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Herstory is history written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view. [1]

38 relations: Academy, Ancient Greek, Casey Miller, Christina Hoff Sommers, Climate change denial, Feminism, Gender feminism, Gender-neutral language, Global Language Monitor, He, Historical negationism, Historiography, History of feminism, Hridith Sudev, Janet Frame, Johns Hopkins University Press, Kate Swift, Lizbeth Goodman, Macaca (term), Misogyny, Neologism, New Left, Personal pronoun, Point of view (philosophy), Possessive, Radical feminism, Reuters, Robin Morgan, Sarah Dunant, Second-wave feminism, Sexism, Simon & Schuster, Third-person pronoun, United Kingdom, Virago Press, Who Stole Feminism?, Women's history, Womyn.

Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Casey Miller

Casey Geddes Miller (February 26, 1919 – January 5, 1997) was an American feminist author and editor best known for promoting the use of non-sexist writing in the English language.

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Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born September 28, 1950) is an American author, philosopher specialising in ethics, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank.

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Climate change denial

Climate change denial, or global warming denial, is part of the global warming controversy.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Gender feminism

Gender feminism is a subdivision of feminism based on the view that the gender differences are social constructs perpetrated by men in order to maintain dominance over women.

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Gender-neutral language

Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids bias toward a particular sex or social gender.

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Global Language Monitor

The Global Language Monitor (GLM) is an Austin, Texas-based company that collectively documents, analyzes, and tracks trends in language usage worldwide, with a particular emphasis upon the English language.

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He

He is a masculine third-person, singular personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English.

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Historical negationism

Historical negationism or denialism is an illegitimate distortion of the historical record.

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Historiography

Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject.

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History of feminism

The history of feminism is the chronological narrative of the movements and ideologies aimed at equal rights for women.

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Hridith Sudev

Hridith Sudev is a scientist, social activist, inventor, author, speaker and environmentalist who is known for founding the World's largest children's environmental organization, The Project GreenWorld International.

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Janet Frame

Nene Janet Paterson Clutha (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author who published under the name Janet Frame.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

The Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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Kate Swift

Kate Swift (December 9, 1923 – May 7, 2011) was an American feminist writer and editor who co-wrote (with Casey Miller, her business partner and platonic domestic partner) influential books and articles about sexism in the English language.

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Lizbeth Goodman

Lizbeth Goodman is the Chair of Creative Technology Innovation and founder director of the and the MAGIC Multimedia & Games Innovation Centre, formerly at the University of East London, England, and elsewhere, now at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.

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Macaca (term)

Macaca (feminine) and macaco (masculine) are the Portuguese words for "monkey" (compare English macaque).

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Misogyny

Misogyny is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.

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Neologism

A neologism (from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language.

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New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.

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Personal pronoun

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).

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Point of view (philosophy)

In philosophy, a point of view is a specified or stated manner of consideration, an attitude how one sees or thinks of something, as in "from my personal point of view".

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Possessive

A possessive form (abbreviated) is a word or grammatical construction used to indicate a relationship of possession in a broad sense.

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Radical feminism

Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor.

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Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant (born 8 August 1950) is a British novelist, journalist, broadcaster and critic.

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Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the United States in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades.

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Sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Third-person pronoun

A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Virago Press

Virago is London based British publishing company committed to publishing women's writing and books on feminist topics.

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Who Stole Feminism?

Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women is a 1994 book about American feminism by Christina Hoff Sommers, a writer who was at that time a philosophy professor at Clark University.

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Women's history

Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so.

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Womyn

The word womyn is one of several alternative spellings of the English word women used by some feminists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herstory

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