Gender and American social science
Subtitle: the formative years
By: edited by Helene Silverberg.
Contributors: Silverberg, Helene, 1958-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Social sciences -- United States -- History.; Women social scientists -- United States -- History.; Women -- United States -- History.; Sex role -- United States -- History.
Description: This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge.

In contrast, this volume draws long overdue attention to the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the new social knowledge. And it challenges the privileged position that academic - and mostly male - social science has been granted in traditional histories by showing how women produced and popularized new forms of social knowledge in such places as settlement houses and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.