Gender and American Social Science:
The Formative Years
Edited by Helene Silverberg

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
Ch. 1	Introduction: Toward a Gendered Social Science History	3
Ch. 2	The "Sphere of Women" in Early-Twentieth-Century Economics	35
Ch. 3	"Politics Would Undoubtedly Unwoman Her": Gender, Suffrage, and American Political Science	61
Ch. 4	"Wild West" Anthropology and the Disciplining of Gender	86
Ch. 5	Hull-House Maps and Papers: Social Science as Women's Work in the 1890s	127
Ch. 6	"A Government of Men": Gender, the City, and the New Science of Politics	156
Ch. 7	The Establishment of an Applied Social Science: Home Economists, Science, and Reform at Cornell University, 1870-1930	185
Ch. 8	Gendered Social Knowledge: Domestic Discourse, Jane Addams, and the Possibilities of Social Science	235
Ch. 9	Bringing Social Science Back Home: Theory and Practice in the Life and Work of Elsie Clews Parsons	265
Ch. 10	The "Self-Applauding Sincerity" of Overreaching Theory, Biography as Ethical Practice, and the Case of Mary van Kleeck	293
	Index	327

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