Living with History / Making Social Change

Index

Abolition. See Antislavery movement Abortion rights, 81, 82, 99 Abram, Ruth, 65 Abzug, Bella, 60, 62 Academic institutions: equity for women at, 5–7; hiring process at, 6, 39, 43, 50; women’s influence on, 7. See also specific institutions Adams, Henry, 140, 148 Addams, Jane, 14, 142, 143, 146 Affirmative action, 50 AFL-CIO, 92 African Americans: as deviant outgroup , 122, 124; slave narratives by, 134–37. See also Women—African American Aging, 18–19, 188–98; and feminism, 183–84; as natural process, 188–90; as social construction, 191–95; solutions for problems of, 195–98 AHA. See American Historical Association Alcott, Bronson, 148 Alcott, Louisa May, 141, 148 Alverno College, 95, 97, 98, 206 American Anti-Slavery Society, 28, 75 American Association of University Women, 96 American Council of Learned Societies , 23 American Historical Association (AHA): Committee on the Status of Women, 42, 56, 59, 60; 1969 convention of, 32, 40; elections of, 45; organizational struggles in, 6; pamphlet on Women’s History for, 11– 12, 49–50, 104; panels on Women’s History at, 46–47; Summer Institutes of, 60; survival manual of, 43; women in leadership of, 45–46 Anecdotes, in autobiographies, 151 Anthony, Susan B.: biographies of, 143, 146; black women and, 10; History of Woman Suffrage, 10, 87 Antifascist movement, 2, 25, 28 Antilynching movement, 187 Anti-Semitism: and deviant outgroups , 118–24; medieval, 118, 123; racism linked with, 186–87; in Vienna, 24 Antislavery movement: black women in, 33; in origins of Seneca Falls convention, 74–75, 87; and slave narratives, 134, 135 Artigiani, Carole, 67 Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL), 187 Augustine, Saint, 131–32 Austen, Jane, 141 Autobiographies, 13–15, 130–52; fictional , 141, 147–48, 151; lesbian relationships in, 14–15, 130, 143–47; as literature and history combined, 131; medieval, 131–34; memory as source for, 149–51; by mystics, 132– 34; omissions in, 140, 148, 150; as quest story, 132, 137–41; reliability as sources, 14, 130, 131, 140, 148, 151; religion in, 131–34; by slaves, 134–37; truth in, 14, 131; by women, 141–48; in World History courses, 110 Index 222 INDEX Baker, Ella, 185 Baxter, Annette, 50 Beard, Mary: and archives, 32; and development of Women’s History, 46; influence of, 29, 31; OAH convention panel on, 47; Woman as Force in History, 31 Becker, Carl, 158 Beecher, Catherine, 173 Bellamy, Carol, 62 Bellamy, Edward, 15 Berkshire Conference, 41, 43 Bibliographies, 49, 60 Bibliography in the History of American Women (Lerner), 49, 51 (n. 5) Biographies, 13–15, 130–52; anecdotes in, 151; effects of Women’s History on, 168; lesbian relationships in, 143–47; as literature, 159; medieval, 141–42; of men, women in, 141; of powerful people, 130–31; public vs. private lives in, 168; reliability of, 151–52; truth in, 14, 152; of women reformers, 142–47 Biology, in women’s oppression, 34, 80 Birth statistics, 107 Blacklisting, 3, 4, 28 Black Women in White America (Lerner), 4, 33 Bloch, Marc, 169–70 Book of the City of Ladies,The (Christine de Pizan), 141–42 Bordin, Ruth, 144, 145 Boyer, Gene, 94, 98, 206–7 Boyer, Paul, 48 Bread Givers (Yezierska), 147, 148 Brent, Linda. See Jacobs, Harriet “Bridges That Carry Us Over” (1992 conference), 86 Brontë sisters, 141 Brown, Victoria Bissel, 146 Brown, William Wells, 134 Bruce Catton Prize (Society of American Historians), 15, 16, 157 Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder, 161 Burstein, Karen, 62 Carroll, Berenice, 32, 40 Carter, Jimmy, 66, 74, 95, 97 “Case of the Missing Ladies, The” (1972 OAH panel), 47 Catherine of Siena, 133 Catholicism: mysticism in, 133; theology of, 131–32 Catt, Carrie Chapman, 145–46 CCWHP. See Coordinating Committee of Women in the Historical Profession Center of Continuing Education (Sarah Lawrence College), 52, 54, 69 (n. 1) Chambers, Clarke, 46, 48 Charles Homer Haskins Lecture (American Council of Learned Societies), 23 Child, Lydia Maria, 134, 135 Child care: aging and, 193, 197; conference on, 60–62; progress on, 82; in unions, 92 Children: in origins of patriarchy, 35; World History courses on, 107 Christianity. See Religion Christine de Pizan, 141–42 Civil rights, women’s rights as, 79–80 Civil rights movement, 185 Clarenbach, Kathryn (Kay), 85, 89–90, 94, 96, 185–86, 199 Class: gender in formation of, 171; Marxist thought on, 34; and INDEX 223 progress on women’s rights, 81–82; in Women...