U.S. history as women's history : new feminist essays /

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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Other Authors: Kerber, Linda K., Kessler-Harris, Alice., Sklar, Kathryn Kish.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
Women > United States > History.
Women.
Gender identity.
Table of 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
  • Giving character to our whole civil polity: marriage and the public order in late nineteenth 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
  • 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
  • TheCongress 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 in America: an historical encyclopedia / Darlene Clark Hine
  • Bibliography of the writings of Gerda Lerner / compiled by Thomas Dublin.

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