Analysis Of Liberating Women's History By Berenice A. Carroll

The article “Liberating Women’s History: Theoretical and Critical Essay’s” is edited by Berenice A. Carroll and provides a detailed examination of the field of women’s history. Carroll’s intention of this article is to meet the needs of women’s history. To do this, Carroll suggest that historians must have a critical historiography of the field, to test the theories of past and present historians, and to find a conceptual clarity as well as define new directions. The article contains both essays of critical historiography and case studies. Carroll brakes down the examination of women’s history into two major parts: past and current work. Within the past works, Carroll includes ideologies, attitudes, theories, traditions, as well as the use of economy and class conditions made by historians in both parts. …show more content…
Positions revolving around politics and economics were both positions of high prestige and power, and culturally accepted as male. The result, a limited to nonexistent presence of women because they worked traditionally outside the “spheres of reward and recognition.” From here, Carroll introduces four major categories of writings done on women: histories of women organizations, biographies, histories of ideas about women and roles, and social histories. Carroll provides backgrounds, purposes, examples works, research styles and theories, and inhibitors of each of these categories to provide a sense of what movements have been made within the field of women’s history and why. In doing this, she creates a deeper understanding of women’s history and how there are things that worked, but there are improvements to be