Browsing by Author "Cott, Nancy"
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Behaving Like Animals: Human Cruelty, Animal Suffering, and American Culture, 1900-present
McGrath, Timothy Stephen (2013-08-21)What does it mean to be cruel to an animal? What does it mean for an animal to suffer? These are the questions embedded in the term "cruelty to animals," which has seemed, at first glance, a well defined term in modern ... -
Best Interests: Feminists, Social Science, and the Revaluing of Working Mothers in Modern America
More, Elizabeth Singer (2013-03-06)This dissertation traces the formation, development, and deployment of arguments in favor of maternal employment from the years before World War II through the mid-1990s. Drawing on academic journals, popular periodicals, ... -
The Conversion of the World in the Early Republic: Race, Gender, and Imperialism in the Early American Foreign Mission Movement
Conroy-Krutz, Emily (2012-12-19)This is a transnational history of the early republic that focuses on religious actors. The early American foreign mission movement was an outward-looking expression of the benevolent network of the early republic. Building ... -
Domestic Pleasures: Dreams of Hope and Fulfillment in American Home Life
Thompson, Phyllis Elizabeth Pratt (2014-06-06)This dissertation explores American domestic pleasures and duties during the two Gilded Ages that bracket the twentieth century. It draws upon the theoretical work of scholars from several disciplines and analyzes prescriptive ... -
Marriage and Women's Citizenship in the United States, 1830-1934
Cott, Nancy (University of Chicago Press, 1998) -
Museum, Laboratory, and Field Site: Graduate Training in Zoology at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, 1873-1934
Tonn, Jenna Alexandra (2015-09-08)This dissertation examines the development of graduate training in zoology at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges under E. L. Mark between 1873 and 1934. It focuses on the changing spatial, institutional, and intellectual ... -
No Place Like Home: A Cultural History of Gay Domesticity, 1948-1982
Vider, Stephen Joshua (2013-10-17)No Place Like Home: A Cultural History of Gay Domesticity, 1948-1982, explores the development of gay male domestic spaces and their representation in American culture, from the publication of the first Kinsey Report to ... -
Outsourcing Government: Boston and the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships, 1950-2000
Dunning, Claire (2016-05-17)Through a study of Boston and federal social policy, this dissertation analyzes the rise of public-private partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations in the United States over the second half of the twentieth ... -
Planning the American Family: The Politics of Government Family Planning Programs from the Great Society to the New Right
Rodberg, Josie (2013-09-04)This dissertation examines the creation and development of the United States government's Title X family planning program from 1965 to 1988. It argues that Title X became controversial when its supporters shifted their ... -
Protestants, Politics, and Power: Race, Gender, and Religion in the Post-Emancipation Mississippi River Valley, 1863-1900
Jemison, Elizabeth (2015-05-17)This dissertation argues that Protestant Christianity provided the language through which individuals and communities created the political, social, and cultural future of the post-emancipation South. Christian arguments ... -
Queer Expertise: Urban Policing and the Construction of Public Knowledge About Homosexuality, 1920–1970
Lvovsky, Anna (2015-05-17)This dissertation tracks how urban police tactics against homosexuality participated in the construction, ratification, and dissemination of authoritative public knowledge about gay men in the United States in the twentieth ... -
What You've Got is a Revolution: Black Women's Movements for Black Power
Farmer, Ashley Dawn (2013-10-08)This dissertation examines African American women's gender-specific theorizing and intellectual production during the black power era. Previous histories of this period have focused primarily on the theoretical and activist ...