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Author : Heidi Hemming,Julie Hemming Savage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Women
ISBN : 0982127103
Enhanced by photographs, reproductions, and sidebars, a survey of the role of women in American history covers such areas as health, work, education, amusements, the arts, work, and beauty.
Author : Mari Jo Buhle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252010450
Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women's rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women's efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women's emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.
Author : Brittney C. Cooper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252099540
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how--and who--produced racial knowledge.
Author : Mari Jo Buhle,Teresa Murphy,Jane Gerhard
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0132278421
Author : Mari Jo Buhle,Teresa Murphy,Jane F. Gerhard
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132299533
A chronological survey of the role and experience of women in American history, Women and the Making of America examines the issue of power in women's lives and women's history. Examining relationships between men and women as well as the diverse experiences of different women, the book explores how women were central to the making of America's history.
Author : Julie Des Jardins
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861523
In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America, Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II, a period in which history became professionalized as an increasingly masculine field of scientific inquiry. Des Jardins shows how women nevertheless transformed the profession during these years in their roles as writers, preservationists, educators, archivists, government workers, and social activists. Des Jardins explores the work of a wide variety of women historians, both professional and amateur, popular and scholarly, conservative and radical, white and nonwhite. Although their ability to earn professional credentials and gain research access to official documents was limited by their gender (and often by their race), these historians addressed important new questions and represented social groups traditionally omitted from the historical record, such as workers, African Americans, Native Americans, and religious minorities. Assessing the historical contributions of Mary Beard, Zora Neale Hurston, Angie Debo, Mari Sandoz, Lucy Salmon, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dorothy Porter, Nellie Neilson, and many others, Des Jardins argues that women working within the broadest confines of the historical enterprise collectively brought the new perspectives of social and cultural history to the study of a multifaceted American past. In the process, they not only developed the field of women's history but also influenced the creation of our national memory in the twentieth century.
Author : Carol Hymowitz,Michaele Weissman
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307790439
From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society. Note: This edition does not include photographs.
Author : Heidi Hemming,Julie Hemming Savage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Women
ISBN : 0982127111
Enhanced by photographs, reproductions, and sidebars, a survey of the role of women in American history covers such areas as health, work, education, amusements, the arts, work, and beauty.
Author : H Addington Bruce
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022168568
In this groundbreaking study of women's history, Henry Addington Bruce examines the role of women in shaping American society from colonial times to the early 20th century. From the struggles of suffragists to the achievements of female scholars and artists, Bruce provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and triumphs of women throughout American history. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of feminism or the social history of America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393322576
The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.
Author : Lillian Faderman
Publisher : HMH
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547348407
A unique and “often quite moving” look at gay women’s role in US history (The Washington Post). In this “essential and impassioned addition to American history,” the three-time Lambda Literary Award winner and author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers focuses on a select group of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century lesbians who were in the forefront of the battle to procure the rights and privileges that large numbers of Americans enjoy today (Kirkus Reviews). Hoping to “set the record straight (or, in this case, unstraight)” for all Americans and provide a “usable past” for lesbians in particular, Lillian Faderman persuasively argues that the sexual orientation of her subjects may in fact have facilitated their accomplishments. With impeccably drawn portraits of such seminal figures as Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Eleanor Roosevelt, To Believe in Women “will raise eyebrows and consciousness” (Dianne Wood Middlebrook). As Faderman writes in her introduction, “This is a book about how millions of American women became what they are now: full citizens, educated, and capable of earning a decent living for themselves.” A landmark work of impeccable research and compelling readability, To Believe in Women is an enlightening and surprising read. “For those who need a dose of pride and a slice of history, Faderman’s portraits should strike a popular note. ‘To Believe in Women’ is a decent starting point for learning about these pioneers and their contributions to American life.” —The New York Times
Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0141192054
When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world. 'One of the most influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.' New York Times 'Feminism ...... began with the work of a single person: Friedan.' Nicholas Lemann With a new Introduction by Lionel Shriver
Author : Ruth Oldenziel
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9053563814
A pioneering study of the relations between gender and technology.
Author : Phebe Ann Hanaford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X000964119
Consists of chapters by subject, including women reformers, inventors, lawyers etc.
Author : Melissa A. McEuen
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820337586
Drawing on war propaganda, popular advertising, voluminous government records, and hundreds of letters and other accounts written by women in the 1940s, Melissa A. McEuen examines how extensively women's bodies and minds became "battlegrounds" in the U.S. fight for victory in World War II. Women were led to believe that the nation's success depended on their efforts--not just on factory floors, but at their dressing tables, bathroom sinks, and laundry rooms. They were to fill their arsenals with lipstick, nail polish, creams, and cleansers in their battles to meet the standards of ideal womanhood touted in magazines, newspapers, billboards, posters, pamphlets and in the rapidly expanding pinup genre. Scrutinized and sexualized in new ways, women understood that their faces, clothes, and comportment would indicate how seriously they took their responsibilities as citizens. McEuen also shows that the wartime rhetoric of freedom, democracy, and postwar opportunity coexisted uneasily with the realities of a racially stratified society. The context of war created and reinforced whiteness, and McEuen explores how African Americans grappled with whiteness as representing the true American identity. Using perspectives of cultural studies and feminist theory, Making War, Making Women offers a broad look at how women on the American home front grappled with a political culture that used their bodies in service of the war effort.