Linda K. Kerber
Autor de Women's America: Refocusing the Past
Sobre El Autor
Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History at the University of Iowa Jane Sherron De Hart is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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American Quarterly, Special Issue: Republicanism in the History and Historiography of the United States (1985) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Kerber, Linda Kaufman
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-01-23
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Educación
- Columbia University (PhD - History)
New York University (MA)
Barnard College (BA)
Forest Hills High School - Ocupaciones
- Liberal Arts professor, University of Iowa
historian
professor (Liberal Arts)
lecturer (Law) - Organizaciones
- American Historical Association (President, 2006)
Organization of American Historians
American Studies Association
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No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies por Linda Kerber
Final Chapter discusses the obligations of military service, the connections to citizenship and what that means in contemporary American life. Points out entitlements that veterans receive (G.I. Bill, veterans preference in hiring, etc.) Discusses legal cases brought by women challenging veterans preferences and the Supreme Court decisions involving registration and the draft. Emphasizes the negative connotations brought on the ERA by the requirement to darft women.
An early look at the women of the Revolutionary era; their political and social beliefs, aspirations and expectations and their place in society. Discusses the concept of "coverture," and women's education.
This is one of the books that got me wondering if perhaps I should be in women's studies and not science.
A really fascinating look at women's history in the United States from the late eighteenth century through to the nineties, framed not in terms of the struggle to gain equal rights, but in terms of the struggle to gain equal obligations under the law--whether to vote, to serve on juries, to fight on the front lines in combat situations, etc.
Meticulously researched and cogently argued, Kerber looks at how the refusal to legislate for women's obligations within these spheres had a negative impact on their ability to exercise what rights they did have, and on the movement to gain equal rights. It gave me a number of tools with which to re-evaluate the fields of women's history I've already studied, and gave me a basic education in American women's history, which I was only vaguely acquainted with before; not to mention that it made my jaw drop a number of times in sheer disbelief. I found the comparisons between the civil rights movement and the feminist movement to be especially interesting; how advocates from the two separate movements (or both) learned to identify with one another, their points of commonality and their differences with one another.
Highly, highly recommended if you have any interest at all in this area of history. Don't let the fact that it focuses on constitutional law put you off; normally, legal history ranks only slightly above economic history with me for topics to switch me off, and I still sped through this and wished for more… (más)
Meticulously researched and cogently argued, Kerber looks at how the refusal to legislate for women's obligations within these spheres had a negative impact on their ability to exercise what rights they did have, and on the movement to gain equal rights. It gave me a number of tools with which to re-evaluate the fields of women's history I've already studied, and gave me a basic education in American women's history, which I was only vaguely acquainted with before; not to mention that it made my jaw drop a number of times in sheer disbelief. I found the comparisons between the civil rights movement and the feminist movement to be especially interesting; how advocates from the two separate movements (or both) learned to identify with one another, their points of commonality and their differences with one another.
Highly, highly recommended if you have any interest at all in this area of history. Don't let the fact that it focuses on constitutional law put you off; normally, legal history ranks only slightly above economic history with me for topics to switch me off, and I still sped through this and wished for more… (más)
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