Welcome to Women's History

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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