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My favorite point that Castaneda made was that “women of all races, classes, and cultures are active subjects, not passive objects or victims of the historical process.” (18) I think it is vital task for historians to search for the agency women possessed, even if men attempted to keep women “powerless.” -Allison Luthern | My favorite point that Castaneda made was that “women of all races, classes, and cultures are active subjects, not passive objects or victims of the historical process.” (18) I think it is vital task for historians to search for the agency women possessed, even if men attempted to keep women “powerless.” -Allison Luthern | ||
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| + | I found Castañeda’s comment interesting about studying the west (west being defined as a mobile line beginning with European expansion into the eastern coast of the Americas through all periods of settling and expanding towards the opposite coast of California and Alaska) with a focus on women of color to understand how they used their own culture and knowledge of how the world worked to put in to context the changes happening during colonization. I think it is a neat idea to research how they themselves perceived the changes and how they saw themselves as active participants rather than addressing western expansion through a male point of view in which women were often written about in passive roles. This viewpoint would add incredible knowledge to our understanding on the effects of colonization and expansion within American Studies. -- Elyse Lawrence | ||
== Gisela Bock's "Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History" == | == Gisela Bock's "Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History" == | ||
