What is feminist historiography?

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Feminist historiography means the restructuring of the history from the perspective of women. The feminist historiography emphasised not only on the inclusion of women in history but also on the rethinking of the male dominated perspective of history. It drove historical research to focus in depth on various aspects of women’s life such as their employment, their role in trade union, institutions working for their cause, their family life, etc.

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Feminist historiography means restructuring (rewriting) history from the perspective of women. Earlier, history was written mostly from a male point of view and women's role was largely ignored. The writings of Simone de Beauvoir of France helped in establishing the fundamentals of feminism. Feminist historiography stressed two things: including women in history, and rethinking the male-dominated perspective of history. It led historians to study in depth many aspects of women's lives, such as their employment, their role in trade unions, institutions working for their cause and their family life. In historical writing after 1990, women were portrayed as an independent social class. In India, writers like Tarabai Shinde ('Stripurush Tulana', 1882) and Pandita Ramabai, and later scholars like Meera Kosambi and Sharmila Rege, contributed to feminist writing.

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