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"Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16 (1991): 522–549 Taufer, Alison. "The Only Good Amazon is a Converted Amazon: The Woman Warrior and Christianity in the Amadís Cycle" in Playing With Gender: A Renaissance Pursuit ed. by Jean R. Brink et al. pp. 35–51.
The querelle des femmes or "dispute of women" originally referred to a literary genre and broad debate, that originated in humanistic and aristocratic circles in the Italian peninsula and France during the early modern period, regarding the nature of women, their capabilities, and whether they should be permitted to study, write, or govern in the same manner as men.
The women attacked both the Romans and the Ambrones who tried to desert. [143] 102/101 BCE [144] – General Marius of the Romans fought the Teutonic Cimbrians. Cimbrian women accompanied their men into war, created a line in battle with their wagons and fought with poles and lances, [145] as well as staves, stones, and swords. [146]
Feminist sociology is an interdisciplinary ... This disregarding of the issues of intersectional women throughout the history of the feminist movement is due largely ...
This time was marked by increased female enrolment in higher education, the establishment of academic women's studies courses and departments, [190] and feminist ideology in other related fields, such as politics, sociology, history, and literature. [15] This academic shift in interests questioned the status quo, and its standards and authority ...
Here's the history and meaning behind Women's history month colors: purple, green, white and gold. Experts explain the fascinating origins.
Inherent in the study of women's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimised or ignored the contributions of women to different fields and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, women's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the ...
Colonial rule, they claimed, would liberate these women from the oppression of their male counterparts. [ 2 ] Palestinian-American historian Edward Said characterizes this phenomenon as part of " Orientalism " and claims that European scholarship, culture, and society perpetuated stereotypes about non-Western civilizations to justify control ...