U.S. history as women's history : new feminist essays / edited by Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Kathryn Kish Sklar.
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, politica...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1995]
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-441) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807821853 9780807821855 0807844950 9780807844953 |