Gender and American Social Science (eBook)

The Formative Years

Helene Silverberg (Herausgeber)

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2021
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22768-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: academic freedom trials • activism • Addams, Jane • Advocacy • Alice Kessler-Harris • American Economic Association • anthropologist • Anthropology • Babcock, Howard E. • Breckinridge, Sophonisba • Bruere, Martha Bensley • Bureau of Labor Statistics • Calkins, Mary Whiton • Cambridge University Press • Career • Catharine Beecher • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Child labor • Christianity • Civilization • classes in the United States • Cornell University Press • Cox Stevenson, Matilda • cultural relativism • Davis, Katharine Bement • domesticity • Economics • economist • Edith Abbott • Ellen gates Starr • Elsie Clews Parsons • Employment • ethnography • Ethnology • Evolutionary Theory • Exclusion • family wage economy • femininity • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • feminist theory • Fletcher, Alice • Florence Kelley • Franz Boas • Gender Analysis • Gender Role • Goldenweiser, Alexander • Hammond, Margaret • Harvard University Press • higher education and women • Home economics • Household • Human Relations (journal) • Ideology • Indigenous peoples of the Americas • industrialisation • Institution • James, William • Jane Addams • John Dewey • Jones, Nellie Kedzie • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss • Kingsbury, Susan • Laboulaye, Edouard de • Labour movement • Lecture • Legislation • Leupp, Francis • Literature • Macfadden, Bernarr • Manifest Destiny • Mary Beard (classicist) • Masculinity • maternalism and motherhood • M. Carey Thomas • mother • Mrs. • Nation • National Consumers League • National Municipal League • National Woman Suffrage Association • Native Americans • Native Americans in the United States • newspaper • Nietzsche, Friedrich • Oxford University Press • Pamphlet • Parsons, Elsie Clews • Patriarchy • Pearson, Thomas • philanthropy • Philosophy • Platt Smith, Erminnie • Political culture • Political Economy • Political Science • Politics • Pragmatism • Profession • professionalization • Progressive Era • progressivism • Psychology • Public Policy • Radicalism (historical) • Reformism • Religion • rhetoric • Richard T. Ely • Romanticism • Rossiter, Margaret • Routledge • Russell Sage Foundation • Scholarly method • Scientist • separate spheres • settlement movement • Slavery • smith college • Social Action • Social Darwinism • Social Economy • social Progress • Social Science • Sociology • Sophonisba Breckinridge • Spencer Herbert • Suffrage • Suffrage movement • Superiority (short story) • Susan B. Anthony • The Other Hand • the woman question • Trade Union • trade union activity • University of Chicago Press • urbanization • van Kleeck, Eliza Mayer • Victorian gender system • welfare • women’s colleges • Women's history • women's studies • women's suffrage • Women's Trade Union League • Writing • Yale University Press
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22768-3 / 0691227683
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22768-9 / 9780691227689