Voices of women historians : the personal, the political, the professional
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Voices of women historians : the personal, the political, the professional
Indiana University Press, c1999
- : cloth
- : pbk.
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  Kyoto
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  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
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  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: pbk. ISBN 9780253212757
Description
This collection of personal narratives by former officers of the Coordinating Council for Women in History weaves together past and present in women's history, and women in the historical profession. Recording the diverse paths taken to become historians, essays describe how a group of women negotiated the often competing demands of being a woman, a professional, and a political activist during the turbulent 1960s through the challenges of the 1990s.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Standpoints on Hard Ground by Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri
1. Women among the Professors of History: The Story of a Process of Transformation by Gerda Lerner
2. Three Faces of Trevia: Identity, Activism and Intellect by Berenice A. Carroll
3. Regionalism, Feminism and Class: Conceiving the Field of Women's History by Hilda Smith
4. On the Importance of Taking Notes (and Keeping Them) by Linda K. Kerber
5. The Shaping of a Feminist Historian by Sandi E. Cooper
6. Making and Writing History Together by Renate Bridenthal
7. Going Against the Grain: The Making of an Independent Scholar by Karen Offen
8. Reassertion of Patriarchy at the End of the Twentieth Century by Joan Hoff
9. Bahupath Perie: The Long Trek by Nupur Chaudhuri
10. Two Catalysts in My Life: Voter Registration Drives and CCWHP by Mollie C. Davis
11. A Graduate Student's Odyssey by Frances Richardson Keller
12. "Drop by Drop the Bottle Fills" by Margaret Strobel
13. In Circles Comes Change by Eileen Boris
14. Domestic Constraints: Motherhood as Life and Subject by Lynn Y. Weiner
15. Activism and the Academy by Barbara Winslow
16. The Emma Thread: Communitarian Values, Global Visions by Nancy A. Hewitt
17. Clio on the Margins by Mary Elizabeth Perry
18. Que se yo: A Historian in Training by Nancy Mirabal [please note spelling of chapter: Que se(accent accute) yo]
19. A New Generation of Women Historians by Crystal Feimster
20. Bibliography: Women Historians and How They Are Made by Barbara Penny Kanner
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: cloth ISBN 9780253334947
Description
"Voices of Women Historians" weaves together past and present in women's history, and women in the historical profession. Recording the diverse paths taken to become historians, essays describe how a group of women negotiated the often competing demands of being a woman, a professional, and a political activist during the turbulent 1960s through the challenges of the 1990s. The Coordinating Council for Women in History evolved out of the arrival of a new cohort of women historians who turned their scholarly focus to the recovery of women's experiences. In so doing, they created and legitimated the field of women's history. The contributors to this volume, former CCWH officers, mark the thirtieth anniversary of the organisation while commemorating three decades of feminist activism and scholarship. But beyond the celebration of personal and professional progress, this collection contributes to the emerging historiography of women's history and the literature on women in the professions.
Essays examine the influence of the modern women's liberation movement and various feminist philosophies on individual lives and academic careers, demonstrating how history and activism were intertwined. Some women began by keeping their writing of history separate from anti-war or civil rights politics; for others the women's movement led them to women's history. Those who entered graduate school in the 1960s suffered from overt discrimination as mothers and as women. For some this was the push that catapulted them into the study of women. Some essays suggest that women academics have experienced a life cycle different from their male counterparts, with motherhood restricting, delaying, or transforming career paths. Contributors stand in dialogue with each other, sometimes recounting the same incident from different vantage points, sometimes disagreeing about the major trends in the field. Contributors represent three generations of women historians situated in different places within the academy and within the field of women's history, but all of them have dedicated themselves to women's history and women as historians.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Standpoints on Hard Ground by Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri 1. Women among the Professors of History: The Story of a Process of Transformation by Gerda Lerner 2. Three Faces of Trevia: Identity, Activism and Intellect by Berenice A. Carroll 3. Regionalism, Feminism and Class: Conceiving the Field of Women's History by Hilda Smith 4. On the Importance of Taking Notes (and Keeping Them) by Linda K. Kerber 5. The Shaping of a Feminist Historian by Sandi E. Cooper 6. Making and Writing History Together by Renate Bridenthal 7. Going Against the Grain: The Making of an Independent Scholar by Karen Offen 8. Reassertion of Patriarchy at the End of the Twentieth Century by Joan Hoff 9. Bahupath Perie: The Long Trek by Nupur Chaudhuri 10. Two Catalysts in My Life: Voter Registration Drives and CCWHP by Mollie C. Davis 11. A Graduate Student's Odyssey by Frances Richardson Keller 12. "Drop by Drop the Bottle Fills" by Margaret Strobel 13. In Circles Comes Change by Eileen Boris 14. Domestic Constraints: Motherhood as Life and Subject by Lynn Y. Weiner 15. Activism and the Academy by Barbara Winslow 16. The Emma Thread: Communitarian Values, Global Visions by Nancy A. Hewitt 17. Clio on the Margins by Mary Elizabeth Perry 18. Que seyo: A Historian in Training by Nancy Mirabal 19. A New Generation of Women Historians by Crystal Feimster 20. Bibliography: Women Historians and How They Are Made by Barbara Penny Kanner
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