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| Boydston challenged historians to interrogate the cultural and historical specificity of gender itself, rather than projecting modern understandings onto past societies, making the case that careful, context-specific analysis enriches gender history. (Caitlyn Edwards) | Boydston challenged historians to interrogate the cultural and historical specificity of gender itself, rather than projecting modern understandings onto past societies, making the case that careful, context-specific analysis enriches gender history. (Caitlyn Edwards) | ||
| + | Many historians like Nan Enstad argue that, when studying gender in history, an emphasis must be placed on subjectivity. Rather than assuming that gender is a rigid, fixed concept that has remained the same across all time and space, Enstad encourages a much more fluid view of gender that takes into account how identity is not an inherent, unchanging fact. (Noah Rutkowski) | ||
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