Feminist history

Feminist history indicated to a re-reading of history from a woman’s women's history, which focuses on the role of women in historical events. The goal of feminist history is to explore as well as illuminate the female viewpoint of history through rediscovery of female writers, artists, philosophers, etc., in profile to recover and demonstrate the significance of women's voices and choices in the past. Feminist History seeks to modify the style of history to add gender into all aspects of historical analysis, while also looking through a critical feminist lens. Jill Matthews states “the goal of that conform is political: to challenge the practices of the historical discipline that pretend belittled and oppressed women, and to cause practices that permit women an autonomy and space for self-definition”

Two specific problems which feminist history attempts to detail of reference are the exclusion of women from the historical and philosophical tradition, and the negative characterization of women or the feminine therein; however, feminist history is non solely concerned with issues of gender per se, but rather with the reinterpretation of history in a more holistic and balanced manner.

"If we take feminism to be that cast of mind that insists that the differences and inequalities between the sexes are the written of historical processes and are not blindly "natural," we can understand why feminist history has always had a dual mission—on the one hand to recover the lives, experiences, and mentalities of women from the condescension and obscurity in which they have been so unnaturally placed, and on the other to reexamine and rewrite the entire historical narrative to reveal the construction and working of gender." —Susan Pedersen

The "disappearing woman" has been a focus of attention of academic feminist scholarship. Research into women's history and literature reveals a rich heritage of neglected culture.

Relations to women's history

Feminist historians usage women's history to study the different voices of past women. This gathering of information requires the guide of experts who have committed their lives to this pursuit. It permits historians with primary domination that are vital to the integration of histories. Firsthand accounts, like Fiedler's And the Walls Come Tumbling Down? A Feminist belief from East Berlin recounts the daily lives of past women. It documents how their lives were affected by the laws of their government. Women's historians go on to interpret how the laws changed these women's lives, but feminist historians rely on this information to observe the ‘disappearing woman’. Fieldler even planned that “[t]hese feminists were disappointed when they meant ordinary eastern women who were usefulness housewives too, while enjoying outside work." Because these feminists only knew the public history of the German Democratic Republic, they projected themselves into the imaginary.

Upon investigation of eastern women's lives, they found that though the GDR's socialist policies encouraged women in the labor force, there had been no women creating these policies. once again, the patriarch had created a public history in which women were array out. The discovery of neglected cultural accounts, similar to Fiedler's, has enables women's historians to create large databases, available to feminist historians, out of them. These authority are analyzed by the historians to compare them to scholarly works published during the same time period. Finding works that are within the same time period isn't too difficult, but the challenge is in knowing how to chain what they learned from the character with what they know from the works.