Generations of women historians : within and beyond the academy / Hilda L. Smith, Melinda S. Zook, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Hilda L., 1941- editor.

Zook, Melinda S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women historians.

Physical Description:

xvi, 320 pages : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

"This collection focuses on generations of early women historians, seeking to identify the intellectual milieu and professional realities that framed their lives. It moves beyond treating them as simply individuals and looks to the social and intellectual forces that encouraged them to study history and, at the same time, would often limit the reach and define the nature of their study. 0This collection of essays speaks to female practitioners of history over the past four centuries that published original histories, some within a university setting and some outside. By analysing the values these early women scholars faced, readers can understand the broader social values that led women historians to exist as a unit apart from the career path of their male colleagues"--back cover.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Women's Scholarship Within and Outside the Academy, 1870-1960 / Hilda L. Smith

Part I. Women and the Medieval and Early Modern Economy : 2. Ellen Annette McArthur: Establishing a Presence in the Academy / Amy Louise Erickson

3. Alice Clark's Critique of Capitalism / Tim Stretton

4. Julia Cherry Spruill, Historian of Southern Colonial Women / Anna Suranyi

Part II. Politics and Citizenship in Early Modern Britain : 5. "No Leisure for Myself": C.C. Stopes and British Freewomen / Hilda L. Smith

6. C.V. Wedgwood: The Historian and the World / Melinda S. Zook

7. Caroline Robbins: An Anglo-American Historian / Lois G. Schwoerer

Part III. Women and Modern Politics : 8. Arvède Barine: History, Modernity, and Feminism / Whitney Walton

9. The Historian and the Empress: Isabel de Madariaga's Catherine the Great / Willard Sunderland

10. Eleanor Flexner: Civil Rights and Feminist Activism and Writing / M. Christine Anderson

Part IV. Alternate Paths to Historical Scholarship : 11. Women's Literary History in Late Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century France: Louise de Kéralio and Henriette Guizot de Witt / Mihoko Suzuki

12. Ruth Benedict: An Anthropologist's Historical Writings / Tracy Teslow

13. Nancy Mitford: Lessons for Historians from a Best-Selling Author / Judith P. Zinsser

Part V. Conclusion : 14. Conclusion: Understanding Women Historians' Lives and Scholarly Reputations Both Within and Outside the Academy / Bonnie G. Smith

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319775677

9783319775678

OCLC:

1022789076