Feminism holds more weight than other areas when talking about American women’s transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Research and writing about American women’s history is closely related to feminist politics and the implications they had for the discipline of history. Feminism talks about a time when women sought to question the inequalities that they experienced and turned to history to ask for answers to their oppression learn from past challenges. The activists that started the first women’s movements in the late nineteenth and twentieth century argued that women’s role were not natural and universal, but rather socially construed and constructed via particular historical contexts. These feminists revealed that women were significantly left out in standard historical texts and became motivated to start their histories. A momentous and considerable crop of female authors, for example, Barbara Hutchins, Alice Clark, and Barbara Drake, began to emerge and established various studies on women’s work, trade unionist movements and political activities (Hannam).
Political suffrage campaigners seized different opportunities in construction of an important narrative campaign that would lead to victory in the vote and create a long lasting impression on subsequent generations. Suffrage movements formed in the 1920s paid homage to women’s roles in society and collected data about the militant and constitutional features of the movement. Women’s history started to be written and kindled interest in their intellectual rights. The women liberation movements of the 1960s sought to establish women’s active role in society and contributed to the publishing of various women writer’s works on their employment, trade unionism, women organizations, sexuality, and family life. These writings sought to challenge conventional wisdom on women’s lives and what should be significant in their portrayal throughout history. Feminists highlighted various women’s specific experiences in the family institution and drew attention to the importance of workplace sexual divisions and the significance of personal relationships between their private and public lives. Feminists put women back into a much familiar framework and reconfigured the general view that history had on women.
References
Hannam, June. "Women's History, Feminist History". Making History 2008. Web. 1 Mar. 2016.
