![]() ![]() Spotting that one book led me to a wonderful discovery – that there are more incredible books out there that focus on the history of women and many have been written for children. Recently though I spotted a book called Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh. Yet I can tell you as a History major that there never was much of a focus on the contributions of women. One of the papers I wrote and still remember well was about Native American women warriors. History was one of my favorite subjects in school and I so loved it that I even went on to get one of my university degrees in history. Sadly what still appears to happen in school in this country is that the history that is taught to our children still remains more focused on the accomplishments of men. What I was learning in graduate school did not so much leave out continents and their people, as had my Viennese education, as it left out half the human race, women.” ![]() One of her quotes that stays with me is the following: “Now, in one of the best graduate schools in the country I was presented with a history of the past in which women did not seem to exist, except for a few rulers or some who created disturbances. It led me to devote a Mojo Monday post on September 1st to her and her accomplishments. ![]() In August of this year I learned for the first time of the amazing Gerda Lerner who founded Women’s Studies in the USA. ![]()
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