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American women biographers (1 C, 308 P) Pages in category "American women historians" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,225 total.
Elisabeth van Houts (born 1952) – medieval European history; Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history; Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker (born 1940) – specialist in the position of women during the Middle Ages; Mayke de Jong (born 1950) – political and religious history of the early Middle Ages; Eileen Power (1889 ...
Historians who studied women's history, the study of the role that women have played in history. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievement over a period of time, the examination of individual and groups of women of historical significance, and the effect that historical events have had on women.
Nancy Falik Cott (born November 8, 1945) is an American historian and professor who has taught at Yale and Harvard universities, specializing in gender topics in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Historian Norra Cardillo said she is especially interested in the ways in which 17th-century women defied societal expectations and resisted British authority.
The history of women in the United States encompasses the lived experiences and contributions of women throughout American history. The earliest women living in what is now the United States were Native Americans. European women arrived in the 17th century and brought with them European culture and values.
According to historian Joan Scott, conflict occurred between Women's History historians and other historians in a number of ways. [6] In the American Historical Association , when feminists argued that female historians were treated unequally within the field and underrepresented in the association, they were essentially leveling charges of ...
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.