Talk:Women's history

message: I have removed the bolded part of the first sentence of this article:
Women's history is a term that refers to information about the past in regard to the female human being, in contrast to a history from a feminist perspective (called Herstory).
Considering that feminism is a broad movement, one could claim that women's history is history from a feminist perspective. The bolded text that I removed might have been intended to discredit feminism by emphasing extremist feminists. --Kernigh 01:40, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I know there is a Herstory page, but I think Women's History is far more common for name of the field. Would anyone mind a disambiguation between the field and the subject itself? -- TheMightyQuill 09:21, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation?

message: Please see  El Jigue 1/19/06
:This topic should be expanded upon, for example, from 618-907 CE, Empress Wu Zeitan of the Tang Dynasty, was the first empress in Chinese history. This fact is important because this is the first and only time that a female has ruled China. Especially so early in history, this was a marker of equality between men and women, as many Chinese societies were more equal than what they are in, say America, today. --Jenna Deutch (talk) 03:03, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Women's History in other countries

message: Shouldn't the article on women's history dicussus th,ke logistics of women's history.. prominent women's historians, popular research topics, and that sort of thing rather than lising the history of women?  The article on History isn't just a list of every universal historical event that ever happened. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 164.156.66.47 (talk) 16:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question. The title of this article is a little confusing. As it says at the top of the article This article is about the history of women. For information on the field of historical study, see Gender history. - TheMightyQuill 08:30, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Also speaking as a graduate student in history, I agree that Women's History is not the same as Gender History but insist there is a world outside academia in which "Women's History" the field (which now seems to be using the article Herstory) is hard to separate from the actual history of women. See World History vs History of the world for another example. In fact, when I created Gender History, I described it as an outgrowth of Women's History the field. If, however, you want to move this article to the history of women and rename Herstory to Women's History, I'd support it. Finally, whether or not "herstory" is an extreme idea really depends on your point of view. - TheMightyQuill 19:36, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  women's history? 

message: I think Women as theological figures covers part of the topic: and certain aspects could be developed cojointly. Jackiespeel (talk) 14:01, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Women and religion

message: This article is a good example of why wikipedia is insalvagable. Poorly written with no real scholarly background, its based on American sources and historiography too. Pathetic.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.211.212 (talk) 23:31, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes.  Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). -- Mwanner | Talk 23:54, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This article is absolute nonsense and should be deleted

message: I think critical persons should not hesitate to substantially alter this article as its extremely naive and uninformative. Just go ahead and do it. For a start I agree with the comment above 'The Women's History article really should be about the rise of the field of women's history'. I myself lack basic information to do this. eg Does anyone know when the term first started to be used (I mean other than that in the absence of other info I would assume as part of 'second wave feminism' but wondering if the first wave feminists were also interested in this area). Or at least if there is anything like a Women's history conference, associations, journals, courses named this, academics who state this as their field etc. If so, chuck it in here and delete other stuff. Also, cover any opposition to the term.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucy1958 (talk • contribs) 03:54, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs overwriting by someone qualified

message: just curios greets--Lexikon-Duff (talk) 02:51, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a men's history. It's called "His" Story. --Henriettapussycat (talk) 21:39, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If that's a serious question, Lexikon-Duff, I'm happy to try to answer it, or at least point you to some readings. And actually, over the last decade or two, there have been scholars who specialize in "masculinity studies," and what historically made a man a man, and "men's history." Cynwolfe (talk) 21:43, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why isnt there a "Mens history"? 

message: This article was edited as part of the San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon. The editor who attended the event may be a new editor. In an effort to support new editor's & a healthy environment, please assume good faith to their contributions before making changes. Thank you! Sarah (talk) 20:23, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article was edited as part of an edit-a-thon 

message: Where would be a good spot to link History of women in science to this article? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 14:07, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I recommend a new section 2.7 after 2.6 Religion. Rjensen (talk) 14:36, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of women in science 

message: ...and how about History of women in sports? Ottawahitech (talk) 16:06, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: History of women in sports

message: Hi, I am interested in adding to/elaborating on the Middle East section. I'm planning on taking a mostly historiographical approach. Please let me know if you have ideas, opinions, or sources! Also, Happy International Women's Day. MBJAnderson (talk) 09:22, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revising Middle East section (with historiography info) 

message: Voice 2402:8100:2577:73A3:411B:49EF:9436:DCA3 (talk) 11:09, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evolution of women in Indian history 

message: — Assignment last updated by Xinyue Hu (talk) 13:29, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
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