Usha Chandran Article Summary

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In this article Usha Chandran focuses on the woman’s role in history throughout the world. She states that gender discrimination against women is deeply rooted in culture and tradition around the world. She goes on to say the evolution of woman has improved drastically up to the present equality in politics and socially is still something that excludes woman to some extent. The reasoning for this is that discrimination is so deep rooted in religion, social and family relations. The author even says in ingrained in language, education and the media as well. Another important emphasis the author makes is that even women have internalized their image inferior to men also and that is a reason why change and equality is so difficult and slow …show more content…

Snyder mentions a workshop that took place in 2011 named William and Mary Quarterly and USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute workshop. This workshop was meant to study women in early America and early trends to place women as subjects in history beyond the roles or wives and mothers. Snyder says that in this workshop papers were offered that placed women in imperial expansion and native claims to territory. The author mentions that in this workshop there is a push to ad women into the narrative of history as a force because women have made and shaped history. The author also mentions some reasons of importance in studying women in history. Some reasons being that women were subject distinctly to laws, religion, labor, politics, and culture. Through these systems, women were then subject to the authority of men as fathers, brothers, and husbands. Overall the author’s message is that it is important to study women in early history because they were treated different from men and they faced many different challenges that has shaped the history of early America and learning about women as a group can help us challenge what we already know about early America. According Merry Wiesner Hanks, in this article she states that including women and gender in World History has been tremendously slow and has been restricted to a small number of themes. Hanks mentions that according to Manning, the author of Navigating World History, incorporating women into world history has been slow because a women’s lives are played out in private within their family as appose to men that live their lives in the public eye like in politics. Hanks says the Manning contests that the studying of gender history interferes with the views of family and social values. Hanks says many historians today think otherwise and believe that the history of women differs from the history of family. The author’s

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