Women and the Historical Enterprise in America : Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (396 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Discovering Women's Hidden History -- Notes -- Part I. The Regendering of History, 1880-1935 -- 1. From Feminine Refinement to Masculine Pursuit, 1880-1920 -- Amateurism vs. Professionalism: A Crisis of Identity -- Women in the Masculine World of Academic History -- Notes -- 2. Social Activism and Interdisciplinarity in Writing and Teaching, 1910-1935 -- The Regendering of Scientific History -- The Transformation of Lucy Salmon -- The Nonestablishmentarianism of Mary Beard -- Notes -- Part II. Perspectives from the Professional, Social, and Geographic Margins -- 3. Women Regionalists and Intercultural Brokers -- Women Regionalists: Finding Culture outside the Academic Establishment -- Finding Women's Place in Western History and Historiography -- Notes -- 4. African American Woman's Historical Consciousness -- Reconstructing Race Memory and Regendering the Race Historian, 1880-1920s -- Finding Women's Distinctive Place in the History of the Renaissance -- Notes -- Part III. Constructing Usable Pasts -- 5. Womanist Consciousness and New Negro History -- Finding Women's Niche in the New Negro History Movement -- The Woman Librarian and New Negro History -- Notes -- 6. Remembering Organized Feminism -- Constructing a Usable Past for Woman Suffrage -- Suffrage Is Won but Our Work Is Not Done: Adapting and Contesting the Memory of Suffrage Pioneers -- How to Remember the Fight for Woman's Rights -- Postscript -- Notes -- Part IV. Establishing Women's History as a Field -- 7. Creating a Usable Past for Women -- The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians -- Mary Beard and the WCWA, 1935-1940 -- Notes -- 8. Legacies for Women's History in the Twenty-First Century -- Building Institutions of Women's History: Debates over a Usable Past -- Mary Beard the Anachronism. Final Thoughts: Linking Historical Pioneers to the Present -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D-E -- F-G -- H -- I-K -- L-M -- N -- O-P -- Q-S -- T-W -- Y-Z.
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Historiography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. Historiography -- Political aspects -- United States -- History. Women historians -- United States -- History. Sex role -- United States -- History. Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. Memory -- Political aspects -- United States -- History. United States -- Race relations.