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...

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