Herstory
"Herstory" is a neologistic term for "women's history," a variant of the Marxist "people's history"; while a people's history professes to reinterpret history from the perspective of workers and/or common men, a herstory professes to reinterpret it from the perspective of women. Most feminists don't use it.
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[edit] Etymology
The term is an illustration of its coiners' belief that regular history is heavily slanted toward men's point of view; a "systemic bias" reflected in the term history, "his story."
Unfortunately, it happens that the English word history is a loan word, derived directly from the Latin historia, which is itself a loan word from ancient Greek. On the other hand, the English word his is derived from a proto-Germanic root meaning "this," and is not in the least etymologically connected to the first three letters of history.
[edit] Well-known herstorians
- Robin Morgan, who coined the term.
[edit] Herstorians primarily known for herstorical work rather than political activities
