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Gisela Bock's essay, ''Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History'' was fascinating for a few reasons. First of all, she begins her thesis by reminding us that the reason that Women's History is rendered visible is fundamentally due to subjection. This was a thought provoking statement because all American minority history begins with exploitation or subjection so I was quite intrigued. Bock's essay differed from Kate Haulman's in its use of definitions and the words that she chose to focus on. Mainly, her attention to Gender VS. Sex or biology. I found it interesting that her Equality Vs. Difference section tied directly into further examination of Sex vs Gender. It seemed ironic that in the battle for gender equality, in the public, private, and scholarly arena, Women's Studies runs the risk of becoming invisible yet again by "mainstreaming" because it has been turned into an amalgamation of Gender Studies. This in turn could characterize the word Woman as biological leaving it historically irrelevant. One would hope that Women's Studies does indeed receive the autonomy and examination that it truly deserves while exploring and remembering that both genders live and work reflexively with each other and thus influence each other immensely. - Caryn Levine | Gisela Bock's essay, ''Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History'' was fascinating for a few reasons. First of all, she begins her thesis by reminding us that the reason that Women's History is rendered visible is fundamentally due to subjection. This was a thought provoking statement because all American minority history begins with exploitation or subjection so I was quite intrigued. Bock's essay differed from Kate Haulman's in its use of definitions and the words that she chose to focus on. Mainly, her attention to Gender VS. Sex or biology. I found it interesting that her Equality Vs. Difference section tied directly into further examination of Sex vs Gender. It seemed ironic that in the battle for gender equality, in the public, private, and scholarly arena, Women's Studies runs the risk of becoming invisible yet again by "mainstreaming" because it has been turned into an amalgamation of Gender Studies. This in turn could characterize the word Woman as biological leaving it historically irrelevant. One would hope that Women's Studies does indeed receive the autonomy and examination that it truly deserves while exploring and remembering that both genders live and work reflexively with each other and thus influence each other immensely. - Caryn Levine | ||
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| + | I found the dichotomies presented in Gisela Bock’s essay, “ Challenging Dichotomies in Women’s History,” to be very interesting. One of the dichotomies that I found to be interesting in the essay was nature vs. culture, I thought it was fascinating how the role of motherhood and fatherhood are labeled two different ways, with the role that women take in the bearing and raising of children being “natural” and the role of men being labeled as “social”. -- Erin Glennon | ||
