Gender and American Social Science : : The Formative Years / / ed. by Helene Silverberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Alchon, Guy,; Berlage, Nancy K.,; Deacon, Desley,; Dietz, Mary G.,; Farr, James,; Folbre, Nancy,; Ross, Dorothy,; Silverberg, Helene,; Sklar, Kathryn Kish,; Visweswaran, Kamala,
• HerausgeberIn: Silverberg, Helene,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Gender and American Social Science -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Toward a Gendered Social Science History -- PART ONE: DISCOURSES OF GENDER IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES -- CHAPTER 2 The "Sphere of Women" in Early-Twentieth-Century Economics -- CHAPTER 3 "Politics Would Undoubtedly Unwoman Her": Gender, Suffrage, and American Political Science -- CHAPTER 4 "Wild West" Anthropology and the Disciplining of Gender -- PART TWO: GENDER AS CONSTITUTIVE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE -- CHAPTER 5 Hull-House Maps and Papers: Social Science as Women's Work in the 1890s -- CHAPTER 6 "A Government of Men": Gender, the City, and the New Science of Politics -- CHAPTER 7 The Establishment of an Applied Social Science: Home Economists, Science, and Reform at Cornell University, 1870-1930 -- PART THREE. SOCIAL SCIENCE AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE -- CHAPTER 8 Gendered Social Knowledge: Domestic Discourse, Jane Addams, and the Possibilities of Social Science -- CHAPTER 9 Bringing Social Science Back Home: Theory and Practice in the Life and Work of Elsie Clews Parsons -- CHAPTER 10 The "Self-Applauding Sincerity" of Overreaching Theory, Biography as Ethical Practice, and the Case of Mary van Kleeck -- INDEX