History Notes Approaches to History Notes
These notes provide comprehensive cover of the Approaches to History topics of Gender and Sociology. They were the sole resource that I used for my preliminary examination revision, in which I achieved a mark of 67%. They include a wealth of examples spanning across a wide range of time periods (from medieval to modern), as well as discussion of a broad range of historiography, making them a complete resource for studying for the Approaches prelim, if you are taking the Gender or Sociology option...
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Approaches Revision Notes:
GENDER:
Religion:
1. What role has organised religion played in the history of gender roles?
Could organise into:
Texts.
Symbolism.
Moral behaviour.
Idea of fundamental difference.
Political platforms/community.
REINFORCED | BROKEN DOWN |
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Have certainly had impact:
| Could give women a platform:
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Religious knowledge associated with ‘maleness’:
| Has been tendency to read religious texts through ‘lenses of gender’:
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Many religious symbols are gendered:
| Women have often played leading roles during formative periods of religion:
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Made even greater by printing press:
| Emphasis on charity in C18th may have increased importance of female role:
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Relevance of religion to family:
| Women were valued for piety and spiritual worth:
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Religion often very strongly linked to maintenance of social order:
| There have been images of spiritual women:
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Women played a very important role in household religion:
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Could be said to have encouraged development of community of women:
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Is a very complex issue, that has shifted over time:
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2. How far should historians distinguish between practice and doctrine when assessing the impact of religion on gender roles?
SIMILARITIES | DIFFERENCES |
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Images put forward by doctrine did often translate effectively.
| Texts often v dominated by men, but this was not the same as popular belief.
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The same... |
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These notes provide comprehensive cover of the Approaches to History topics of Gender and Sociology. They were the sole resource that I used for my preliminary examination revision, in which I achieved a mark of 67%. They include a wealth of examples spanning across a wide range of time periods (from medieval to modern), as well as discussion of a broad range of historiography, making them a complete resource for studying for the Approaches prelim, if you are taking the Gender or Sociology option...
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