| Description |
x, 334 pages ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction: toward a gendered social science history / Helene Silverberg -- pt. 1. Discourses of gender in the social sciences: The "sphere of women" in early-twentieth-century economics / Nancy Folbre. "Politics would undoubtedly unwoman her": gender, suffrage, and American political science / Mary G. Dietz and James Farr. "Wild West" anthropology and the disciplining of gender / Kamala Visweswaran -- pt. 2. Gender as constitutive of social science: Hull-House maps and papers: social science as women's work in the 1890s / Kathryn Kish Sklar. "A government of men": gender, the city, and the new science of politics / Helene Silverberg. The establishment of an applied social science: home economists, science, and reform at Cornell University, 1870-1930 / Nancy K. Berlage -- pt. 3. Social science as cultural critique: Gendered social knowledge: domestic discourse, Jane Addams, and the possibilities of social science / Dorothy Ross. Bringing social science back home: theory and practice in the life and work of Elsie Clews Parsons / Desley Deacon. The "self-applauding sincerity" of overreaching theory, biography as ethical practice, and the case of Mary van Kleeck / Guy Alchon. |
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Social sciences -- United States -- History.
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Social sciences. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Women social scientists -- United States -- History.
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Women social scientists. |
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Women -- United States -- History.
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Women. |
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Sex role -- United States -- History.
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Sex role. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
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Women -- United States -- History.
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Sex role -- United States -- History.
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Social sciences -- United States -- History.
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Women social scientists -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Silverberg, Helene, 1958-
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| ISBN |
0691048207 paperback alkaline paper |
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0691017492 alkaline paper |
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