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.Women in sociology have shaped and changed the development of their field. This volume documents the major outlines of their work and profound impact from 1840 to 1990. The expertise and influence of these women are of such magnitude that it should have been impossible to forget or neglect them in the discipline of sociology--yet far too often their connections to sociology and to sociological labor have been buried. This unique reference book on female sociologists can answer a number of questions about them: Who were, or are, the female founders in sociology? Where were they born and when? What were their most important writings? What were their major accomplishments? How have they been honored? What are their connections to the discipline of sociology?
These founding sisters worked in all specialities: e.g., aging, conflict resolution, criminology, demography, marriage and the family, race relations, research methods, social psychology, theory, and women. These women transcended narrow definitions of sociological thought and practice. Thus, scholars in disciplines other than sociology, including American studies, criminology, economics, history, literature, political science, law, psychology, social psychology, social work, women's studies, and urban studies, will find this volume of significant interest.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
Edith Abbott
Jane Addams
Hannah Arendt
Emily Greene Balch
Simone de Beauvoir
Jessie Bernard
Sophonisba Breckinridge
Ruth Shonle Cavan
Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Roberts Smith Coolidge
Rose Laub Coser
Katharine Bement Davis
Irene Diggs
Frances Donovan
Lucile Eaves
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Margaret Jarman Hagood
Amy Hewes
Leta Stetter Hollingworth
Joan Huber
Helen MacGill Hughes
Florence Kelley
Frances Kellor
Susan Kingsbury
Viola Klein
Alexandra Kollontai
Mirra Komarovsky
Elizabeth Briant Lee
Rose Hum Lee
Helena Znaniecka Lopata
Helen Merrell Lynd
Annie Marion MacLean
Harriet Martineau
Alice Masaryk
Alva Myrdal
Virginia Olesen
Elsie Clews Parsons
Matilda White Riley
Caroline Baer Rose
Alice S. Rossi
Ethel Shanas
Dorothy E. Smith
Anna Garlin Spencer
Irene B. Taeuber
Jessie Taft
Marion Talbot
Dorothy Swaine Thomas
Mary van Kleeck
Rosalie Wax
Beatrice Webb
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Hattie Plum Williams
Appendix: Additional Notable Women Sociologists
Author Index
Subject Index
About the author
MARY JO DEEGAN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests include theory, methods, women, disability, and the history of sociology. She has published more than 80 articles, chapters, and books, including American Ritual Dramas (Greenwood, 1989) and Women in Sociology (Greenwood, 1991), and coedited With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Greenwood, 1997).
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Thus, scholars in disciplines other than sociology, including American studies, criminology, economics, history, literature, political science, law, psychology, social psychology, social work, women's studies, and urban studies, will find this volume of significant interest.
