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Gendered domains : rethinking public and private in women's history : essays from the Seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women / edited by Dorothy O. Helly, Susan M. Reverby

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Author:
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (7th : 1987 : Wellesley College)  Search this
Helly, Dorothy O  Search this
Reverby, Susan  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
History
Date:
1992
Notes:
Held at Wellesley College, June 1987.
Contents:
Introduction : converging on history / Susan M. Reverby and Dorothy O. Helly -- The cloistering of medieval nuns : release or repression, reality or fantasy? / Penelope D. Johnson -- Beyond harem walls : Ottoman royal women and the exercise of power / Leslie P. Peirce -- Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy : the clash between craft traditions and professional science / Londa Schiebinger -- Sense and sensibility : a case study of women's reading in late Victorian America / Barbara Sicherman -- In and around the lighthouse : working-class lesbian bar culture in the 1950s and 1960s / Janet Kahn and Patricia A. Gozemba -- Safety and danger : women on American public transport, 1750-1850 / Patricia Cline Cohen -- Disordered bodies/disorderly acts : medical discourse and the female criminal in nineteenth-century Paris / Ann-Louise Shapiro
The unruly woman of the Paris commune / Gay L. Gullickson -- True women, real men : gender, ideology, and social roles in the Garvey movement / Barbara Bair -- Learning to live "just like white folks" : gender, ethnicity, and the state in the inland northwest / Dolores Janiewski -- Women in the public sphere in early modern England : the case of the urban working poor / Diane Willen -- Good and bad mothers : lady philanthropists and London housewives before World War I / Ellen Ross -- Federal help for mothers : the rise and fall of the Sheppard-Towner Act in the 1920s / Molly Ladd-Taylor -- A right not to be beaten : the agency of battered women, 1880-1960 / Linda Gordon -- The Black community and the birth control movement / Jessie M. Rodrique -- The just price, the free market, and the value of women / Alice Kessler-Harris
The masculinization of production : the gendering of work and skill in U.S. newspaper printing, 1850-1920 / Ava Baron -- Between Taylorism and dénatalité : women welfare supervisors and the boundaries of difference in French metalworking factories, 1917-1930 / Laura Lee Downs -- Family, work, and community : southern and eastern European immigrant women speak from the Connecticut Federal Writers' Project / Laura Anker -- Sexism by a subtler name? : postindustrial conditions and postfeminist consciousness in the Silicon Valley / Judith Stacey
Topic:
Women--History  Search this
Women in public life  Search this
Call number:
HQ1121.B43 1987X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_445108