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Gender and American social science : the formative years /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: toward a gendered social science history / Helene Silverberg
- pt. 1. Discourses of gender in the social sciences: The "sphere of women" in early-twentieth-century economics / Nancy Folbre. "Politics would undoubtedly unwoman her": gender, suffrage, and American political science / Mary G. Dietz and James Farr. "Wild West" anthropology and the disciplining of gender / Kamala Visweswaran
- pt. 2. Gender as constitutive of social science: Hull-House maps and papers: social science as women's work in the 1890s / Kathryn Kish Sklar. "A government of men": gender, the city, and the new science of politics / Helene Silverberg. The establishment of an applied social science: home economists, science, and reform at Cornell University, 1870-1930 / Nancy K. Berlage
- pt. 3. Social science as cultural critique: Gendered social knowledge: domestic discourse, Jane Addams, and the possibilities of social science / Dorothy Ross. Bringing social science back home: theory and practice in the life and work of Elsie Clews Parsons / Desley Deacon. The "self-applauding sincerity" of overreaching theory, biography as ethical practice, and the case of Mary van Kleeck / Guy Alchon.