Gender and American social science : the formative years /
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: toward a gendered social science history / Helene Silverberg
- pt. 1. Discourses of gender in the social sciences: The "sphere of women" in early-twentieth-century economics / Nancy Folbre. "Politics would undoubtedly unwoman her": gender, suffrage, and American political science / Mary G. Dietz and James Farr. "Wild West" anthropology and the disciplining of gender / Kamala Visweswaran
- pt. 2. Gender as constitutive of social science: Hull-House maps and papers: social science as women's work in the 1890s / Kathryn Kish Sklar. "A government of men": gender, the city, and the new science of politics / Helene Silverberg. The establishment of an applied social science: home economists, science, and reform at Cornell University, 1870-1930 / Nancy K. Berlage
- pt. 3. Social science as cultural critique: Gendered social knowledge: domestic discourse, Jane Addams, and the possibilities of social science / Dorothy Ross. Bringing social science back home: theory and practice in the life and work of Elsie Clews Parsons / Desley Deacon. The "self-applauding sincerity" of overreaching theory, biography as ethical practice, and the case of Mary van Kleeck / Guy Alchon.