{"id":453,"date":"2007-12-04T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2007-12-04T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T15:52:00","slug":"do-we-still-need-womens-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/12\/04\/do-we-still-need-womens-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Do We Still Need Women’s History?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feminist historian Alice Kessler-Harris has an article provocatively titled “Do We Still Need Women’s History?” running in the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> (which I can’t, ahem, read because I don’t have a dang subscription). But here’s a tease:<\/p>\n

In the spring of 2007, the Organization of American Historians (the nation’s premier body of professional historians, teachers, and public advocates of U.S. history) asked me to take a look at what had changed in the profession with regard to the history of women and gender over the 100-year life span of the group. My findings would…<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m guessing Kessler-Harris’ answer to the question is a resounding YES. But if any of you with subscriptions out there want to put me out of my misery, do share! Or, of course, I could just finally the bullet and subscribe \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And speaking of Women’s History of course, which I for one adamantly believe we still need, in addition to traveling with an intergenerational feminist panel<\/a> alongside some of my favorite feminist colleagues, [Shameless Plug Alert] I am currently booking speaking engagements solo for March 2008 (Women’s History Month) based on my book, Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild<\/span><\/a>. If you are interested in bringing me to your campus or organization, please do get in touch soon, as my schedule is booking up! [Shameless Plug Ends] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feminist historian Alice Kessler-Harris has an article provocatively titled “Do We Still Need Women’s History?” running in the Chronicle of Higher Education (which I can’t, ahem, read because I don’t have a dang subscription). But here’s a tease: In the spring of 2007, the Organization of American Historians (the nation’s premier body of professional historians, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21351],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feminist-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}