Voices of Women Historians

This collection of personal narratives by former officers of the Coordinating Council for Women in History weaves together past and present in women's history, and women in the historical profession. Recording the diverse paths taken to become historians, essays describe how a group of women negotiated the often competing demands of being a woman, a professional, and a political activist during the turbulent 1960s through the challenges of the 1990s.

Eileen Boris, Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Virginia and coordinating editor of IRIS: A Journal of Women, is the author of Art and Labor: Ruskin, Morris, and the Craftsman Ideal in America, and Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States. She also has published numerous articles, essays and reviews in American Quarterly, Signs, Journal of American History, Women's Review of Books, and The Nation.

Nupur Chaudhuri, who teaches at Texas Southern University, is the coeditor of Westerm Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, and coeditor of a special issue on "Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality: National and Global Perspectives" for the National Women's Studies Journal. She has written extensively on gender and imperialism and her articles have appeared in the Journal of Women's History, Women's History Review, and Victorian Studies.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: Standpoints on Hard Ground

xi

Eileen Boris

Nupur Chaudhuri

Women among the Professors of History: The Story of a Process of Transformation

1

(11)

Gerda Lerner

Three Faces of Trevia: Identity, Activism, and Intellect

12

(18)

Berenice A. Carroll

Regionalism, Feminism, and Class: The Development of a Feminist Historian

30

(14)

Hilda L. Smith

On the Importance of Taking Notes (and Keeping Them)

44

(18)

Linda K. Kerber

The Shaping of a Feminist Historian

62

(14)

Sandi E. Cooper

Making and Writing History Together

76

(10)

Renate Bridenthal

Going Against the Grain: The Making of an Independent Scholar

86

(16)

Karen Offen

Reassertion of Patriarchy at the End of the Twentieth Century

102

(18)

Joan Hoff

Bahupath Perie: The Long Trek

120

(14)

Nupur Chaudhuri

Two Catalysts in My Life: Voter Registration Drives and CCWHP

134

(10)

Mollie C. Davis

Growing into History

144

(14)

Barbara Penny Kanner

A Graduate Student's Odyssey

158

(16)

Frances Richardson Keller

``Drop by Drop the Bottle Fills''

174

(16)

Margaret Strobel

In Circles Comes Change

190

(16)

Eileen Boris

Domestic Constraints: Motherhood as Life and Subject

206

(12)

Lynn Y. Weiner

Activism and the Academy

218

(16)

Barbara Winslow

The Emma Thread: Communitarian Values, Global Visions

234

(14)

Nancy A. Hewitt

Clio on the Margins

248

(16)

Mary Elizabeth Perry

Que se yo: A Historian in Training

264

(10)

Nancy Raquel Mirabal

A New Generation of Women Historians

274

(8)

Crystal Feimster

Contributors

282

(5)

Index

287

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