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A Suffragette demonstration outside Buckingham Palace in 1914. 'The idea that feminism was a united and single-minded force is a troubling oversimplification.' Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images

The idea that the Vikings were violent rapists and pillagers has been further debunked by scientists looking at the DNA from Viking skeletons. They found that women would accompany them on their travels, possibly bringing their children too. Many other groups and individuals through the ages have been wrongly remembered. Here are my picks for some other troublesome misrepresentations of popular history.

The suffragettes are often remembered as the only feminists in the period before and during the first world war. This is a troubling oversimplification. It suggests that feminism was a united and single-minded force, when in fact the suffrage movement was deeply divided over tactics and aims, and the whole womens movement was even more profoundly diverse in its goals, politics and ethics. The war especially divided pacifist feminists from those who suspended their campaigns to support the war effort.

There is also the belief that once the vote was won in 1918, feminism faded away for decades, only to re-emerge in the 1970s. Historians of the interwar period are finding more evidence against this assumption, showing that the womens movement achieved some of its greatest advances in the period after the first world war: in maternity rights, international politics, and continued gains in suffrage, to name a few. Our image of the suffragettes should see them as part of a movement that never disappeared.

There is a huge historical misconception that women have only worked in the very recent past, emerging from their suburban housewifery after the second world war to begin their climb towards the glass ceiling. But in reality, the modern idea of the housewife is an invention. The historian Amy Erickson estimates that up to 98% of married women were engaged in waged labour in 18th century London. In the 19th century, despite our image of the passive Victorian woman in the private sphere, the majority of women worked outside the home.

And we shouldnt overlook the fact that housework is indeed work: enabling others to earn money through the unremunerated care of children and the management of the household and community economy. From seamstresses in the 1700s to the Wages for Housework campaigns of the 1970s, housewives have never been quite how popular history often presents them.

Its been a century or more since historians began dismantling certain Victorian stereotypes, but misconceptions about the Victorians are tenacious indeed. As Lesley Halls excellent collection of Victorian Sex Factoids demonstrates, Victorian sexuality has been seriously misrepresented in pop culture. They didnt cover their piano legs, they were responsible for a huge increase in publications (pornographic as well as scientific) about sex, and many of them countenanced government-regulated prostitution (for a short while) in Britain and (for a long while) in their colonies. These, perhaps, were not the Victorian values that Margaret Thatcher was so keen on.

This is an issue that is very important to me as a Canadian living in the UK. While Canada is far from commendable in its representation and treatment of its aboriginal peoples, I hadnt been invited to a Cowboys and Indians fancy dress party until I moved here. From feather headdresses to the commercialisation of Native American spirituality, North Americas indigenous peoples are portrayed, incorrectly, as a historically homogenous and primitive group. Even the histories that acknowledge colonial atrocities render native cultures as passive, naive or overpowered by technologically superior Europeans.

But first-contact cultures had more accurate weapons, were active in managing the land, frequently engaged in warfare and had complex exchange systems. Despite the calamity of first contact and continued mistreatment, different groups of indigenous people remained politically and militarily important in North America for many centuries after Europeans arrived. Today, in Canada alone, there are 612 recognised First Nations, who all have different relationships with each other and with the government. While many are happy to engage with nostalgic misrepresentations of past indigenous cultures in the form of Disney princesses and Halloween costumes, they are far less likely to discuss their experiences of inequality and injustice today.

The most grievous historical misrepresentation here, therefore, is that we are so much more willing to acknowledge the indigenous past of North America, rather than the indigenous present.

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Newswise WASHINGTON Adolescents who attend religious services with one or both of their parents are more likely to feel greater well-being while romantic partners who pray for their significant others experience greater relationship commitment, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

These were among the findings of studies published in two special sections of APAs Journal of Family Psychology looking at how spiritual beliefs or behaviors have appeared to strengthen generally happy marriages and how a persons religious and/or spiritual functioning may influence that of his or her family members.

These studies exemplify an emerging subfield called relational spirituality, which focuses on the ways that diverse couples and families can rely on specific spiritual beliefs and behaviors, for better or worse, to motivate them to create, maintain and transform their intimate relationships, according to Annette Mahoney, PhD, of Bowling Green State University, and Annamarie Cano, PhD, of Wayne State University, who edited special sections in the December and October issues of the journal. Hopefully, publishing these articles will spur more research on ways that religion and spirituality can help or harm couples and families relationships and encourage more interchange between family psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality.

The December issue features five studies that offer novel insights into how religiosity or spiritualism affect childrens development and influence the importance of religion in their own lives.

The October section comprises four studies that focus on the ways that couples can draw on religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors to transform their unions and help them cope with adversity. Each of the studies in the October special section moves beyond general measures of peoples involvement in organized religion or spirituality and investigates specific spiritual beliefs or behaviors that appear to influence marital adjustment and human development, according to APA President Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, editor of the Journal of Family Psychology. All the studies present rigorous research into the roles that religion and spirituality can play in enhancing family well-being.

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Religious Socialization in African-American Families: The Relative Influence of Parents, Grandparents, and Siblings by Ian A. Gutierrez, MA, University of Connecticut; Lucas J. Goodwin, MA, New York University; Katherine Kirkinis, MA, Teachers College, Columbia University; and Jacqueline S. Mattis, PhD, New York University. Looking at three generations, the researchers found that mothers have the most consistently positive influence on the religious lives of their children because they are socialized to transmit critical values, beliefs and practices across generations, and because they embrace norms of femininity that reinforce such roles. Additionally, grandparents especially grandmothers play a significant role in the religious socialization of grandchildren in African-American families, according to this research. Contact: Ian Gutierrez at ian.gutierrez@uconn.edu

Neighborhood Disorder, Spiritual Well-Being and Parenting Stress in African American Women by Dorian A. Lamis, PhD, and Christina K. Wilson, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine; Nicholas Tarantino, MA, Georgia State University; Jennifer E. Lansford, PhD, Duke University; and Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine Low-income African-American women who were primary caregivers of children between 8 and 12 and lived in disorderly neighborhoods experienced lower levels of parenting stress if they exhibited existential and/or religious well-being, according to this study. Contact: Nadine Kaslow at nkaslow@emory.edu

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