Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scott said that the study of history should be altered so that students would recognize the methods of interpretation that have traditionally framed the understanding of history. This approach would allow students to look for a different means of analyzing history...
...goal should be to integrate women into the discipline even though the issue of "women" is separate, Scott said. She said she believed women's history today should not and does not document women's struggle or oppression. Instead, it "focuses on positive aspects of women's experience...
...Scott said that the study of women's history grew out of the feminist movement of the 1960s. During this time, women--partially stimulated by the Civil Rights movement--called for an end to subordination and demanded equal rights, legally, professionally and personally...
During the mid 1970s and 1980s, Scott said, the political movement evolved from demands for equal treatment to an emphasis on recognizing and accepting gender difference...
...Women's history is not just a reflection of feminism," said Scott, adding feminism today "has not disappeared. Its existence has just changed...