Berkin, Carol; Appel, Carol; Pinch, Judith L.

Exploring Women's Studies : Looking Forward, Looking Back

Preface v Introduction 1(8) Part 1 The Evolution of Economic and Political Citizenship for Women 9(46) Beyond the Waves: Rethinking the History of Feminisms 11(14) Estelle B. Freedman African Feminisms: The Struggle Continues 25(13) Beverly Guy-Sheftall Feminism, Empire, and the Fate of National Histories: The Case of Victorian Britain 38(17) Antoinette Burton Part 2 Gender Construction in Action 55(76) When Women's Studies Isn't about Women: Writing about Drag Queens 57(11) Leila J. Rupp Anthropology, Gender, and Narrative 68(19) Caroline B. Brettell The Queerness of Victorian Marriage Reform 87(21) Sharon Marcus ``Return from exile'': Community, Nation, and Gender in George Eliot's Fiction 108(23) Deborah Epstein Nord Part 3 Labor, Class, and Space 131(88) Writing Women's History: What's Feminism Got to Do with It? 133(13) Jacqueline Jones ``Independence Herself'': A New Spin on Old Stories about Household Production in Early New England 146(16) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Stealing Happiness: Women Shoplifters in Georgian England 162(22) Adela Pinch Gender Sharing of Labor: An Anthropological Perspective 184(17) Shanshan Du Understanding Agoraphobia: Women, Men, and the Historical Geography of Urban Anxiety 201(18) Felicity Callard Part 4 Rights, Reforms, and Welfare 219(80) The Politics of Gender and Schooling in the Progressive Era 221(15) Miriam Cohen Women's History with the Politics Left IN: Feminist Studies of the U.S. Welfare State 236(20) Felicia A. Kornbluh Patriarchy, Racism, and Business Interests: Cross-Class Support for Welfare Rentrenchment in the United States 256(20) Ellen Reese Metaphors of Class and Race: Comparing German and American Feminisms 276(23) Myra Marx Ferree Part 5 Knowledge Production 299(63) Taking the ``man'' Out of the Humanities: How Feminism and Technology Are Transforming the Discipline 301(17) Martha Nell Smith The Art of Darkness: Willa Cather's Aesthetics 318(13) Michele Aina Barale Feminist Film Theory and the Problem of Liking Characters 331(17) Sabrina Barton Feminism and Art History: Past Achievements and New Directions 348(14) Susan P. Casteras Index 362