U.S. history as women's history : new feminist essays / edited by Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Kathryn Kish Sklar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kerber, Linda K.

Kessler-Harris, Alice.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish.

Series:

Gender & American culture

Gender & American culture U.S. history as women's history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--History.

Women.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 477 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 the American Revolution 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 essays explore how gender serves to legitimize particular constructions of power and knowledge and to meld these into accepted practice and state policy. They show how the study of women's history has moved from the discovery of women to an evaluation of social processes and institutions.

Contents:

State information.

A constitutional right to be treated like American ladies: women and the obligations of citizenship / Linda K. Kerber

Two political cultures in the Progressive Era: the National Consumers' League and the American Association for Labor Legislation / Kathryn Kish Sklar

Putting children first: women, maternalism, and welfare in the early twentieth century / Linda Gordon

Designing women and old fools: the construction of the Social Security amendments of 1939 / Alice Kessler-Harris

(cont.) Giving character to our whole civil polity: marriage and the public order in late ninteenth century / Nancy F. Cott

Power.

Soul murder and slavery: toward a fully loaded cost accounting / Nell Irvin Painter

Gender expectations: women and early twentieth-century public health / Judith Walzer Leavitt

Separatism revisited: women's institutions, social reform, and the career of Miriam Van Waters / Estelle B. Freedman

The personal and the political: two case studies / William H. Chafe

Rights and representation: women, politics, and power in the contemporary United States / Jane Sherron De Hart

(cont.) Reading Little Women: the many lives of a text / Barbara Sicherman

Between culture and politics: the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs and the promulgation of women's history, 1944-1989 / Joyce Antler

The congress of American women: Left-Feminist peace politics in the Cold War / Amy Swerdlow

The female generation gap: daughters of the fifties and the origins of contemporary American feminism / Ruth Rosen

The making of Black Women

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-441) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9798890865205

9780807866863

0807866865