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The Grounding of Modern Feminism

By: Nancy F. Cott

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The Grounding of Modern Feminism

By: Nancy F. Cott

The time has come to define feminism; it is no longer possible to ignore it." The Century Magazine, 1914 In this landmark addition to scholarship, Nancy F. Cott, author of The Bonds of Womanhood, offers a new interpretation of American feminism during the early decades of this century--a period traditionally viewed as on in which women won the right to vote and then lost interest in feminist issues. Cott argues instead that his period was a time of crisis and transition from the nineteenth-century "woman movement' to the beginning of modern feminism. Many of the issues that are central to women today, says Cott, were firmly articulated in the early decades of this century. For example, the problem of defining sexual equality so as to recognize sexual difference between men and women, the ambiguous potential of a movement seeking individual freedoms for women by mobilizing sex solidarity, and the tensions involved in attaining full expression in work and love are all enduring elements of feminism seized upon by women of the 1910s and 1920s. First discussing how feminism was indebted to its predecessors, Cott shows that increasing heterogeneity and diverse loyalties among women in the early twentieth century contradicted the premise of the nineteenth-century "cause of woman" (the singular noun symbolizing the unity of the female sex). From this crisis emerged feminism, championing individual variability and refuting the premise that a singular "woman" existed. Cott focuses on the suffrage-campaign milieu in which feminism arose, giving particular attention to the character and role of the National Woman's Party from its militant suffrage days to its advocacy of the equal right amendment in the 1920s. Against prevailing interpretations of the decline of women's political activities after 1920, Cott counterposes the swelling numbers in women's voluntary associations and their political efforts. She also analyzes the pitfalls that awaited women who tried for effectiveness in the male-dominated political parties. She sets the controversy over the equal rights amendment in new context, discussing the full dimensions of the conflict as not merely over personalities, tactics, or class loyalties, but as a signal example of the modern problem of capturing sexual equality and sexual difference in law. The book explores the irony-strewn path of women who as aspiring professionals and political actors attempted to put into practice the feminist intent to replace the abstraction "woman" with, instead, "the human sex." This history--the story of women who first claimed the name feminists--builds an essential bridge between the presuffrage period and today.

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The Grounding of Modern Feminism

By: Nancy F. Cott

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The Bonds of Womanhood

"Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835

By: Nancy F. Cott

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The Bonds of Womanhood

"Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835

By: Nancy F. Cott

This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott’s acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers. “Elegant and convincing. . . . Better than any other work available, The Bonds of Womanhood describes both the classic attitudes of the nineteenth century toward women and the opposition to the oppression of women in the historical context from which they grew.”—Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books “A lovely, gentle, scholarly, and valuable book.”—Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review

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0300257988

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Fighting Words

The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars

By: Nancy F. Cott

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Fighting Words

The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars

By: Nancy F. Cott

From a Harvard historian, this riveting portrait of four trailblazing American journalists highlights the power of the press in the interwar period. In the fragile peace following the Great War, a surprising number of restless young Americans abandoned their homes and set out impulsively to see the changing world. In Fighting Words, Nancy F. Cott follows four who pursued global news -- from contested Palestine to revolutionary China, from Stalin's Moscow to Hitler's Berlin. As foreign correspondents, they became players in international politics and shaped Americans' awareness of critical interwar crises, the spreading menace of European fascism, and the likelihood of a new war -- while living romantic and sexual lives as modern and as hazardous as their journalism. An indelible portrayal of a tumultuous era with resonance for our own, Fighting Words is essential reading on the power of the press and the growth of an American sense of international responsibility.

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Basic Books

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1541699319

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Public Vows

By: Nancy F. COTT

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Public Vows

By: Nancy F. COTT

We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is and always has been a public institution. From the founding of the United States to the present day, imperatives about the necessity of marriage and its proper form have been deeply embedded in national policy, law, and political rhetoric. Legislators and judges have envisioned and enforced their preferred model of consensual, lifelong monogamy--a model derived from Christian tenets and the English common law that posits the husband as provider and the wife as dependent. In early confrontations with Native Americans, emancipated slaves, Mormon polygamists, and immigrant spouses, through the invention of the New Deal, federal income tax, and welfare programs, the federal government consistently influenced the shape of marriages. And even the immense social and legal changes of the last third of the twentieth century have not unraveled official reliance on marriage as a "pillar of the state." By excluding some kinds of marriages and encouraging others, marital policies have helped to sculpt the nation's citizenry, as well as its moral and social standards, and have directly affected national understandings of gender roles and racial difference. Public Vows is a panoramic view of marriage's political history, revealing the national government's profound role in our most private of choices. No one who reads this book will think of marriage in the same way again.

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Harvard University Press

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0674029887

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Putting the Barn Before the House

Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York

By: Nancy Grey Osterud

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Putting the Barn Before the House

Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York

By: Nancy Grey Osterud

Putting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. As she did in her previous book, Bonds of Community, for an earlier period in history, Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that families shared labor and highlights the strategies of mutuality that women adopted to ensure they had a say in family decision making. Sharing and exchanging work also linked neighboring households and knit the community together. Indeed, the culture of cooperation that women espoused laid the basis for the formation of cooperatives that enabled these dairy farmers to contest the power of agribusiness and obtain better returns for their labor. Osterud recounts this story through the words of the women and men who lived it and carefully explores their views about gender, labor, and power, which offered an alternative to the ideas that prevailed in American society. Most women saw "putting the barn before the house"—investing capital and labor in productive operations rather than spending money on consumer goods or devoting time to mere housework—as a necessary and rational course for families who were determined to make a living on the land and, if possible, to pass on viable farms to the next generation. Some women preferred working outdoors to what seemed to them the thankless tasks of urban housewives, while others worked off the farm to support the family. Husbands and wives, as well as parents and children, debated what was best and negotiated over how to allocate their limited labor and capital and plan for an uncertain future. Osterud tells the story of an agricultural community in transition amid an industrializing age with care and skill.

