I hate the fact that...

[sockstealingpoltergeist]

Information on womens history is so limited and most of the time told from a male perspective. WDYT?

[BigRedV]

History has generally been written by men, for men, celebrating "male" activities such as war, industry, politics...etc

Interesting reading:

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=P3ez_CVbsyMC&pg=PP13&lpg=PP13&dq=why+is+w omen's+history+written+by+men&source=bl&ots=mY1a7o oj52&sig=ak30NCEruBgyfbvR3mHBmmXS1Y0&hl=en&ei=4Qyw SvDaK9WIkQWkwfiVBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&r esnum=1#v=onepage&q=why%20is%20women's%20history%2 0written%20by%20men&f=false

[Busy-Bee]

Yep, traditionally the teaching of history was all about "great men".

This 'great man' did *this* on [insert date].

Very sad. I love reading about 'woman's' history, I can relate to it so much more! I also love reading about significant women in history and the challenges they faced.

[Tam-I-Am]

Ah yes, the conquered people have no voice.

I find it equally sad that history is told from (for the most part) the perspective of white people - not Indigineous people.

[sockstealingpoltergeist]

Yes it's seems that only the white male perspective was important.

[girly]

History has generally been written by men, for men, celebrating "male" activities such as war, industry, politics...etc

Which I think is Wrong wrong wrong...God times were crappy back then.

[Busy-Bee]

Ah yes, the conquered people have no voice.

I find it equally sad that history is told from (for the most part) the perspective of white people - not Indigineous people.

Yep, I probably should have said

"this great white man did *this* on [insert date]"

Apparently there was no Australian history prior to Captain Cook 'discovering' us.