![]() ![]() ![]() ‘They are within history in a special position of exclusion in which they have developed their own mode of experiencing, their way of seeing, their culture.’” “Women are not without history, they do not stand outside history. As long as women as a group are fragmented within, a true and solid women’s vision of their common past cannot exist. “Adding women” in historical terms means adding the histories of women from all walks of life: stories of the “sacred” women or virgins or nuns like Enheduanna and Hildegard von Bingen alongside the “married” women like Christine de Pizan alongside “non-proper” women, like prostitutes and courtesans.Īs long as women as a group remain divided into these three basic patriarchal subdivisions, we will not be able to construct the true, three-dimensional whole. But only when the third dimension is fully integrated and moves with the whole, only when women’s vision is equal with men’s vision, do we perceive the true relations of the whole and the inner connectedness of the parts.” ![]() ‘Adding women’ to the patriarchal framework makes it three-dimensional. “Seeing … in patriarchal terms is two-dimensional. ![]()
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