Author: Carole Srole
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472050559
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status
Transcribing Class and Gender
Author: Carole Srole
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472050559
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472050559
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status
American Socialist Triptych
Author: Mark Van Wienen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.
Dreams for Dead Bodies
Author: Michelle Robinson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119818
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119818
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
The Poverty Law Canon
Author: Marie Failinger
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Engaging narratives that move beyond the final opinions of the Supreme Court to reveal the people and stories behind key poverty-law cases of the last 50 years
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Engaging narratives that move beyond the final opinions of the Supreme Court to reveal the people and stories behind key poverty-law cases of the last 50 years
Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers
Author: Cedric Tolliver
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472054058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers recovers the history of the writers, artists, and intellectuals of the African diaspora who, witnessing a transition to an American-dominated capitalist world-system during the Cold War, offered searing critiques of burgeoning U.S. hegemony. Cedric R. Tolliver traces this history through an analysis of signal events and texts where African diaspora literary culture intersects with the wider cultural Cold War, from the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists organized by Francophone intellectuals in September 1956 to the reverberations among African American writers and activists to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Among Tolliver’s subjects are Caribbean writers Jacques Stephen Alexis, George Lamming, and Aimé Césaire, the black press writing of Alice Childress and Langston Hughes, and the ordeal of Paul Robeson, among other topics. The book’s final chapter highlights the international and domestic consequences of the cultural Cold War and discusses their lingering effects on our contemporary critical predicament.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472054058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers recovers the history of the writers, artists, and intellectuals of the African diaspora who, witnessing a transition to an American-dominated capitalist world-system during the Cold War, offered searing critiques of burgeoning U.S. hegemony. Cedric R. Tolliver traces this history through an analysis of signal events and texts where African diaspora literary culture intersects with the wider cultural Cold War, from the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists organized by Francophone intellectuals in September 1956 to the reverberations among African American writers and activists to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Among Tolliver’s subjects are Caribbean writers Jacques Stephen Alexis, George Lamming, and Aimé Césaire, the black press writing of Alice Childress and Langston Hughes, and the ordeal of Paul Robeson, among other topics. The book’s final chapter highlights the international and domestic consequences of the cultural Cold War and discusses their lingering effects on our contemporary critical predicament.
Michael Moore
Author: Matthew Bernstein
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472071033
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Indispensable perspectives on America's top documentary filmmaker and political commentator
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472071033
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Indispensable perspectives on America's top documentary filmmaker and political commentator
History after Hobsbawm
Author: John H. Arnold
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191081434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
What does it mean - and what might it yet come to mean - to write 'history' in the twenty-first century? History After Hobsbawm brings together leading historians from across the globe to ask what being an historian should mean in their particular fields of study. Taking their cue from one of the previous century's greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, and his interests across many periods and places, the essays approach their subjects with an underlying sense of what role an historian might seek to play, and attempt to help twenty-first-century society understand 'how we got here'. They present new work in their sub-fields but also point to how their specialisms are developing, how they might further grow in the future, and how different areas of focus might speak to the larger challenges of history - both for the discipline itself and for its relationship to other fields of academic inquiry. Like Hobsbawn, the authors in this collection know that history matters. They speak to both the past and the present and, in so doing, introduce some of the most exciting new lines of research in a broad array of subjects from the medieval period to the present.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191081434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
What does it mean - and what might it yet come to mean - to write 'history' in the twenty-first century? History After Hobsbawm brings together leading historians from across the globe to ask what being an historian should mean in their particular fields of study. Taking their cue from one of the previous century's greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, and his interests across many periods and places, the essays approach their subjects with an underlying sense of what role an historian might seek to play, and attempt to help twenty-first-century society understand 'how we got here'. They present new work in their sub-fields but also point to how their specialisms are developing, how they might further grow in the future, and how different areas of focus might speak to the larger challenges of history - both for the discipline itself and for its relationship to other fields of academic inquiry. Like Hobsbawn, the authors in this collection know that history matters. They speak to both the past and the present and, in so doing, introduce some of the most exciting new lines of research in a broad array of subjects from the medieval period to the present.
Sex and the Office
Author: Julie Berebitsky
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300118996
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans' attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed since the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office. Berebitsky recounts the actual experiences of female and male office workers; draws on archival sources ranging from the records of investigators looking for waste in government offices during World War II to the personal papers of Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem; and explores how popular sources—including cartoons, advertisements, advice guides, and a wide array of fictional accounts—have represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances. This range of evidence and the study's long scope expose both notable transformations and startling continuities in the interplay of gender, power and desire at work.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300118996
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans' attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed since the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office. Berebitsky recounts the actual experiences of female and male office workers; draws on archival sources ranging from the records of investigators looking for waste in government offices during World War II to the personal papers of Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem; and explores how popular sources—including cartoons, advertisements, advice guides, and a wide array of fictional accounts—have represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances. This range of evidence and the study's long scope expose both notable transformations and startling continuities in the interplay of gender, power and desire at work.
Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1830–1890
Author: Hélène Quanquin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000226751
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19th century, using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of women’s rights, as important but also cumbersome allies. Focussing mainly on nine men—William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, James Mott, Frederick Douglass, Henry B. Blackwell, Stephen S. Foster, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Purvis, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the book demonstrates how their interactions influenced debates within and outside the movement, marriages and friendships as well as the evolution of (self-)definitions of masculinity throughout the 19th century. Re-evaluating the historical evolution of feminisms as movements for and by women, as well as the meanings of identity politics before and after the Civil War, this is a crucial text for the history of both American feminisms and American politics and society. This is an important scholarly intervention that would be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender history, women’s history, gender studies and modern American history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000226751
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19th century, using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of women’s rights, as important but also cumbersome allies. Focussing mainly on nine men—William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, James Mott, Frederick Douglass, Henry B. Blackwell, Stephen S. Foster, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Purvis, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the book demonstrates how their interactions influenced debates within and outside the movement, marriages and friendships as well as the evolution of (self-)definitions of masculinity throughout the 19th century. Re-evaluating the historical evolution of feminisms as movements for and by women, as well as the meanings of identity politics before and after the Civil War, this is a crucial text for the history of both American feminisms and American politics and society. This is an important scholarly intervention that would be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender history, women’s history, gender studies and modern American history.
Needlework and Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia
Author: Lorinda Cramer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350069639
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350069639
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.