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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (52089)	6/30/2002 12:09:57 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

OK - here ... "Yet another area of history dictated entirely by male experience is the concept of periodization, or the way in which we section periods in history. The assumption of traditional periodization is that these periods are universal, but not surprisingly they are mainly derived from political history. Since women have been excluded from political power and from military decision making, "the irrelevance of periodization based on military and political developments to their historical experience should have been predictable...." (Lerner 6). For instance, during the Dark Ages women enjoyed wider literacy and access to education than men did, so the Dark Ages were probably only Dark for men. The Renaissance may have marked a rebirth of science and knowledge for men, but women at this time were almost entirely barred from acquiring the education they were once able to access. Lerner suggests that it would be more appropriate to periodize women's history in two stages; "the transition from agricultural to industrializing society and then again the transition to fully developed industrial society" (Lerner 7). These periods in history marked massive changes in the lives of women as they related to their status in the family and as workers. If we are to adequately study the lives of women, we must be prepared to develop new ways of defining their experiences that are not based upon a male-oriented world view." Gilda Lerner