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9%OFFDorothy O. Helly (Ed.) - Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History - 9780801497025 - V9780801497025
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Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History

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Description for Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History Paperback. Editor(s): Helly, Dorothy O.; Reverby, Susan M. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.

For over two centuries the notion that societies have been sharply divided into women's (private) and men's (public) spheres has been used both to describe and to prescribe social life. More recently, it has been applied and critiqued by feminist scholars as an explanation for women's oppression. Spanning a rich array of historical contexts—from medieval nunneries to Ottoman harems to Paris communes to electronics firms in today's Silicon Valley—the twenty essays collected here offer a pathbreaking reassessment of the significance of the concept of separate spheres.

After a theoretical introduction by the editors, certain essays reexamine historians' definitions of public ... Read more

Making available the best papers on the public/private theme delivered at the 1987 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Gendered Domains will be welcomed by anyone interested in women's studies, including historians, political scientists, feminist theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801497025
SKU
V9780801497025
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About Dorothy O. Helly (Ed.)
Dorothy O. Helly is Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Susan M. Reverby is Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought and Director, Women's Studies Program, Wellesley College.

Reviews for Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History
Genuinely feminist and provocative scholarship; in telling the stories of all kinds of women, more and less empowered or oppressed, the essays inspire additional critiques and questions.
Journal of American History

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