| Description |
x, 334 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- "Self-applauding sincerity" of overreaching theory, biography as ethical practice, and the case of Mary van Kleeck / Guy Alchon. |
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Social sciences -- United States -- History.
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Women social scientists -- United States -- History.
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Women -- United States -- History.
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Sex role -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Silverberg, Helene, 1958-
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| ISBN |
0691048207 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0691017492 (alk. paper) |
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