{"product_id":"disorderly-conduct-9780195040395","title":"Disorderly Conduct","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays explores the sweeping changes in male-female relations, in family structure, sex, and social custom that took place in 19th-century America as its colonial world was supplanted by the rapidly-evolving industrial society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This eagerly awaited book is sure to become a classic...It's the most comprehensive, elegant, and persuasive account to date of the relationships between gender, class, and culture in nineteenth-century America.\"--Elaine Showalter, Princeton University \"These essays are among the most carefully informed, well-balanced, and informative sources available to readers interested in women's history.\"--Bram Dijkstra, Los Angeles Times \"A vital historical backdrop for students.\"--Gertrude Fraser, Cornell University \"Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is unquestionably the most quoted and cited feminist historian in America today. It is a boon to all serious scholars that her works now appear in one major, accessible volume.\"--Susan Brownmiller \"A splendid book...A provocative collection of essays...Few historians have used the streams of myth and history so productively.\"--Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times Book Review \"Carroll Smith-Rosenberg has left an enduring mark on women's history...She ranks among the most exciting, original voices of the consciously feminist historians.\"--The Women's Review of Books \"One of those rare books that sets off explosion after explosion in a reader's mind; connection after connection leaps into consciousness from Smith-Rosenberg's richly suggestive tapestry.\"--Signs \"An excellent, challenging book for upper division students.\"--April Bullock, Santa Clara University","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766800875863,"sku":"9780195040395","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195040395.jpg?v=1758711296","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disorderly-conduct-9780195040395","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}