Feminism, sexuality, and politics
Subtitle: essays
By: by Estelle B. Freedman.
Series: Gender and American culture; Gender & American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780807830314; 9780807856949
Subjects: Feminism -- United States -- History; Women's studies -- United States; Homosexuality -- United States -- History; Sex -- Political aspects -- United States
Description: "One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. Over the past thirty years, she has produced a body of work in which scholarship and politics have never been mutually exclusive. This collection brings together eleven essays - eight previously published and three new - that document the evolving relationship between academic feminism and political feminism as Freedman has studied and lived it."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Identities, values, and inquiries : a personal history; title: Separatism as strategy : female institution building and American feminism, 1870-1930; title: Separatism revisited : women's institutions, social reform, and the career of Miriam Van Waters; title: Women's networks and women's loyalties : reflections on a tenure case; title: Small group pedagogy : consciousness raising in conservative times; title: No turning back : the historical resilience of feminism; title: The historical construction of homosexuality in the United States; title: Uncontrolled desires : the response to the sexual psychopath, 1920-1960; title: The prison lesbian : race, class, and the construction of the aggressive female homosexual, 1915-1965; title: The burning of letters continues : elusive identities and the historical construction of sexuality; title: When historical interpretation meets legal advocacy : abortion, sodomy, and same-sex marriage.