Editing Herstory (section)

==Criticism==
[[Christina Hoff Sommers]] has been a vocal critic of the concept of herstory, and presented her argument against the movement in her 1994 book ''[[Who Stole Feminism?]]'' Sommers defined herstory as an attempt to infuse education with ideology at the expense of knowledge.<ref>{{cite book |title=Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women |last=Hoff Sommers |first=Christina |year=1995 |publisher=[[Touchstone Books]] |location=[[United Kingdom]] |isbn=0-684-80156-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/whostolefeminism00chri/page/97 97] |chapter=5 (The Feminist Classroom) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/whostolefeminism00chri/page/97 }}</ref> The "[[gender feminism (Sommers)|gender feminists]]", as she called them, were the group of feminists responsible for the movement, which she felt amounted to [[negationism]]. She regarded most attempts to make historical studies more female-inclusive as being artificial in nature and an impediment to progress.<ref name="Sommers"/>

Professor and author [[Devoney Looser]] has criticized the concept of herstory for overlooking the contributions that some women made as historians before the twentieth century.<ref name="looser" /> Author [[Richard Dawkins]] also described his criticism in ''[[The God Delusion]]'',  arguing that "the word history has not been influenced by the male pronoun".<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=This Is Where the Word 'History' Comes From|url=https://time.com/4824551/history-word-origins/|access-date=2020-12-15|magazine=Time}}</ref> Critics also highlight that herstory, while aiming to prioritize women’s narratives, sometimes excludes non-Western perspectives, pointing out the importance of reconstructing feminist genealogies from a southern perspective, advocating for inclusivity in representing subaltern women’s histories and experiences.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jofré |first=Alejandra Ciriza |date=2012 |title=Genealogías feministas: sobre mujeres, revoluciones e ilustración: una mirada desde el sur |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-026x2012000300002 |journal=Revista Estudos Feministas |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=613–633 |doi=10.1590/s0104-026x2012000300002 |issn=0104-026X|hdl=11336/67208 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>