Valthehistorian

barbeauxbot:

valthehistorian:

You might be a feminist if you believe the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and aftermath should be taught in schools and not relegated to women’s history courses or “months.”

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a very significant event in American history, and it should absolutely be taught as part of general history and labor history.

Yeah but that would involve teaching not only about women’s history but also about the history of the labor movement and lol that’s SOCIALISM

And I just thought a better way of explaing this. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire is not about women’s history. It is about women IN history. The term Women’s history (to me) implies that women occupy a different sort of history than plain old history. We should be talking about including women in history, rather than including women’s history in history. Same goes for labor history - laborers IN history, rather than a different part of history itself.