![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. If the study of history was seen as essential to develop ‘manliness’, it served equally to alert women to their unequal status and led to an assertion of history’s moral authority in order to achieve women’s rights. ![]() Women’s historical endeavours created an intellectual environment that allowed the development of feminist ideas, and increasingly throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a sense of women’s oppression was acknowledged. During this period women historians did not necessarily write about women, nor were they overtly concerned with women’s rights, but many of them developed feminist consciousness through their study of history. Subverting traditional genres like biography and family history, women inserted themselves into historical narratives and subtly manipulated the gendered expectations of historiography. ![]() It will demonstrate that although lacking in civil rights, with poor educational opportunities and with little access to the materials necessary to write history, a small but significant number of women engaged in the production of history throughout this period. This chapter will examine the work of women as historical writers from the Renaissance until the French Revolution. Women have always practised various means of recording history, but these practices have rarely been recognised as history. ![]()
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