History and Theory
Feminist Research, Debates, Contestations

400 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1996
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Table of Contents

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