Gendered Domains : : Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History / / ed. by Dorothy O. Helly, Susan M. Reverby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Anker, Laura,; Bair, Barbara,; Baron, Ava,; Cline Cohen, Patricia,; Gordon, Linda,; Gozemba, Patricia A.,; Gullickson, Gay L.,; Helly, Dorothy O.,; Janiewski, Dolores,; Johnson, Penelope D.,; Kahn, Janet,; Keohane, Nannerl O.,; Kessler-Harris, Alice,; Ladd-Taylor, Molly,; Lee Downs, Laura,; Peirce, Leslie P.,; Reverby, Susan M.,; Rodrique, Jessie M.,; Ross, Ellen,; Schiebinger, Landa,; Shapiro, Ann-Louise,; Sicherman, Barbara,; Stacey, Judith,; Willen, Diane,
• HerausgeberIn: Helly, Dorothy O.,; Reverby, Susan M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

For over two centuries the notion that societies have been sharply divided into women's (private) and men's (public) spheres has been used both to describe and to prescribe social life. More recently, it has been applied and critiqued by feminist scholars as an explanation for women's oppression. Spanning a rich array of historical contexts—from medieval nunneries to Ottoman harems to Paris communes to electronics firms in today's Silicon Valley—the twenty essays collected here offer a pathbreaking reassessment of the significance of the concept of separate spheres.After a theoretical introduction by the editors, certain essays reexamine historians' definitions of public and private realms and show how the imposition of these categories often obscures the realities of power structures and the alterable nature of gender roles. Other chapters consider how the concept of separate domains has been used to control women's actions. Additional essays explore the limits of public/private distinctions, focusing on women's working lives, the role of the state in the family, and the ways in which women including Native North Americans, African-Americans in the birth control movement, and participants in the lesbian bar culture have themselves reshaped the model of separate spheres.Making available the best papers on the public/private theme delivered at the 1987 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Gendered Domains will be welcomed by anyone interested in women's studies, including historians, political scientists, feminist theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Converging on History -- PART I. RETHINKING SEPARATE SPHERES -- 1. The Cloistering of Medieval Nuns: Release or Repression, Reality or Fantasy? -- 2. Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power -- 3. Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: The Clash between Craft Traditions and Professional Science -- 4. Sense and Sensibility: A Case Study of Women's Reading in Late Victorian America -- 5. In and around the Lighthouse: Working-Class Lesbian Bar Culture in the I950S and I96os -- PART II. CIRCLES OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND RESISTANCE -- 6. Safety and Danger: Women on American Public Transport, 1750-1850 -- 7. Disordered Bodies/Disorderly Acts: Medical Discourse and the Female Criminal in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- 8. The Unruly Woman of the Paris Commune -- 9. True Women, Real Men: Gender, Ideology, and Social Roles in the Garvey Movement -- 10. Learning to Live "Just Like White Folks": Gender, Ethnicity, and the State in the Inland Northwest -- PART III. CONTRADICTIONS OF SOCIAL WELFARE -- 11. Women in the Public Sphere in Early Modern England: The Case of the Urban Working Poor -- 12. Good and Bad Mothers: Lady Philanthropists and London Housewives before World War I -- 13. Federal Help for Mothers: The Rise and Fall of the Sheppard-Towner Act in the I920s -- 14. A Right Not to Be Beaten: The Agency of Battered Women, 1880-I96o -- 15. The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement -- PART IV. LINKED LIVES: THE WORLDS OF GENDER, WORK, AND FAMILY -- 16. The Just Price, the Free Market, and the Value of Women -- 17. The Masculinization of Production: The Gendering of Work and Skill in U.S. Newspaper Printing, 1850-1920 -- 18. Between Taylorism and Denatalite: Women Welfare Supervisors and the Boundaries of Difference in French Metalworking Factories, 1917-I930 -- 19. Family, Work, and Community: Southern and Eastern European Immigrant Women Speak from the Connecticut Federal Writers' Project -- 20. Sexism by a Subtler Name?: Postindustrial Conditions and Postfeminist Consciousness in the Silicon Valley -- Contributors -- Index