Gerda Lerner
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832936
- eISBN:
- 9781469605920
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807887868_lerner
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This book is in an autobiographical framework that spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses theoretical writing and organizational work in transforming the history profession and in ...
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This book is in an autobiographical framework that spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses theoretical writing and organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field. Six of the twelve chapters are new, written especially for this volume; the others have previously appeared in small journals or were originally presented as talks, and have been revised for this book. Several chapters discuss feminist teaching and the problems of interpretation of autobiography and memoir for the reader and the historian. The book includes reflections on feminism as a worldview, on the meaning of history writing, and on problems of aging. The chapters illuminate how thought and action connected in the author's life, how the life she led before she became an academic affected the questions she addressed as a historian, and how the social and political struggles in which she engaged informed her thinking.Less
This book is in an autobiographical framework that spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses theoretical writing and organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field. Six of the twelve chapters are new, written especially for this volume; the others have previously appeared in small journals or were originally presented as talks, and have been revised for this book. Several chapters discuss feminist teaching and the problems of interpretation of autobiography and memoir for the reader and the historian. The book includes reflections on feminism as a worldview, on the meaning of history writing, and on problems of aging. The chapters illuminate how thought and action connected in the author's life, how the life she led before she became an academic affected the questions she addressed as a historian, and how the social and political struggles in which she engaged informed her thinking.
Thomas W. Simpson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469628639
- eISBN:
- 9781469628653
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628639.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, ...
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In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life. At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities, and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism’s sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger.Less
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life. At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities, and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism’s sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger.
Elsa Barkley Brown
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832011
- eISBN:
- 9781469604763
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807889121_white.18
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter begins with Elsa Barkley Brown's vivid memory of the first Southern Conference on Women's History, sponsored by the Southern Association of Women Historians (SAWH). Brown had been on the ...
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This chapter begins with Elsa Barkley Brown's vivid memory of the first Southern Conference on Women's History, sponsored by the Southern Association of Women Historians (SAWH). Brown had been on the program committee and worked alongside a group of black and white women historians committed to making sure this conference was an inclusive gathering—fully incorporating graduate students, emphasizing a wide range of women's histories, ensuring that not only SAWH members but also a wide range of historians of women were recognized and participated as presenters and commentators. Yet by the time Brown arrived in Spartanburg on the evening of the first day of the conference, tensions between black and white women were evident—a situation that only increased throughout the next several days.Less
This chapter begins with Elsa Barkley Brown's vivid memory of the first Southern Conference on Women's History, sponsored by the Southern Association of Women Historians (SAWH). Brown had been on the program committee and worked alongside a group of black and white women historians committed to making sure this conference was an inclusive gathering—fully incorporating graduate students, emphasizing a wide range of women's histories, ensuring that not only SAWH members but also a wide range of historians of women were recognized and participated as presenters and commentators. Yet by the time Brown arrived in Spartanburg on the evening of the first day of the conference, tensions between black and white women were evident—a situation that only increased throughout the next several days.
Sonja Tiernan (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719088742
- eISBN:
- 9781781708859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719088742.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
A background of the life and politics of Eva Gore-Booth. Discussion regarding why women in history have been overlooked, with a specific focus on Gore-Booth and her sister the Irish republican ...
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A background of the life and politics of Eva Gore-Booth. Discussion regarding why women in history have been overlooked, with a specific focus on Gore-Booth and her sister the Irish republican activist and first female elected to the House of Commons, Countess Markievicz. This introduction places Lissadell House, the ancestral home of Gore-Booth, in historical context and describes how Gore-Booth’s papers were discovered. A broad overview as to why publication of these political writings provides a greater understanding of Gore-Booth’s work and greater understanding of topics which were viewed as controversial in the early twentieth century such as conscientious objectors in World War One, the death penalty in Ireland and England and the development of women’s trade unions.Less
A background of the life and politics of Eva Gore-Booth. Discussion regarding why women in history have been overlooked, with a specific focus on Gore-Booth and her sister the Irish republican activist and first female elected to the House of Commons, Countess Markievicz. This introduction places Lissadell House, the ancestral home of Gore-Booth, in historical context and describes how Gore-Booth’s papers were discovered. A broad overview as to why publication of these political writings provides a greater understanding of Gore-Booth’s work and greater understanding of topics which were viewed as controversial in the early twentieth century such as conscientious objectors in World War One, the death penalty in Ireland and England and the development of women’s trade unions.
