Exploring women's studies
Subtitle: looking forward, looking back
By: edited by Carol Berkin, Judith L. Pinch, Carole S. Appel ; introduction by Anne Firor Scott
Contributors: Berkin, Carol; Pinch, Judith L; Appel, Carole S
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; Pearson
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Women's studies; Women -- Research; Women scholars
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The evolution of economic and political citizenship for women. Beyond the waves: rethinking the history of feminisms / Estelle B. Freedman; title: African feminisms: the struggle continues / Beverly Guy-Sheftall; title: Feminism, empire, and the fate of national histories: the case of Victorian Britain / Antoinette Burton; title: Gender construction in action. When womens studies isn't about women: writing about drag queens / Leila J. Rupp; title: Anthropology, gender, and narrative / Caroline B. Brettell; title: The queerness of Victorian marriage reform / Sharon Marcus; title: Return from exile: community, nation, and gender in George Eliot's fiction / Deborah Epstein Nord; title: Labor, class, and space. Writing women's history: what's feminism got to do with it? / Jacqueline Jones; title: Independence herself: a new spin on old stories about household production in early New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich; title: Stealing happiness: women shoplifters in Georgian England / Adela Pinch; title: Gender sharing of labor: an anthropological perspective / Shanshan Du; title: Understanding agoraphobia: women, men, and the historical geography of urban anxiety / Felicity Callard; title: Rights, reforms, and welfare. The politics of gender and schooling in the progressive era / Miriam Cohen; title: Women's history with the politics left in:  Feminist studies of the U.S. welfare state / Felicia A. Kornbluh; title: Patriarchy, racism, and business interests: cross-class support for welfare entrenchment in the United States / Ellen Reese; title: Metaphors of class and race: comparing German and American feminisms / Myra Marx Ferree; title: Knowledge production. Taking the man out of the humanities: how feminism and technology are transforming the discipline / Martha Nell Smith; title: The art of darkness: Willa Cather's aesthetics / Michele Aina Barale; title: Feminist film theory and the problem of liking characters / Sabrina Barton; title: Feminism and art history: past achievements and new directions / Susan Casteras