Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy

Book Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction: Women's Scholarship Within and Outside the Academy, 1870-1960; Hilda L. Smith.Part I. Women and the Medieval and Early Modern Economy.Chapter 2: Ellen Annette McArthur: Establishing a Presence in the Academy; Amy Erickson.Chapter 3: Alice Clark's Critique of Capitalism; Tim Stretton.Chapter 4: Julia Cherry Spruill, Historian of Southern Colonial Women; Anna Suranyi.Part II. Politics and Citizenship in Early Modern Britain.Chapter 5: 'No Leisure for Myself: ' C.C. Stopes and British Freewomen; Hilda L. Smith.Chapter 6: C.V. Wedgwood: The Historian and the World; Melinda S. Zook.Chapter 7: Caroline Robbins: Anglo-American Historian; Lois G. Schwoerer.Part III. Women and Modern Politics.Chapter 8: The Historian and the Empress: Isabel de Madariaga's Catherine the Great; Willard Sunderland.Chapter 9: Arv?de Barine: History, Modernity, and Feminism; Whitney Walton.Chapter 10: Eleanor Flexner: Civil Rights and Feminist Activism; M. Christine Anderson.Part IV. Alternate Paths to Historical Scholarship.Chapter 11: Women's Literary History in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France: Louise de K?ralio and Henriette Guizot de Witt; Mihoko Suzuki.Chapter 12: Ruth Benedict: An Anthropologist's Historical Writings; Tracy Teslow.Chapter 13: Nancy Mitford: Lessons for Historians from a Best-Selling Author; Judith Zinsser.Part V. Conclusion.Chapter 14: Bonnie Smith, Conclusion: Understanding Women Historians' Lives and Scholarly Reputations both within and outside the Academy.- Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030084825
• ISBN13: 9783030084820
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"