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Book SynopsisProvides a multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume draws attention to the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the social knowledge.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsContributorsCh. 1Introduction: Toward a Gendered Social Science History3Ch. 2The "Sphere of Women" in Early-Twentieth-Century Economics35Ch. 3"Politics Would Undoubtedly Unwoman Her": Gender, Suffrage, and American Political Science61Ch. 4"Wild West" Anthropology and the Disciplining of Gender86Ch. 5Hull-House Maps and Papers: Social Science as Women's Work in the 1890s127Ch. 6"A Government of Men": Gender, the City, and the New Science of Politics156Ch. 7The Establishment of an Applied Social Science: Home Economists, Science, and Reform at Cornell University, 1870-1930185Ch. 8Gendered Social Knowledge: Domestic Discourse, Jane Addams, and the Possibilities of Social Science235Ch. 9Bringing Social Science Back Home: Theory and Practice in the Life and Work of Elsie Clews Parsons265Ch. 10The "Self-Applauding Sincerity" of Overreaching Theory, Biography as Ethical Practice, and the Case of Mary van Kleeck293Index327
