why history and not herstory ?

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why history and not herstory ?

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Is history a male-biased word (his+story)?
In the last International Women’s Day I saw some footage showing a poster with the phrase women making herstory, as opposed to history. The phrase was playing with the fact that the word history can be decomposed as his+story, suggesting a male tone. I wonder whether the origin of the word does includes this gendered tone.

https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/herstory-vs-history

https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/herstory-vs-history
Herstory vs History: Usage Guidelines and Popular Confusions
Let’s define these two terms. Herstory is a term used to describe the history of women and their contributions to society. On the other hand, history is a general term used to describe the study of past events, particularly in human affairs. While both terms can be used to describe the study of the past, …

https://en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Herstory

https://en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Herstory
Herstory – Wikipedia
Herstory is a term for history written from a feminist perspective and emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman’s point of view. It originated as an alteration of the word history, as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, which in their opinion is traditionally written as his i.e., from the male point …

https://time.com/4824551/history-word-origins

https://time.com/4824551/history-word-origins
History Word Origin: What Is History and Where Term Is From | TIME
That is why feminists, for example, rejected the word history and championed the notion of herstory during the 1970s, says Dictionary.com’s Jane Solomon, to point out the fact that history …

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095933417

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095933417
Herstory – Oxford Reference
Herstory. Feminist history, or history viewed from a female or feminine perspective. The word was coined by militant feminists in the US in 1970, although the standard word history is not, in fact, a compound of his + story but derives from the Greek and Latin historia, meaning narrative.

https://www.askdifference.com/herstory-vs-history

https://www.askdifference.com/herstory-vs-history
Herstory vs. History — What’s the Difference?
17 sept. 2023Key Differences. Herstory is a play on the word History, crafted to bring focus on women’s roles and contributions, often overlooked in traditional historical accounts. On the other hand, History represents a broad study and documentation of past events, regardless of gender or perspective. The term arose as a reaction to the perceived …

https://hum11c.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/exhibits/show/reading-history/history–herstory–ourstory–o

https://hum11c.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/exhibits/show/reading-history/history–herstory–ourstory–o
History, Herstory, Ourstory, or None of the Above? Bringing Ibn Khaldun …
The tool of history, so to speak, is the analysis of written, spoken, or visual records. This is not so simple as combining information from multiple sources so as to construct a narrative of events. Both Ibn Khaldun and Arnold caution that one must think twice about taking a source at face value, albeit for different reasons.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/95146/etymology-of-history-and-why-the-hi-prefix

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/95146/etymology-of-history-and-why-the-hi-prefix
nouns – Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix? – English …
The his in history has nothing, linguistically, to do with the pronoun referring to a male person. And some critics pointed that out back in the 1970s, saying that the invention of herstory showed ignorance about where the word comes from. But sociolinguist Ben Zimmer says there’s evidence that the feminists knew as much at the time.

https://marthabeck.com/2019/03/why-history-should-be-ourstory

https://marthabeck.com/2019/03/why-history-should-be-ourstory
Why ‘History’ Should Be ‘Ourstory’ – Martha Beck
Put herstory back in the picture, and you have a much more complex and balanced picture of what it really takes to live in, and love, the natural world. The omission of herstory from the present. This bias for history over herstory isn’t just about how we discuss the past. It’s very much in our present mindset.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/494242

https://www.jstor.org/stable/494242
Why History? Thinking about the Uses of the Past
keepers of the collective past, and that for some of us historical thinking is as natural as breathing. It is another to say that for most people analytical history or the study of the distant past is instinctive. For some the very pace. of technological and political change renders serious study of the past.
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