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History and theory : feminist research, debates, contestations / edited by Barbara Laslett [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997Description: vi, 474 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226469328
  • 9780226469324
  • 0226469301
  • 9780226469300
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42
LOC classification:
  • HQ1206. H535 1997
Contents:
Introduction -- Commodity Exchange and Subordination: Montagnais-Naskapi and Huron Women, 1600-1650 -- Women and the Rise of the Novel: A Feminist-Marxist Theory -- The Unproductive Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought -- Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Kenya: "Burying Otieno" Revisited -- Prostitution, Identity, and Class Consciousness in Nairobi during World War II -- From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor -- Women's Voices in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse: A Step toward Deconstructing Science -- Foot-binding in Neo-Confucian China and the Appropriation of Female Labor -- Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects: Pleasure, Romance, and the Family Drama of Colonial Reform in Mary Carpenter's Six Months in India -- Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's "Radha" of 1906 -- A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State -- African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race -- Getting into Trouble: Dishonest Women, Modern Girls, and Women-Men in the Conceptual Language of Vida Policial, 1925-1927 -- The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America -- Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's Messalina -- Feminist History after the Linguistic Turn: Historicizing Discourse and Experience -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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"The essays in this volume originally appeared in various issues of Signs: journal of women in culture and society"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Commodity Exchange and Subordination: Montagnais-Naskapi and Huron Women, 1600-1650 -- Women and the Rise of the Novel: A Feminist-Marxist Theory -- The Unproductive Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought -- Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in Kenya: "Burying Otieno" Revisited -- Prostitution, Identity, and Class Consciousness in Nairobi during World War II -- From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor -- Women's Voices in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse: A Step toward Deconstructing Science -- Foot-binding in Neo-Confucian China and the Appropriation of Female Labor -- Fearful Bodies into Disciplined Subjects: Pleasure, Romance, and the Family Drama of Colonial Reform in Mary Carpenter's Six Months in India -- Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's "Radha" of 1906 -- A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State -- African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race -- Getting into Trouble: Dishonest Women, Modern Girls, and Women-Men in the Conceptual Language of Vida Policial, 1925-1927 -- The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America -- Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's Messalina -- Feminist History after the Linguistic Turn: Historicizing Discourse and Experience -- About the Contributors -- Index.

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