The Invisibility of Women
•Intellectual culture tends to make women invisible.
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•The intellectual and artistic achievements of women are largely ignored.
–Some histories of art do not mention a single female artist.
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•History is written as if women had no role in it and were hardly even present.
–Historians discuss a great length the violent war-making capacities of males.
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•Sociology is all about men.
–The male experience is taken as the paradigm case.
–Sociological research has mainly studied males.
–Mainstream sociological theory largely ignores feminist theory. 
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