hierarchies

Since 1855 (and earlier) there has been a 'women's movement' and there have always been women who have analyzed the social arrangements and who have protested, resisted, argued, challenged, contested, struggled, consolidated, and fought to change those arrangements and to end male power. Their efforts have been sustained and uninterrupted. That we have inherited a history of silences and interruptions indicates the extent to which men have written - and falsified- the records