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Author Des Jardins, Julie

Title Women and the historical enterprise in America : gender, race, and the politics of memory, 1880-1945 / Julie Des Jardins
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 380 pages)
Series Gender & American culture
Gender & American culture.
Contents The regendering of history, 1880-1935 -- From feminine refinement to masculine pursuit, 1880-1920 -- Social activism and interdisciplinarity in writing and teaching, 1910-1935 -- Perspectives from the professional, social, and geographic margins -- Women regionalists and intercultural brokers -- African American women's historical consciousness -- Constructing usable pasts -- Womanist consciousness and new Negro history -- Remembering organized feminism -- Establishing women's history as a field -- Creating a usable past for women -- Legacies for women' s history in the twenty-first century
Summary "In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America, Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II. During this transitional period, the study of history became professionalized as an increasingly masculine field of scientific inquiry, no longer considered a feminine realm of knowledge devoted to nostalgia for a patriotic past. Des Jardins reveals how women nevertheless transformed the historical profession and the construction of historical memory during these years in their roles as writers, preservationists, educators, government workers, archivists, and social activists." "Des Jardins explores the work of a wide variety of women historians, both professional and amateur, popular and scholarly, conservative and radical, white and nonwhite. Although their ability to earn professional credentials and to gain research access to official documents was limited by their gender (and often by their race), these historians addressed important new questions and represented social groups traditionally omitted from the historical record, such as workers, African Americans, Native Americans, and religious minorities. Assessing the historical contributions of Mary Beard, Zora Neale Hurston, Angie Debo, Mari Sandoz, Lucy Salmon, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dorothy Porter, Nellie Neilson, and many others, Des Jardins argues that women working within the broadest confines of the historical enterprise collectively brought the new perpectives of social and cultural history to the study of a multifaceted American past. In the process, they not only developed the field of women's history but also influenced the creation of our national memory in the twentieth century." "According to Des Jardins, women produced, preserved, and reinterpreted history for many different reasons, but they were united in their desire to broaden the field of inquiry. Taken together, their work reveals a growing activist impulse and historical consciousness and constitutes a historiographical legacy that remains relevant today."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-363) and index
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Subject Historiography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Historiography -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
Women historians -- United States -- History
Sex role -- United States -- History
Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Memory -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Historiography
Historiography -- Political aspects
Historiography -- Social aspects
Memory -- Political aspects
Memory -- Social aspects
Race relations
Sex role
Women historians
Geschichtsschreibung
Rassenpolitik
Frau
Historici.
Vrouwen.
Geschiedwetenschap.
Historiennes -- États-Unis.
Rôle selon le sexe -- États-Unis.
1880-1889.
1890-1899.
1900-1949.
Aspect politique.
Aspect social.
Histoire des femmes.
Historienne.
Historiographie.
Mémoire collective.
Relations interraciales.
Rôle selon le sexe.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
United States -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
Subject United States
USA
États-Unis -- Historiographie.
États-Unis.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807861529
9780807861523
0807827967
9780807827963