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To further the understanding of women as a minority group in America during the earlier part of the 1900s, Gerda Lerner’s article Placing Women in History shows there are different levels conceptualizing women’s history. For example, the first level describes how trained historians have approached women’s history by focusing on their achievements which didn’t help people know about activities most women engaged in and the significance of those activities to society as a whole. Showalter asserts that history has not included female experience so it is insufficient to find an understanding of women’s experiences. Two essays by social anthropologist Edwin Ardener, “Belief and the Problem of Women” (1972) and “The Problem Revisited” (1975),

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