U. S. History As Women's History New Feminist Essays

Name: U. S. History As Women's History New Feminist Essays
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ISBN: 9780807844953

ISBN-10: 0807844950

ISBN-13: 9780807844953

Edition: 1995

Authors: Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, Kathryn Kish Sklar

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This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors, 'intrudes into regions of the American historical narrative from which women have been excluded or in which gender relations were not thought to play a part.' State formation, power, and knowledge have not traditionally been understood as the subjects of women's history, but they are the themes that permeate this book. Individually and together, the…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Introduction



State Formation



A Constitutional Right to be Treated Like American Ladies: Women and the Obligation of Citizenship



Two Political Cultures in the Progressive Era: The National Consumer' League and the American Association for Labor Legislation



Putting Children First, Women Materialism, and Welfare in the Early Twentieth Century



Designing Women and Old Fool: The Construction of the Social Security Amendments of 1939



Giving Character to Our Whole Civil Polity : Marriage and the Public Order in the Late Nineteenth Century



Power



Soul Murder and Slavery: Toward Fully Loaded Cost Accounting



Gendered Expectations: Women and Early Twentieth-Century Public Health



Separatism Revisited: Women's Institurions, Social Reform, and the Career of Miriam Van Waters



The Personal and the Political: Two Case



Rigths and Representation: Women, Politics and Power in the Contemporary United States



Knowledge



Reading Little Women: The Manu Lives of a Text



Between Cultures and Politics: The Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs and the Promulgation of Women's History, 1944-1989



The Congress of American Women: Left-Feminist Peace Politics in the Cold War



The Female Generation Gap: Daughters of the Fifties and the Origins of Contemporary American Feminism



The Making of the Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia


Notes


Bibliography of the Writing of Gerda Lerner


Contributors


Index