Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History

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Gendered Domains

Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History

Edited by: Dorothy O. Helly and Susan M. Reverby

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1992

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Making available the best papers on the public/private theme delivered at the 1987 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Gendered Domains will be welcomed by anyone interested in women's studies, including historians, political scientists, feminist theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers.

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Dorothy O. Helly is Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Susan M. Reverby is Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought and Director, Women's Studies Program, Wellesley College.

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Genuinely feminist and provocative scholarship; in telling the stories of all kinds of women, more and less empowered or oppressed, the essays inspire additional critiques and questions.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Preface Nannerl O. Keohane Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: Converging on History Susan M. Reverby and Dorothy O. Helly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. RETHINKING SEPARATE SPHERES
1. The Cloistering of Medieval Nuns: Release or Repression, Reality or Fantasy? Penelope D. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power Leslie P. Peirce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: The Clash between Craft Traditions and Professional Science Landa Schiebinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4. Sense and Sensibility: A Case Study of Women's Reading in Late Victorian America Barbara Sicherman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. In and around the Lighthouse: Working-Class Lesbian Bar Culture in the I950S and I96os Janet Kahn and Patricia A. Gozemba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
PART II. CIRCLES OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND RESISTANCE
6. Safety and Danger: Women on American Public Transport, 1750-1850 Patricia Cline Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7. Disordered Bodies/Disorderly Acts: Medical Discourse and the Female Criminal in Nineteenth-Century Paris Ann-Louise Shapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8. The Unruly Woman of the Paris Commune Gay L. Gullickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
9. True Women, Real Men: Gender, Ideology, and Social Roles in the Garvey Movement Barbara Bair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
10. Learning to Live "Just Like White Folks": Gender, Ethnicity, and the State in the Inland Northwest Dolores Janiewski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
PART III. CONTRADICTIONS OF SOCIAL WELFARE
11. Women in the Public Sphere in Early Modern England: The Case of the Urban Working Poor Diane Willen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
12. Good and Bad Mothers: Lady Philanthropists and London Housewives before World War I Ellen Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
13. Federal Help for Mothers: The Rise and Fall of the Sheppard-Towner Act in the I920s Molly Ladd-Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
14. A Right Not to Be Beaten: The Agency of Battered Women, 1880-I96o Linda Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
15. The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement Jessie M. Rodrique Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
PART IV. LINKED LIVES: THE WORLDS OF GENDER, WORK, AND FAMILY
16. The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women Alice Kessler-Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
17. The Masculinization of Production: The Gendering of Work and Skill in U.S. Newspaper Printing, 1850-1920 Ava Baron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
18. Between Taylorism and Denatalite: Women Welfare Supervisors and the Boundaries of Difference in French Metalworking Factories, 1917-I930 Laura Lee Downs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
19. Family, Work, and Community: Southern and Eastern European Immigrant Women Speak from the Connecticut Federal Writers' Project Laura Anker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
20. Sexism by a Subtler Name?: Postindustrial Conditions and Postfeminist Consciousness in the Silicon Valley Judith Stacey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345

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9781501720741

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368

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720741

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U.S. HISTORY; WOMENS STUDIES

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