History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.