| Description |
viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The evolution of economic and political citizenship for women. Beyond the waves: rethinking the history of feminisms / Estelle B. Freedman -- African feminisms: the struggle continues / Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- Feminism, empire, and the fate of national histories: the case of Victorian Britain / Antoinette Burton -- Gender construction in action. When womens studies isn't about women: writing about drag queens / Leila J. Rupp -- Anthropology, gender, and narrative / Caroline B. Brettell -- The queerness of Victorian marriage reform / Sharon Marcus -- Return from exile: community, nation, and gender in George Eliot's fiction / Deborah Epstein Nord -- Labor, class, and space. Writing women's history: what's feminism got to do with it? / Jacqueline Jones -- Independence herself: a new spin on old stories about household production in early New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Stealing happiness: women shoplifters in Georgian England / Adela Pinch -- Gender sharing of labor: an anthropological perspective / Shanshan Du -- Understanding agoraphobia: women, men, and the historical geography of urban anxiety / Felicity Callard -- Rights, reforms, and welfare. The politics of gender and schooling in the progressive era / Miriam Cohen -- Women's history with the politics left in: Feminist studies of the U.S. welfare state / Felicia A. Kornbluh -- Patriarchy, racism, and business interests: cross-class support for welfare entrenchment in the United States / Ellen Reese -- Metaphors of class and race: comparing German and American feminisms / Myra Marx Ferree -- Knowledge production. Taking the man out of the humanities: how feminism and technology are transforming the discipline / Martha Nell Smith -- The art of darkness: Willa Cather's aesthetics / Michele Aina Barale -- Feminist film theory and the problem of liking characters / Sabrina Barton -- Feminism and art history: past achievements and new directions / Susan Casteras. |
| Subject |
Women's studies.
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Women's studies. |
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Women -- Research.
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Women -- Research. |
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Women. |
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Women scholars.
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Women scholars. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Berkin, Carol.
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Pinch, Judith L.
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Appel, Carole S.
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| ISBN |
0131850881 alkaline paper |
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9780131850880 alkaline paper |
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