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Cornell University Press

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0801464641

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Women and the American Experience

A Concise History

By: Nancy Woloch

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Women and the American Experience

A Concise History

By: Nancy Woloch

Another new addition to the Overture Books programme, known for their outstanding authorship, scholarship, beautiful trade-like design and inexpensive price. Overture Books offer a unique opportunity for professors looking for an alternative to large survey texts. This concise volume reflects an enormous range of contemporary scholarship and can act as a core text for courses in US women's history, or as a supplement in a US history survey course. The book's style is a vivid, lively and exciting account of women's history.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0070715491

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Unspoken Worlds

Women's Religious Lives

By: Nancy Auer Falk,Rita M. Gross

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Unspoken Worlds

Women's Religious Lives

By: Nancy Auer Falk,Rita M. Gross

Readers will come to know and appreciate women's experiences, initiatives, and ritual activities within Hindu, Muslim, Native American, Shaker, African, Catholic, Korean, ancient Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, shamanic, and Australian traditions"--Back cover.

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0534098525

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The Bonds of Womanhood

By: Nancy F. Cott

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The Bonds of Womanhood

By: Nancy F. Cott

This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott's acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers. "Elegant and convincing. . . . Better than any other work available, The Bonds of Womanhood describes both the classic attitudes of the nineteenth century toward women and the opposition to the oppression of women in the historical context from which they grew."--Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books "A lovely, gentle, scholarly, and valuable book."--Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review

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Yale University Press

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0300254083

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Sisters of Fortune

Being the True Story of how Three Motherless Sisters Saved Their Home in New England and Raised Their Younger Brother While Their Father Went Fortune Hunting in the California Gold Rush

By: Nancy Coffey Heffernan,Ann Page Stecker

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Sisters of Fortune

Being the True Story of how Three Motherless Sisters Saved Their Home in New England and Raised Their Younger Brother While Their Father Went Fortune Hunting in the California Gold Rush

By: Nancy Coffey Heffernan,Ann Page Stecker

Uses more than 350 letters to reconstruct the lives of a trio of sister whose father, a U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire, left them in 1850 for the Gold Rush.

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UPNE

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087451651X

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S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914

Philadelphia's Literary Physician

By: Nancy Cervetti

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S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914

Philadelphia's Literary Physician

By: Nancy Cervetti

This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women’s rights, S. Weir Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers with phantom limbs and burning pain, and creation of the rest cure to treat hysteria and neurasthenia. Mitchell’s life was extraordinary—interesting in its own right and as a case study in the larger inquiry into nineteenth-century medicine and culture.

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Penn State Press

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0271060042

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British and American School Stories, 1910–1960

Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship

By: Nancy G. Rosoff,Stephanie Spencer

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British and American School Stories, 1910–1960

Fiction, Femininity, and Friendship

By: Nancy G. Rosoff,Stephanie Spencer

This book examines school and college fiction for girls in Britain and the United States, written in the first half of the twentieth century, to explore the formation and ideologies of feminine identity. Nancy G. Rosoff and Stephanie Spencer develop a transnational framework that recognises how both constructed and essential femininities transcend national boundaries. The book discusses the significance and performance of female friendship across time and place, which is central to the development of the genre, and how it functioned as an important means of informal education. Stories by Jessie Graham Flower, Pauline Lester, Alice Ross Colver, Elinor Brent-Dyer, and Dorita Fairlie Bruce are set within their historical context and then used to explore aspects of sociability, authority, responsibility, domesticity, and possibility. The distinctiveness of this book stems from the historical analysis of these sources, which have so far primarily been treated by literary scholars within their national context. Winner of the History of Education Society Anne Bloomfield Prize for the best book on history of education published in English 2017-19

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Springer

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3030059863

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Bonds of Community

The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York

By: Nancy Grey Osterud

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Bonds of Community

The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York

By: Nancy Grey Osterud

Women held a central place in long-settled rural communities like the Nanticoke Valley in upstate New York during the late nineteenth century. Their lives were limited by the bonds of kinship and labor, but farm women found strength in these bonds as well. Although they lacked control over land and were second-class citizens, these rural women did not occupy a "separate sphere." Individually and collectively, they responded to inequality by actively enlarging the dimensions of sharing in their relationships with men. Nancy Grey Osterud uses a rich store of diaries, letters, and other first-person documents, in addition to public and organizational records, to reconstruct the everyday lives of ordinary women of the past. Exploring large questions within the confines of a single community, she analyzes the ways in which notions of gender structured women's interactions with their families and neighbors, their place in the farm family economy, and their participation in organized community activities. Rare turn-of-the-century photographs of the rural landscape, formal and informal family portraits, and scenes of daily life and labor add a special dimension to Bonds of Community. It should find a ready audience among women's historians, labor historians, rural historians, and historians of New York State.

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Cornell University Press

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1501729284

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Fighting Words

The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars

By: Nancy F. Cott

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The Bold American Journalists Who Brought the World Home Between the Wars

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The Grounding of Modern Feminism

The Grounding of Modern Feminism

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The Bonds of Womanhood

The Bonds of Womanhood

Fighting Words

Fighting Words

Public Vows

Public Vows

Putting the Barn Before the House

Putting the Barn Before the House

Women and the American Experience

Women and the American Experience

Unspoken Worlds

Unspoken Worlds

The Bonds of Womanhood

The Bonds of Womanhood

Sisters of Fortune

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S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914

S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914

British and American School Stories, 1910–1960

British and American School Stories, 1910–1960

Bonds of Community

Bonds of Community

Fighting Words

Fighting Words

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