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Mila
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Topic: Welcome to Women's History Posted: 11-May-2006 at 15:29 |
Welcome to WOMEN'S HISTORY
Throughout history, women have played a variety of roles:
mother,
artist, agriculturalist, nurse, healer, midwife, judge, priestess,
weaver, queen, leader, prostitute, merchant, laborer, warrior,
holy
woman, and more.
For women, history is both familiar and distantly abstract. The
universal roles of mother and homemaker have firmly anchored
us in our
past, in the past of every woman, as well as enabled us to
constitute a fundamental role in the passage of time. Our stories are, in
reality,
not all that different from those of our fathers, our husbands,
and our
sons - but instead of history, they are her story.
Regardless of their social and political status and their
individual culture's values, women everywhere have led active
lives.
They have worked to bear and raise children, to produce food,
contribute to the household and social economy, to participate
in the
decision making of their society, and to be major practitioners
of
spiritual rites. The contributions of women throughout history
continue
to have an impact on women's lives today.
It is important to recognize that individual women within any
culture differ vastly from one another. All people are shaped by
a
variety of cultural elements--class, ethnicity, religion, sexuality,
and other forces such as education or geographic location.
So our stories are told from different perspectives - different
from
each other, and different from our men. As we live our daily
lives differently than men, so we remember and pass on stories
significant in ways many male historians fail to notice.
So women - whatever your background, whatever your story - it
is time
to come together. An entire history of women and women's
contributions
to history in general is just waiting to be shared, and this is your
place to share it. Welcome!
- Morticia and Mila
Edited by Mila - 15-May-2006 at 15:49
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poirot
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Posted: 11-May-2006 at 16:48 |
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AAAAAAAAAA
"The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.� ~ HG Wells
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Neoptolemos
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Posted: 11-May-2006 at 17:10 |
Congrats Mila and Morticia
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Anujkhamar
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Posted: 11-May-2006 at 17:35 |
bah, get back to the kitchens nah im just joking, congrats on finally making moderator Mila
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red clay
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Posted: 11-May-2006 at 20:37 |
Congratulations and good luck.
Oh, one ?- If a man makes a statement and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
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morticia
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Posted: 11-May-2006 at 23:59 |
Thank you, Mila, for all your hard work in this project. You can count on my contribution and support. I am sure that "Her Story" will have a positive impact.
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Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst
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Leonidas
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Posted: 13-May-2006 at 10:22 |
Im very impressed, this should increase the scope and attraction of this website. Now one half of the world population gets represented. Mila i only noticed your a moderator, was it announced? congrats from little defensive me
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Mila
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Posted: 13-May-2006 at 10:25 |
Thank you again, everyone. I ask that while we're getting this forum
going, please - if you have something to say, say it. Participate in
threads as little or as much as you want - it will help get things
anchored.
Also, we don't want this to be a place just for women. This forum is
mostly men and will always be mostly men, and while I hope this woman
has high female participation it simply won't work if our men-folk have
nothing to contribute, debate, discuss.
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Kapikulu
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Posted: 13-May-2006 at 18:04 |
Why don't we have a section named "his story", you feminists
Other than this joke, I'd like to congratulate Mila and Morticia, for adding a different ambience to the forum.
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We gave up your happiness
Your hope would be enough;
we couldn't find neither;
we made up sorrows for ourselves;
we couldn't be consoled;
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Mila
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Posted: 13-May-2006 at 18:06 |
Thanks, Kapik. Feel free to participate.
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