Gender and American Social Science

Gender and American Social Science
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9780691048208
ISBN-13 : 0691048207
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Book Synopsis Gender and American Social Science by : Helene Silverberg

Download or read book Gender and American Social Science written by Helene Silverberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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