Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years

In contrast, this volume draws long overdue attention to the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the new social knowledge. And it challenges the privileged position that academic - and mostly male - social science has been granted in traditional histories by showing how women produced and popularized new forms of social knowledge in such places as settlement houses and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Author(s): Helene Silverberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998-05-10
Pages: 345
Categories: History