"With the growth of women's power, the history of all kinds of contributions by women, as individuals and as a sex-in literature, language, art, music, politics, religion, agriculture, science, etc.-has at last begun to surface. For the record, women are not the only sufferers at the hands of historians. The Great Man theory of history hides not only Great Women but defines almost everyone out of greatness. Specifically, the invisibility of women's work as organizers-which includes every woman rather than just "Great Women" (writers, scientists, painters, and so on) - itself reflects a class bias, a career bias, in the women's movement, itself perpetuates a historical censorship in another form."
January 1, 1970
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