Women and Power in American History: From 1870
Author : Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Glenna Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0199769737
An encyclopedia of American women's history, this comprehensive reference book features in-depth articles on trends (e.g. birthrates, suburban growth), social movements (civil rights, feminism), ideas and concepts (domesticity, consciousness-raising), institutions (Children's Bureau, women in Congress), organizations (Girl Scouts of America, League of Women Voters), events (American Revolution), issues (abortion, Equal Rights Amendment), key legal cases (Roe v Wade, Muller v Oregon), laws and constitutional amendments, documents and publications (Ramona, Declaration of Sentiments), ethnic and social groups (African American women, Latinas), overviews (women's health, women in music and literature), and biographies of notable American women. This Companion is a perfect supplement to The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States. Oxford's Student Companions to American History are state-of-the-art references for school and home, specifically designed and written for ages 12 through adult. Each book is a concise but comprehensive A-to-Z guide to a major historical period or theme in U.S. history, with articles on key issues and prominent individuals. The authors--distinguished scholars well-known in their areas of expertise--ensure that the entries are accurate, up-to-date, and accessible. Special features include an introductory section on how to use the book, further reading lists, cross-references, chronology, and full index.
Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1988-12-31
Category : History
ISBN :
This selection of source documents and analytical essays focuses on those issues in women's history about which there is substantial disagreement and discussion among historians. Topics include the status of white women in colonial America, family lives of enslaved women, the many varieties of feminism in the 19th and 20th centuries, and campaigns for suffrage and social reform. ISBN 0-669-14470-8 (pbk.): $14.00.
Author : Linda K. Kerber
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807866865
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
Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782834532
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template. A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, 'it's time for change - and now!' From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.
Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
The study and teaching of history unexpectedly emerged as the subject of intense public debate.
Author : Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Women
ISBN :
The Second Edition of Women and Power in American History includes fourteen new articles (six in volume one; eight in volume two) that reflect changing perspectives on women and gender in American history, providing expanded coverage of race, ethnicity, and public policy. A new Worldwide Web section in each volume lists annotated electronic resources relevant to the themes presented in "Women and Power." New articles in volume one: "The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier," Kathleen M. Brown " 'To Use Her as His Wife': An Extraordinary Paternity Suit in the 1740s," Kathryn Kish Sklar " 'Daughters of Liberty': Religious Women in Revolutionary New England," Laurel Thatcher Ulrich "Women and Work in Nineteenth-Century New England," Thomas Dublin "Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement: Angelina and Sara Grimke in 1837," Kathryn Kish Sklar "Reproductive Control and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century," Janet Farrell Brodie
Author : Gerda Lerner
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
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Author : Carol Faulkner
Publisher : Gender and Race in American Hi
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464215
Explores gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history.