Gender and American Social Science
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-04820-8 (ISBN)
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. The book's varied perspectives, building on recent work in history and feminist theory, break from the traditional view of the social sciences as objective bodies of expert knowledge.
Contributors examine new forms of social knowledge, rather, as discourses about gender relations and as methods of cultural critique. The book will create a new framework for understanding the development of both social science and the history of gender relations in the United States. The contributors are: Guy Alchon, Nancy Berlage, Desley Deacon, Mary Dietz, James Farr, Nancy Folbre, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Dorothy Ross, Helene Silverberg, and Kamala Visweswaran.
Helene Silverberg is currently a student at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. She previously taught in the political science departments at Princeton University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
AcknowledgmentsContributorsCh. 1Introduction: Toward a Gendered Social Science History3Ch. 2The "Sphere of Women" in Early-Twentieth-Century Economics35Ch. 3"Politics Would Undoubtedly Unwoman Her": Gender, Suffrage, and American Political Science61Ch. 4"Wild West" Anthropology and the Disciplining of Gender86Ch. 5Hull-House Maps and Papers: Social Science as Women's Work in the 1890s127Ch. 6"A Government of Men": Gender, the City, and the New Science of Politics156Ch. 7The Establishment of an Applied Social Science: Home Economists, Science, and Reform at Cornell University, 1870-1930185Ch. 8Gendered Social Knowledge: Domestic Discourse, Jane Addams, and the Possibilities of Social Science235Ch. 9Bringing Social Science Back Home: Theory and Practice in the Life and Work of Elsie Clews Parsons265Ch. 10The "Self-Applauding Sincerity" of Overreaching Theory, Biography as Ethical Practice, and the Case of Mary van Kleeck293Index327
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.5.1998 |
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| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 482 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-04820-7 / 0691048207 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-04820-8 / 9780691048208 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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