HISTORY OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS
The history of women's rights, the contested term "feminist" has come to mean a recognition that sex is an important category of analysis; a assertian that women as a category have been historically disadvantage related to men of their race, ethnicity, class, or sexual identity, and commitment to help change the structures that systematically privilege of men over women.
This report does not attempt to impose one feminist "line" but reconizes the multiple perspectives captured by the term "feminisms". Its central principle has been a focus an the study of women rather than an gender systems and a belief that the divide between "women's history" and " gendar history" can be and is, bridged by work on women that is sesitive to the particular historical constructions of gender .
