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U.S. History as Women's History - (Gender and American Culture) by Linda K Kerber & Alice Kessler-Harris & Kathryn Kish Sklar (Paperback)

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  • This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history.
  • About the Author: Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History at the University of Iowa, is author of Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America.
  • 488 Pages
  • Social Science, Women's Studies
  • Series Name: Gender and American Culture

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About the Book



U.S. History As Women's History: New Feminist Essays



Book Synopsis



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 colonial 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.' The book is dedicated to pioneering women's historian Gerda Lerner, whose work inspired so many of the contributors, and it includes a bibliography of her works.

The contributors include:

Linda K. Kerber on women and the obligations of citizenship
Kathryn Kish Sklar on two political cultures in the Progressive Era
Linda Gordon on women, maternalism, and welfare in the twentieth century
Alice Kessler-Harris on the Social Security Amendments of 1939
Nancy F. Cott on marriage and the public order in the late nineteenth century
Nell Irvin Painter on 'soul murder' as a legacy of slavery
Judith Walzer Leavitt on Typhoid Mary and early twentieth-century public health
Estelle B. Freedman on women's institutions and the career of Miriam Van Waters
William H. Chafe on how the personal translates into the political in the careers of Eleanor Roosevelt and Allard Lowenstein
Jane Sherron De Hart on women, politics, and power in the contemporary United States
Barbara Sicherman on reading Little Women
Joyce Antler on the Emma Lazarus Federation's efforts to promulgate women's history
Amy Swerdlow on Left-feminist peace politics in the cold war
Ruth Rosen on the origins of contemporary American feminism among daughters of the fifties
Darlene Clark Hine on the making of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia



Review Quotes




An impressive contribution to the pursuit of knowledge. Buy it, read it, assign it, and use it.

"North Carolina Historical Review"

This is a collection of work of inestimable worth and interest, valuable for all American historians, not only feminists.

"Journal of Southern History"

This is history that matters, that makes a difference.

"Journal of American History"

"An impressive contribution to the pursuit of knowledge. Buy it, read it, assign it, and use it.

"North Carolina Historical Review""

"This is a collection of work of inestimable worth and interest, valuable for all American historians, not only feminists.

"Journal of Southern History""

"This is history that matters, that makes a difference.

"Journal of American History""

There are many lessons for historians and political activists in this valuable collection.

"Women's Review of Books"



About the Author



Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History at the University of Iowa, is author of Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Alice Kessler-Harris, professor of history at Rutgers University, is author of Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton, is author of Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.24 Inches (H) x 6.13 Inches (W) x 1.29 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Gender and American Culture
Sub-Genre: Women's Studies
Genre: Social Science
Number of Pages: 488
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Linda K Kerber & Alice Kessler-Harris & Kathryn Kish Sklar
Language: English
Street Date: March 20, 1995
TCIN: 93891285
UPC: 9780807844953
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-7713
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.29 inches length x 6.13 inches width x 9.24 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.81 pounds
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