U.S. History As Women's History

This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women’s history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors, 'intrudes into regions of the American historical narrative from which women have been excluded or in which gender relations were not thought to play a part.' The book is dedicated to pioneering women’s historian Gerda Lerner, whose work inspired so many of the contributors, and it includes a bibliography of her works.The contributors include:Linda K. Kerber on women and the obligations of citizenshipKathryn Kish Sklar on two political cultures in the Progressive EraLinda Gordon on women, maternalism, and welfare in the twentieth centuryAlice Kessler-Harris on the Social Security Amendments of 1939Nancy F. Cott on marriage and the public order in the late nineteenth centuryNell Irvin Painter on 'soul murder' as a legacy of slaveryJudith Walzer Leavitt on Typhoid Mary and early twentieth-century public healthEstelle B. Freedman on women’s institutions and the career of Miriam Van WatersWilliam H. Chafe on how the personal translates into the political in the careers of Eleanor Roosevelt and Allard LowensteinJane Sherron De Hart on women, politics, and power in the contemporary United StatesBarbara Sicherman on reading Little WomenJoyce Antler on the Emma Lazarus Federation’s efforts to promulgate women’s historyAmy Swerdlow on Left-feminist peace politics in the cold warRuth Rosen on the origins of contemporary American feminism among daughters of the fiftiesDarlene Clark Hine on the making of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia