Research Catalog

Title

Exploring women's studies : looking forward, looking back / edited by Carol Berkin, Judith L. Pinch, Carole S. Appel ; introduction by Anne Firor Scott.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Berkin, Carol.
• Pinch, Judith L.
• Appel, Carole S.

Description

viii, 374 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Women's studies
• Women scholars
• Women > Research

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 06-8570

ISBN

0131850881 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005042955

OCLC

57391427

Title

Exploring women's studies : looking forward, looking back / edited by Carol Berkin, Judith L. Pinch, Carole S. Appel ; introduction by Anne Firor Scott.

Imprint

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Berkin, Carol.

Pinch, Judith L.

Appel, Carole S.

Research Call Number

JFE 06-8570