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This 6 page paper analyzes the information entitled "Power as a Theme in Women's History" as well as an essay by Freedman about women's issues and organizations. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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tells the reader what subjects will be covered, and how. In this case, the editors, Sklar and Dublin, mention a series of essays, but only one is included in the
material: "Separatism as Strategy" by Estelle Freedman. This paper briefly considers Freedmans work, but concentrates on analyzing the introduction itself in detail. Discussion Sklar and Dublin point out something immediately
that should be obvious, but has clearly been overlooked: when one studies womens history, the turning points and events that are important to women are not the same ones that
are important to men (Sklar and Dublin, 2002, p. 3). Men seem to measure their history by such yardsticks as war and politics, whereas womens history concerns things like "changes
in family values, social movements, or the organization of the paid labor force" (Sklar and Dublin, 2002, p. 3). In order to study womens history in any meaningful way, the
authors suggest that "new categories of analysis are ... needed"; absent these categories, U.S. womens history has concentrated on family, womens working lives, and "community activism" rather than the "larger
themes of power that pervade male-centered treatments of American history" (Sklar and Dublin, 2002, p. 3). This article argues that power is a useful tool to analyze change in womens
lives, because it cuts across all the important dimensions: community, family and work (Sklar and Dublin, 2002). Power is also useful in connecting womens issues with other parts of American
history (Sklar and Dublin, 2002). They consider that gender is a "principle of social organization" and explore some of the way in which society is organized along gender lines (Sklar
and Dublin, 2002, p. 4). This idea is surely not new to anyone who has observed society over the last 30 years. To take a simple example, women have made
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