What is Gender History? What is Material Culture?

History is NOT:

Just a story from the past, History does not repeat itself exactly, Not a story of good vs evil of what lead to today,

has to happen

Nothing in history

primary source

a first-hand account of an event, an eyewitness account, or an object

Diary of Anne Frank

primary source example

Secondary Source

a source which analyzes or interprets the primary source

Review in a Newspaper

Secondary Source example

Tertiary Source

collection or synthesis of secondary sources usually used to educate or explain 

almanac, school textbook  

Tertiary Source examples

Gender history

what it means to be defined as a man, woman, or neither  

Gender

 social and legal status and the set of expectations from society about behaviors, characteristics, and thoughts

Sex

biological anatomy. Label, usually male or female that is assigned by a doctor at birth, based on genitals or chromosomes 

Second-wave feminism

women argue for their right to vote, work, have human rights(do what men do) 

Joan Scott's definition of gender

Gender is a constitutive element of how social relationships based on perceived differences between the sexes

on perceived differences between the sexes

Gender is a constitutive element of how social relationships based

Joan Scott

Who wrote a Useful Category of Historical Analysis 1986?

Judith Butler

Who wrote Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: an Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory 1988

Judith Butler’s gender identity definition

a performative accomplishment compelled by social sanction and taboo