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Poor and Pregnant in Paris
Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century
Rachel Fuchs shows how poor urban women in Paris negotiated their environment, and in some respects helped shape it, in their attempt to cope with their problems of poverty and pregnancy. She reveals who the women were and provides insight into the nature of their work and living arrangements. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual court testimonies, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences, their use of charity and welfare, and their recourse to abortion and infanticide as desperate alternatives to motherhood.
Fuchs also provides a comprehensive description of philanthropic and welfare institutions and outlines the relationship between the developing welfare state and official conceptions of womanhood. She traces the evolution of a new morality among policymakers in which secular views, medical hygiene, and a new focus on the protection of children replaced religious morality as a driving force in policy formation.
Combining social, intellectual, and medical history, this study of poor mothers in nineteenth-century society illuminates both class and gender relations in Paris, and illustrates the connection between social policy and the way ordinary women lived their lives.
Sadomasochism in Everyday Life
The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness
The Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller
Geography's Inner Worlds
Pervasive Themes in Contemporary American Geography
Twenty-six leading American geographers meditate on the themes that unify contemporary geography. They emphasize the concepts and methods that run through all geography's sub-disciplines and give it a distinctive place among both the natural and social sciences.
The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus
by his son Ferdinand
African Encounters with Domesticity
Disability and the Displaced Worker
Feminism and American Literary History
Essays
Jerseyana
The Underside of New Jersey History
Beyond Geography
The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness
Reworking Modernity
Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent
Ethel Rosenberg
Beyond the Myths
Ilene Philipson's biography of Ethel Rosenberg, only the second woman in U.S. history to be executed for treason, is now available in paperback for the first time.
Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike
Lucy Stone
Speaking Out for Equality
Sex Exposed
Sexuality and the Pornography Debate
This provocative collection, by well-known feminists, surveys these arguments, and in particular asks why recent feminist debates about sexuality keep reducing to questions of pornography.
The (Other) American Traditions
Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
A Convergence of Lives
Sofia Kovalevskaia - Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary
Gender Play
Girls and Boys in School
Mothers On The Job
Maternity Policy in the U.S. Workplace
Women's increasing demands for protection and benefits in the workplace, especially with regard to maternity leave, have sparked more than a century of controversy among feminists on how best to serve the needs of working women. This debate continues to divide the feminist community. One side believes women are better served by emphasizing equality with men--pregnancy should be treated like any other "disability." The other side wants to recognize difference--special provisions should apply only to pregnant women. Lise Vogel examines the evolution of this debate on pregnant women in the workplace, looking at theoretical as well as practical implications.
The Retreat from Race
Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics
Moving beyond the university setting, Takagi explores the political significance of the retreat from race by linking Asian-American admissions to other controversies in higher education and in American politics, including the debates over political correctness and multiculturalism. In her assessment, the retreat from race is likely to fail at its promise of easing racial tension and promoting racial equality.