scholarly journals Gender Bias in Historiography of Indonesia and the Writing of Women's History

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Mutiah Amini
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
As If

<p>This paper discusses gender bias within the Indonesian historiography tradition. Various historical literature records that all major events in Indonesian history–as a nation–are masculine and strongly dominated by male narratives. There is no space for women to be present in the narratives of the past. As if the history of Indonesia is a history of men, whereas if critical research is done then women such as men have a past narrative that is also important. Women are present and give meaning to the development of the nation's history. This matter is absent in Indonesian historiography. The strength of gender bias in the historiography of Indonesia can not be separated from the strong patriarchal culture in the life of society. Thus the gender bias ultimately forms a canon, so this is then reproduced from generation to generation. This article argues that critical research by revealing a new fact is a power to change gender bias in Indonesian historiography.</p><p> </p>

Methodist Domesticity and Middle-Class Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century England

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 323-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tosh
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dominant Influence ◽  
Women’S History

The history of the family, at least for the nineteenth century, has reached a certain maturity. Though not yet incorporated into mainstream history – that would be too much to expect – it now boasts a considerable specialist literature and some useful general surveys. Undoubtedly the driving force has been the aspiration of women’s history to reconstruct the lives of women in the past. Now that the personal records of women are being studied with such attention, there is a wealth of insights into their experience as daughters, wives, and widows. Jeanne Peterson’s account of the Paget family and their circle in Victorian England is a typical example. For the nineteenth-century women’s historian, there is the added bonus that this was the period when the claims of women to have the dominant influence in the family were taken most seriously – as witness the persistent appeal of the Angel Mother. Hence to research the history of the Victorian family promises results which will feature women as agents, and not merely as victims of patriarchal oppression.

A Place Where Women Can Feel Valued, or Why Academic Professional Associations Matter, Especially for Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-75
Author(s):  
Melissa Walker
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
American South ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Individual Female ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women Historians ◽  
The American South ◽  
Women’S History

The Southern Association for Women Historians provided a place where female historians felt validated and emboldened. By providing this space over the past five decades, the SAWH has done two important things: advance the careers of individual female historians while encouraging, developing, and legitimizing the study of women’s history. In the process, as several of the scholars here have already suggested, the SAWH helped transform the historiography of the American South by refocusing many of the lenses that scholars have trained on the past. The history of the SAWH demonstrates the crucial role that scholarly professional associations play in shaping fields of knowledge and the careers of individual scholars.

Interlocutors? Men Authoring Women’s History in the 1890s

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
French History ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Subject Choice ◽  
Islamic Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

This chapter juxtaposes Fawwaz’s use of female biography with selected works by male contemporaries that include biographies or mention of famous women. These comprise a treatise on marriage by Hamza Fathallah; a translation of a French history of ancient Egypt focusing on women, authored by Georges Paturet and translated by ‘Ali Jalal; a history of pre-Islamic women by Habib al-Zayyat al-Dimashqi; and a marriage and conduct manual for young men, by Husayn Fawzi. They all differ markedly from Fawwaz’s dictionary, in emphasis and subject choice. It is fascinating that several Arab male intellectuals of the late 19th century wrote on the ancient history of women in the region, but what kinds of messages did their works yield?

Response

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-480
Author(s):  
Louise A. Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Women's History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Answering Questions ◽  
Women’S History

Judith Bennett has persuaded me that in the oral version of this paper I conflated five points: (1) All women’s history has a feminist motivation and message. (2) Descriptive women’s history has discovered valuable evidence about women in the past; this has now been accepted as historical “fact.” (3) Sociological use of gender as a concept adds an analytical edge to descriptive accounts. (4) Social history that makes gender and women’s experience problematic and analyzes it systematically can add to the achievements of descriptive/interpretive women’s history. (5) Both types of women’s history (descriptive/interpretive and analytical) can only benefit from explicitly demonstrating the ways in which their findings contribute to answering questions already on the historical agenda. I have revised my paper somewhat to clarify these points.

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