Medicine, Religion, and Women's History - Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire. By Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020. Pp. 152. $15.99. E-book.

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Luz Hernandez-Saenz
Keyword(s):  
Women's History ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
State University ◽  
Penn State ◽  
Women’S History

Feminism and the Education of Women

1976 ◽  
Vol 159 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Florence Howe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
State University ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Education Of Women ◽  
Kansas State University ◽  
Women’S History

This essay grew out of an attempt to discover, through a search in the archives of nine colleges and universities, whether curriculum could be found that was not male-centered and male-biased. While the search for curriculum that included women's history and achievements proved fruitless, the research illuminated controlling feminist assumptions behind three phases of women's education: the seminary movement that established secondary education for women; the movement that established elite women's colleges; and the current women's studies movement. The author also reviews some aspects of coeducation — at Oberlin and at Kansas State University — that reflect the first phase. In its first phase, feminists interested in the education of women claimed only that women needed higher education in order to teach young children, either as paid teachers (until they married) or as mothers. The curriculum offered to women was, therefore, different from (and less demanding than) that being offered to men in colleges at the time. Indeed, seminaries could not claim to be colleges for women. In its second phase, feminists interested in the education of women insisted that women could and should study what men did: the curriculum was the “men's curriculum.” Today, we have both tendencies present, along with a third, the seven-year old women's studies movement that for the first time in the history of higher education for women has challenged male hegemony over the curriculum and over knowledge itself. The movement aims to transform the curriculum through the study of women's history, achievements, status, and potential.

Writing Women into the Russian Revolution of 1917

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-231
Author(s):  
Adele Lindenmeyr
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
The Revolution

Abstract While scholarship on Russian women’s history has flourished in recent decades, the participation of women in the 1917 Revolution continues to be under-researched and poorly understood. This article explores various reasons for the marginalization of women in studies of the revolution. It reviews promising recent research that recovers women’s experiences and voices, including work on women in the wartime labor force and soldiers’ wives, and argues for the usefulness of a feminist and gendered approach to studying 1917.

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