ИСТИНА

Not so long ago, a new direction in history appeared - Gender History, which makes a historical analysis of gender relations. The concept of “gender history” arose in the early 1980s. 20th century Until recently, women were excluded from the field of view of researchers. This is understandable, because for centuries women were eliminated from public life and power spheres, which made them almost invisible to historians. The historiography of antiquity and the Middle Ages left us vivid female images: Joan of Arc, Catherine the Great, and others, but they entered it precisely because they behaved beyond the boundaries of female behavior. Philosophers of antiquity, using the term "man", had in mind a man. The man is the earner, the woman is the keeper of the hearth.