Lecture 6 - Excerpt

Prof: One historian, named Gerda Lerner, says women-centered history tells how women have survived and contributed in a male world “on their own terms.” Ms. Lerner claims that women-centered history best portrays the balance of interaction between women’s oppression and women’s power. I’m not sure about that, but I do know one thing. It has compelled historians to see certain historical processes in a new light, such as the, eight – er, nineteenth century temperance movement, and the prohibition movement of the twentieth century.