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Feminism, sexuality, and politics : essays / by Estelle B. Freedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-
- Series:
- Gender & American culture.
- Gender and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--United States--History.
- Feminism.
- Women's studies--United States.
- Women's studies.
- Homosexuality--United States--History.
- Homosexuality.
- Sex--Political aspects--United States.
- Sex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. This book brings together eleven essays that document the evolving relationship between academic feminism and political feminism as Freedman has studied and lived it.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Identities, values, and inquiries : a personal history
- Separatism as strategy : female institution building and American feminism, 1870-1930
- Separatism revisited : women's institutions, social reform, and the career of Miriam Van Waters
- Women's networks and women's loyalties : reflections on a tenure case
- Small group pedagogy : consciousness raising in conservative times
- No turning back : the historical resilience of feminism
- The historical construction of homosexuality in the United States
- Uncontrolled desires : the response to the sexual psychopath, 1920-1960
- The prison lesbian : race, class, and the construction of the aggressive female homosexual, 1915-1965
- The burning of letters continues : elusive identities and the historical construction of sexuality
- When historical interpretation meets legal advocacy : abortion, sodomy, and same-sex marriage.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890879486
- 9780807877104
- 0807877107
- OCLC:
- 476236686
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