Generations of Women Historians

Hilda L. Smith is Emerita Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati, USA.Melinda S. Zook is Professor of History at Purdue University, USA.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Women’s Scholarship Within and Outside the Academy, 1870-1960; Hilda L. Smith.- Part I. Women and the Medieval and Early Modern Economy.- Chapter 2: Ellen Annette McArthur: Establishing a Presence in the  Academy; Amy Erickson.- Chapter 3: Alice Clark’s Critique of Capitalism; Tim Stretton.- Chapter 4: Julia Cherry Spruill, Historian of Southern Colonial Women; Anna Suranyi.- Part II.Politics and Citizenship in Early Modern Britain.- Chapter 5: ‘No Leisure for Myself:’ C.C. Stopes and British Freewomen; Hilda L. Smith.- Chapter 6: C.V. Wedgwood: The Historian and the World;  Melinda S. Zook.- Chapter 7: Caroline Robbins: Anglo-American Historian; Lois G. Schwoerer.- Part III. Women and Modern Politics.- Chapter 8: The Historian and the Empress: Isabel de Madariaga’s Catherine the Great; Willard Sunderland.- Chapter 9: Arvède Barine: History, Modernity,and Feminism; Whitney Walton.- Chapter 10: Eleanor Flexner:  Civil Rights and Feminist Activism; M. Christine Anderson.- Part IV. Alternate Paths to Historical Scholarship.- Chapter 11: Women’s Literary History in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France: Louise de Kéralio and Henriette Guizot de Witt; Mihoko Suzuki.- Chapter 12: Ruth Benedict: An Anthropologist’s Historical Writings; Tracy Teslow.- Chapter 13: Nancy Mitford: Lessons for Historians from a Best-Selling Author; Judith Zinsser.- Part V. Conclusion.- Chapter 14: Bonnie Smith, Conclusion: Understanding Women Historians’ Lives and Scholarly Reputations both within and outside the Academy.- Index.