Living with History / Making Social Change

Contents

Contents Note on Style vii Introduction 1 I. REDEFINING THE PROFESSION OF HISTORY 1. A Life of Learning 23 2. Women among the Professors of History: The Story of a Process of Transformation 38 3. The M.A. Program in Women’s History at Sarah Lawrence College 52 II. DOING HISTORY 4. The Meaning of Seneca Falls 73 5. Midwestern Leaders of the Modern Women’s Movement 85 6. Women in World History 103 7. Taming the Monster: Workshop on the Construction of Deviant Out-Groups 114 8. Autobiography, Biography, Memory, and the Truth 130 III. LIVING IN HISTORY 9. The Historian and the Writer 157 10. Holistic History: Challenges and Possibilities 163 11. Transformational Feminism (An Interview) 180 12. Reflections on Aging 188 APPENDIX A. Biographies of Midwestern Feminist Leaders 199 APPENDIX B. Class Syllabus for Workshop on the Construction of Deviant Out-Groups (Chapter 7) 208 APPENDIX C. Group Exercises for Workshop on the Construction of Deviant Out-Groups (Chapter 7) 215 Acknowledgments 218 Index 221 ...