Surveying Gender: Another Look at the Way We Teach United States History
Surveying Gender: Another Look at the Way We Teach United States History
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性别调查：重新审视我们教授美国历史的方式
DOI：
10.2307/1555552
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2004
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M. Frederickson
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M. Frederickson
因为这位女主人公对苏珊·B·安东尼和伊丽莎白·卡迪·斯坦顿的主要政党政治感到愤怒。愤怒之下，她起草了一份广泛的国内和外交政策议程，批评高关税和自由贸易，主张改革家庭法，寻求建立国际“高等仲裁法院”，支持禁酒，并在以最微弱的普选优势获胜的选举中对两个州的总统计票提出质疑。如果为了适应所有这些，我们使叙述复杂化，我们是否会提高学生的能力，正如乔纳森所说，“看到历史事件的偶然性，发现美国经验的微妙性和复杂性，更仔细和批判性地寻找真理，并最终……更好地辨别智慧和愚蠢”？或者我们会简单地混淆我们的类吗？那么，我们是否也有勇气更明确地表现出分析和解释技能，通过这些技能，我们可以公平地评估我们所珍视的历史洞察力，从而反击公众常常认为是一种逃避的含蓄避难所，尤其是在一个问责言论高度重视的时代？我们是否有意愿反对人们所认为的讲事实与学术严谨的结合？最后，我们是否会利用调查这一职业的种子，即使在种族和民族的丰富棱镜下进行性别和折射，在我们更大的身份似乎发挥作用的时候，挑战我们的学生进行更深入的历史参与？当聚光灯疯狂地扫过舞台时，我们是否敢于此刻拉开帷幕，关注潜伏在阴影中、焦虑地在侧翼的更大的身份问题？
because of this heroine who was exasperated with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's major-party politics. In her exasperation she drafted a broad domestic and foreign policy agenda critical of both high-tariffs and free-trade, advocated reform of family law, sought the establishment of an international "high court of arbitration," supported temperance, and challenged the presidential vote count in two states in an election won by the narrowest of popular vote margins. If to accommodate all of this we complicate the narrative, will we enhance students' ability, as Jonathan puts it, "to see the contingent nature of historical events, find subtlety and complexity in the American experience, search more carefully and critically for truth and, ultimately,.. .discern better, wisdom from folly"? Or will we simply confuse our classes? Will we also then have the courage to represent more explicitly the analytical and interpretive skills by which we would fairly assess the historical discernment we prize, and thus counter the refuge of implicitness the public often perceives as a dodge, especially in an epoch of heightened accountability rhetoric? Do we have the will to counter the perceived marriage of fact-telling and academic rigor? And finally, will we use the survey, the seed corn of the professioneven if gendered and refracted by the rich prisms of race and ethnicityto challenge our students to a deeper historical engagement at a time when our larger identity seems just a bit more tenuously at play? Dare we pull back that curtain just now, on the larger identity issues lurking in the shadows, anxiously in the wings, just as the spotlight searches frantically across the stage?