"If we take feminism to be that cast of mind that insists that the differences and inequalities between the sexes are the result of historical processes and are not blindly "natural," we can understand why feminist history has always had a dual mission—on the one hand to recover the lives, experiences, and mentalities of women from the condescension and obscurity in which they have been so unnaturally placed, and on the other to reexamine and rewrite the entire historical narrative to reveal the construction and workings of gender."
Research into women's history and literature reveals a rich heritage of neglected culture.
Harvard's Women's Studies Database contain sources, like the Gerritsen Collection, that allow scholarly papers by feminists to be written and publicly convey the fact that there is more than one history and the progress made in combining them.
(A Feminist View from East Berlin) recounts the daily lives of past women.
Fieldler even mentioned that "[t]hese feminists were disappointed when they meant ordinary eastern women who were good housewives too, while enjoying outside work.
"[10] Because these feminists only knew the public history of the German Democratic Republic, they projected themselves into the imaginary.
These sources are analyzed by the historians to compare them to scholarly works published during the same time period.
To successfully integrate these histories, the world must not have male and female spheres that are synonyms for the private and public.
The connections found in public and private men's and women's history need to be systematically synthesized to successfully integrate them.
In her book, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism, Bennett writes on the importance of studying a "patriarchal equilibrium".
[11] Cheryl Glenn also writes on the importance of feminist historiography "Writing women (or any other traditionally disenfranchised group) into the history of rhetoric, then, can be an ethically and intellectually responsible gesture that disrupts those frozen memories in order to address silences, challenge absences, and assert women's contributions to public life"[12] This facet of feminist history inspect historical writings that are typically assumed to be canon, and reinvents them under a feminist lens.