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Herstory is history written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view. It is a neologism coined as a pun with the word "history", as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, which in their opinion is traditionally written as "his story", i.e., from the masculine point of view.〔 (The word "history"—from the Ancient Greek ἱστορία, or historia, meaning "knowledge obtained by inquiry"—is etymologically unrelated to the possessive pronoun ''his''.〔Jane Mills, "Womanwords: a dictionary of words about women", 1992, ISBN 0-02-921495-5, (p. 118 )〕) The herstory movement has spawned women-centered presses, such as Virago Press in 1973, which publishes fiction and non-fiction by noted women authors like Janet Frame and Sarah Dunant. ==Usage== Robin Morgan, in a book of her selected writings states that the debug of the word "herstory" was in the byline of her article ''Goodbye to All That'', in early 1970, in the first issue of the "underground" New Left newspaper ''Rat'' after it was overtaken by women to clean it off sexism. She writes that she identified herself as a member of W.I.T.C.H., decoding the acronym as ""Women Inspired to Commit Herstory".〔Robin Morgan, ''The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches'', a 2014 edition, ISBN 1497678072, (p. 33 ) 〕 In 1976, Casey Miller and Kate Swift wrote in ''Words & Women,'' :When women in the movement use herstory, their purpose is to emphasize that women's lives, deeds, and participation in human affairs have been neglected or undervalued in standard histories. During the 1970s and 1980s, second-wave feminists saw the study of history as a male-dominated intellectual enterprise and presented "herstory" as a means of compensation.〔Devoney Looser, ''British Women Writers and the Writing of History'' (Johns Hopkins University Press: 2000). ISBN 0-8018-6448-8.〕 The term, intended to be both serious and comic,〔Angus Calder and Lizbeth Goodman, "Gender and Poetry", in ''Literature and Gender,'' ed. by Lizbeth Goodman (Routledge: 1996). ISBN 0-415-13573-7.〕 became a rallying cry used on T-shirts and buttons as well as in academia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herstory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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