Generations of Women Historians Within and Beyond the Academy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smith, Hilda L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zook, Melinda S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Civilization-History.; Education-History.; Women.; Social history.; World history.; Cultural History.; History of Education.; Women's Studies.; Social History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.

This collection focuses on generations of early women historians, seeking to identify the intellectual milieu and professional realities that framed their lives. It moves beyond treating them as simply individuals and looks to the social and intellectual forces that encouraged them to study history...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Women's Scholarship Within and Outside the Academy, 1870-1960; Hilda L. Smith
• Part I. Women and the Medieval and Early Modern Economy
• Chapter 2: Ellen Annette McArthur: Establishing a Presence in the Academy; Amy Erickson
• Chapter 3: Alice Clark's Critique of Capitalism; Tim Stretton
• Chapter 4: Julia Cherry Spruill, Historian of Southern Colonial Women; Anna Suranyi
• Part II. Politics and Citizenship in Early Modern Britain
• Chapter 5: 'No Leisure for Myself:' C.C. Stopes and British Freewomen; Hilda L. Smith
• Chapter 6: C.V. Wedgwood: The Historian and the World; Melinda S. Zook
• Chapter 7: Caroline Robbins: Anglo-American Historian; Lois G. Schwoerer
• Part III. Women and Modern Politics
• Chapter 8: The Historian and the Empress: Isabel de Madariaga's Catherine the Great; Willard Sunderland
• Chapter 9: Arvède Barine: History, Modernity, and Feminism; Whitney Walton
• Chapter 10: Eleanor Flexner: Civil Rights and Feminist Activism; M. Christine Anderson
• Part IV. Alternate Paths to Historical Scholarship
• Chapter 11: Women's Literary History in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France: Louise de Kéralio and Henriette Guizot de Witt; Mihoko Suzuki
• Chapter 12: Ruth Benedict: An Anthropologist's Historical Writings; Tracy Teslow
• Chapter 13: Nancy Mitford: Lessons for Historians from a Best-Selling Author; Judith Zinsser
• Part V. Conclusion
• Chapter 14: Bonnie Smith, Conclusion: Understanding Women Historians' Lives and Scholarly Reputations both within and outside the Academy
• Index.