized to write about equality between men and women in earlier days? Susan B. Anthony is the name long associated with the right for women to vote. However, there are many other women who pushed this cause whose names have not become well known. A History of the American Suffragist Movement by Doris Weatherford relates much of the information not known about this topic. For example, in 1637, way before the actual Suffragist Movement, a woman named Anne Hutchinson went against the male leadership and exercised her right to free speech. The theocrats who ran the newly founded colony of Massachusetts tried and convicted her of treason because her religious and feminist ideas did not agree with their strict theology. She was exiled with her 12 children, most of whom were killed by the Algonquins."

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