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Foreword to The Underside of History (1992)

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The Underside of History was originally conceived to correct a massive injustice—the wholesale omission of recognition for the contributions to the histories of civilizations by one half of the human beings ever to have populated the earth.

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    This text was first published as: “Foreword”. In Elise Boulding. The Underside of History: A View of Women Through Time, Revised Edition, 2 vols. (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992), pages xiii to xvii. Copyright © 1992 by SAGE Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications, Inc.

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    Note especially the excellent annotated bibliographies of both recent and earlier research on women’s roles in each historical era now available in the three-volume collection of teaching packets, Restoring Women to History, prepared for the Organization of American Historians (1988). While the packets are primarily directed to teachers and researchers, any women’s history buff will enjoy browsing through them.

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    I am less convinced, however, of the significance of today’s “goddess fad,” complete with catalogues and marketing strategies. There is, however, an associated movement that represents a genuine search for a buried feminine spirituality-overdue and badly needed in these times. A body of research on goddesses in history was already available in 1974 and was therefore included in the original edition of The Underside.

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    J. Russell Boulding

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Boulding, J.R. (2017). Foreword to The Underside of History (1992). In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: A Pioneer in Peace Research, Peacemaking, Feminism, Future Studies and the Family. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31364-1_15

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