what i found, without a lot of help from contemporary historians, is that the 20th century got in the way. feminism got in the way big time. and then postmodernism made it even worse.
but mostly i thought that this might be helpful in either class to talk about women’s history — basically as evidence [...]
It has come to that time of the day where I catch myself five minutes and several paragraphs into a page and I haven’t read a word.
Today I read the majority of Meghan Roe’s graduate thesis which is a very good simulation/imitation of Michele le Doeuff but not entirely useful to my project. Her [...]
yes…i am back with the program…
we are essentially–and once again–resurrecting a project from the past. i didn’t see that before in these enlightenment writers. they are indeed furthering the work of dePizan, the difference is that the cultural and intellectual climate has “evolved” another four hundred years…but the work is very similar, and [...]
i woke up this morning thinking that i need to search the 19th century. what women were reading the 19th c. Germans? who else, from other parts of Europe, was thinking about history as an autonomous philosophical inquiry? what women–from any era–were trying to answer the question “what is history?” or “what [...]
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
“This is part of the reason why intellectual history,
though it grounds the discipline, is often pushed aside in departments.”
Would you mind either expanding this a few sentences or pointing me towards some sources? Particularly “though it grounds the discipline”?
I have been thinking this too which is what brought me to my questions regarding women’s [...]
Monday, February 26, 2007
I am trying to locate a philosophy of women’s history for a research project with Gina and am having a difficult time. It seems like neither women’s historians nor feminist theorists have been able to define or construct what it is they are doing (on the topic of history) and/or why…obviously this may be [...]
Thursday, February 15, 2007
i have been starting to notice the gender biases in contemporary learned circles…i.e. dissertations listings in the history depts of universities, popular intellectual/literati publications like Harpers and the new Yorker etc…and of course le doeuff has evidences of her own…
Ranft has got me thinking…in order to include women in western intellectual history the definitions of [...]
I am interested in the history of knowledge, its production and transmission, but more importantly its codification and institutionalization. How does something earn its existence as something that is known? How do these smaller occurrences of things-becoming-known then turn into bodies of knowledge? It is here that I suspect there is room for politics. It [...]
Saturday, February 3, 2007
perhaps I am trying–in foucaultian terms–to come up with a geneology of knowledge…specifically a geneology of the gendering of knowledge…how have women been excluded from this enterprise…where have they succeeded in agreeing on their own…
and, incidentally, what is human knowledge? does this exist or is all knowledge politicized somehow?
I am off to a very slow start with this project for a couple of reasons. While trying to take a few more days to prepare for the GRE on Monday I wanted to jot down some of my initial ideas, whims, and hunches about this project. I will take this journal entry as an [...]