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  1. Feb 2022
    1. igns of Elizabeth I in England and Catharine de Medici in France would dwell on the issue of'women's suitability f'or political rule, but, in the period when kinship and kingship were integrally related, discussions about male kings were equally preoccupied with masculinity and femininity.48

      I find it interesting that people often use these examples while explaining why women are not fit for rulership, but why can't women then use examples of why men can't be rulers also? Men are emotional, they just express their emotions in violence and anger rather than crying, so Hitler is a good example. Can't the same argument against women be made against men?

    2. women had a history separate f'rom meni's, therefore let fenminists do women's history, which need not concern us"; or "womnen's history is about sex and the family and should be done separately from political and economic history"). In

      When looking at these quotes from non-feminist historians, how is it that the argument of women having their own separate history doesn't concern men? Is this only in conversation with Western History, especially the US? I can think of multiple women throughout history that heavily impacted Western culture in Europe, the first one off the top of my head being Cleopatra of Egypt and her involvement with the Roman Empire.

    3. ecent usage, "gender" seems to have first appeared among American feminists who wanted to insist on the fundamentally social quality of distinctions based on sex. The word denoted a rejection of the biological determinism implicit in the use of such terms as "sex" or "sexual difference." "Gender" also

      I see this is modern day American, following with the feminist movement and with the LGBTQ+ movement, especially concerning Trans individuals. It is interesting to see that the overall pushback against the idea of gender and sex has stayed the same, but now in modern day, it seems to be benefitting more people when we understand that gender is a social construct.