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Women-centered History In the past, most people believed that the contributions women have made to US history have been ignored
Women-centered History In the past, most people believed that the contributions women have made to US history have been ignored
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Women-centered History
In the past, most people believed that the contributions women have made to US history have been ignored by historians. In recent years, a new view of women’s history has emerged. It’s called "women-centered history," which is forcing historians to re-interpret traditional pictures of key historical events.
I.【T1】_____【T1】______
— 1980s: subfield of history established
— Recent years: the view "women-centered history" emerged
— Now: Look at women’s contribution to history "【T2】_____"【T2】______
II. Premise
— Females played an important part in shaping US history
— Women are worth【T3】_____【T3】______
— Prior models of history:
A. "The【T4】_____ approach"【T4】______
1. Theory:
a)Men were the【T5】_____ historical leaders【T5】______
b)Women played a secondary role at every landmark historical event
2. Downside: neglects the【T6】_____ role of women【T6】______
in everyday family life
B. "The victim approach"
1. Theory: focusing on women’s【T7】_____ throughout history【T7】______
2. Downside: women’s plight is overly【T8】_____【T8】______
III. Balance
— Ask the question of "What【T9】_____?"【T9】______
— Portray a fairer and more complete picture of US women’s past
— Best show the balance of【T10】_____ between women’s plight【T10】______
and women’s power
— Compelled historians to see certain historical processes in【T11】_____【T11】______
IV. More【T12】______【T12】______
— Sub-categories of women’s history:
a)【T13】_____【T13】______
b)Social status
c)The history of women in【T14】_____ cultures【T14】______
— Class divisions, race divisions, ethnic divisions and religious divisions
— Women’s【T15】_____ other women【T15】______
【T4】
Women-centered History
Good morning, everyone. Today, we are going to talk about a new perspective of women’s history in the United States of America. First of all, I will talk about the background of women-centered history, followed by the premises and relevance of the women-centered approach. In the second half of my talk, I will talk about the balance between some prior approaches and more approaches to the study of US women history.
[1]First of all, the background of women’s history. Women’s history in the United States has been politically charged from the very beginning. Like other insurgent branches of history born in the 1960s, it exposed the implicit politics in what had previously passed as "objective" or "scholarly" inquiry. In the 1980s, however, women’s history has become a respected subfield within the discipline of history of America. Most scholars agree that women have been short-changed in United States history textbooks, because a woman has never been a US president or a commander—a major commander, anyway—in a war. These scholars argue that historians have overlooked or ignored the contributions women have made to US history. In recent years, though, a new view of women’s history has emerged. It’s called "women-centered history," and it’s forcing historians to re-interpret traditional pictures of key historical events. Historians began what became a flood of new scholarship on the social history of women which poses a growing challenge to historian tradition.[2]Now they’re looking at ways women contributed to history "behind the scenes," if you will. For instance, though they didn’t fight in wars or occupy the political stage, women formed organizations in places such as churches and clubs, where they discussed ideas and learned skills that would later lead to their emergence in the historical spotlight. Jane Addams is one good example of this. She founded houses for poor people in Chicago, and was an original member of the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU. She lobbied government for the rights of workers and women, which paid off in 1920 when women received the right to vote. In 1931, she became the first American women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now about the premise of this approach and its relevance to prior approaches.[3]Women-centered history starts with the premise that females played an important part in shaping US history, and that gender is a worthy historical distinction. This perspective is different from past models of studying women in US history.[4]One of the first models is called the contribution approach,[5]which concedes that men played the leading historical roles but demonstrates that women were vital "supporting actresses" at every landmark historical event.[6]While this was certainly true, the contribution approach has been criticized because it highlights only the bravest and brightest women, and it also neglects the social role of women in everyday family life.[7]A second historical model is called the victim approach, which emphasizes how men have oppressed women throughout history. Although obviously true, it tells only part of the story.[8]It also tends toward emotionalism, overly dramatizing women’s plight. Critics charge that under the victim approach, the only women who stand out are the unusual ones, such as the famous Salem "witches" of the seventeenth century. The rest are weak, helpless victims of a male-dominated world.
Thirdly, about the balance of the women-centered history. Women-centered history tends to balance the contribution and victim approaches. Instead of asking, "How have women helped men?" or "how have men oppressed women?",[9]it asks simply, "What have women done?" It does not bypass the realities of oppression, but it accords women the dignity of historical actors, of having survived, created, and shaped the ways change occurred. Now, in one sense it still gives only a partial picture, because it examines history from only one perspective, but in another sense it gives a fairer and more complete portrait of US women’s past than the previous two models. One historian, named Gerda Lerner, says women-centered history tells how women have survived and contributed in a male world on their own terms.[10]Ms. Lerner claims that women-centered history best portrays the balance of interaction between women’s oppression and women’s power. I’m not sure about that, but I do know one thing.[11]It has compelled historians to see certain historical processes in a new light, such as the nineteenth century temperance movement, and the prohibition movement of the twentieth century.
[12]Finally, some possible new approaches to look forward to. As feminist scholars keep studying the history of US women, more new approaches are likely to develop.[13]/[14]For example, there are still several sub-categories of women’s history to consider, such as labor history, social status, the history of women in minority cultures, and so on. There are also class divisions, race divisions, ethnic divisions and religious divisions.[15]Finally, there is the history of women’s interactions with other women, not just with men.
In sum, having a history is an essential prerequisite to claim the right of women to shape the future, and exploring the great variety of the past frees us from some of the cultural blinders that limit people’s sense of possibility in the present. We need a history that accords women the vision and the hope as well as dignity and that reveals women’s capacity to act and to effect change. That’s where women-centered approach comes in.
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contribution
解析
在妇女为中心的历史观被提出以前,有两种主要的历史观,其中第一种就是“贡献观”。答案为contribution。
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