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We now know that man is not the measure of that which is human, but men and women are.
Women's History is indispensable and essential to the emancipation of women.
The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)
There was therefore no inevitability in the emergence of an all male priesthood.
The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)
Women had no history—so they were told; so they believed. Thus, ultimately, it was men's hegemony over the symbol system which most decisively disadvantaged women.
The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)
Most significant of all the impediments toward developing group consciousness for women was the absence of a tradition which would reaffirm the independence and autonomy of women at any period in the past.
The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)
Among equals there is no category of "Otherness." The act of categorizing another implies oppression.
Why history matters (1997)
What is left to a Jew who refuses the religious community? Antisemitism and history. In short order I experienced plenty of both.
Why history matters (1997)
What I was learning in graduate school did not so much leave out continents and their people as it left out half the human race, women.
The majority finds its past (1979)
As I began to work on my research priorities, the absence of black women from history appeared to me as an urgent problem to be considered.
The majority finds its past (1979)
I have sometimes been asked, "How has your being Jewish influenced your work in Women's History?" The simplest way I can answer this question is, I am a historian because of my Jewish experience.
Why history matters (1997)
What women must do, what feminists are now doing is to point to that stage, its sets, its props, its director, and its scriptwriter, as did the child in the fairy tale who discovered that the emperor was naked, and say, the basic inequality between us lies within this framework. And then they must tear it down.
The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)