{"product_id":"u-s-history-as-womens-history-new-feminist-essays-paperback","title":"U.S. History As Women's History: New Feminist Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinda K. Kerber\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlice Kessler-Harris\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKathryn Kish Sklar\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors include: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinda K. Kerber on women and the obligations of citizenship \u003cbr\u003eKathryn Kish Sklar on two political cultures in the Progressive Era \u003cbr\u003eLinda Gordon on women, maternalism, and welfare in the twentieth century \u003cbr\u003eAlice Kessler-Harris on the Social Security Amendments of 1939 \u003cbr\u003eNancy F. Cott on marriage and the public order in the late nineteenth century \u003cbr\u003eNell Irvin Painter on 'soul murder' as a legacy of slavery \u003cbr\u003eJudith Walzer Leavitt on Typhoid Mary and early twentieth-century public health \u003cbr\u003eEstelle B. Freedman on women's institutions and the career of Miriam Van Waters \u003cbr\u003eWilliam H. Chafe on how the personal translates into the political in the careers of Eleanor Roosevelt and Allard Lowenstein \u003cbr\u003eJane Sherron De Hart on women, politics, and power in the contemporary United States \u003cbr\u003eBarbara Sicherman on reading \u003ci\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJoyce Antler on the Emma Lazarus Federation's efforts to promulgate women's history \u003cbr\u003eAmy Swerdlow on Left-feminist peace politics in the cold war \u003cbr\u003eRuth Rosen on the origins of contemporary American feminism among daughters of the fifties \u003cbr\u003eDarlene Clark Hine on the making of \u003ci\u003eBlack Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 488\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.29 x 9.24 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451046150322,"sku":"9780807844953","price":68.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b884dbec81495d7f15a0f56f6ba717f6.webp?v=1778793680","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/u-s-history-as-womens-history-new-feminist-essays-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}