TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laslett,Barbara
TI  - History and theory: feminist research, debates, contestations 
SN  - 0226469328
AV  - HQ1206. H535 1997
U1  - 305.42 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Feminist theory
N1  - "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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