However, though her gender remained constant, Bolton's position changed during her lifetime and she began writing histories of women and openly advocating the role of women in social change (Des Jardins, 17). Therefore, Bolton is an example of how secondary characteristics are more influential on how a historian presents history than gender is.
Furthermore, in addition to being secondary to changeable characteristics, gender may also be secondary to other immutable characteristics. Throughout most of American history, race was a more unifying and important characteristic to most African-Americans than sex. After all, while men had de facto superiority over women, African-Americans were considered the legal property of whites for the greater part of American history. Therefore, an African-American man may be better qualified to write a history about the experience of African-American women than a white woman would be. Therefore, the writer's secondary characteristics are more important than gender.
While the first two examples presume an unintentional bias, one also has to understand that historians, just like other people, also exert intentional biases. There are "histories" out there that distort factual realities in order to forward some type of agenda. These histories include books that use selected facts to deny that the Holocaust occurred or use the fact that the first Blacks came to America willingly as indentured servants to support the idea that the institution of slavery was not as horrific as otherwise portrayed. The writers of these histories have agendas, and their writings are used to further those agendas. Women are not immune from this type of behavior. In fact, in the so-called gender wars, women make up a large part of the right, using the word "feminist" as an epitaph, while exercising...
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