Making Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women's history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women's and ...gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women's and gender history? What are its shortcomings? What is its future?The contributors discuss their discovery of women's histories,the multiple turns the field has taken, and how place affected the course of this scholarship. Noted scholars of women's and gender history, they stand atop such historiographically-defined vantage points as Tsarist Russia, the British Empire in Egypt and India, Qing-dynasty China, and the U.S. roiling through the 1960s. From these and other peaks they gaze out at the world around them, surveying trajectories in the creation of women's histories in recent and distant pasts and envisioning their futures.
Response Nadell, Pamela S
American Jewish history,
01/2021, Letnik:
105, Številka:
1-2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
A recent book substantiates her speculation that far more rabbis than Jewish studies scholars have ever appeared before Congress.3 She reminds us of the legal bases of discrimination against Jews, ...African Americans, and other minorities. Since testifying, I have joined colleagues around the country, including Michael Brenner, Paola Tartakoff, and Britt Tevis, in developing new courses on antisemitism. Stern's recent book, The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate, provides the fullest account I have seen of this history.6 Jewish advocacy groups sitting at the Judiciary Committee's hearing table, like the Simon Wiesenthal Center, would learn much by reading it.
Nadell comments on the roundtable at the Jewish Women and Philanthropy conference. Among other things, she explains how best to use philanthropy and womanpower to ameliorate social ills, and that ...social entrepreneurship advocates emulating business entrepreneurs in imagining new ways to solve problems.
The pioneers of women's ordination left a spiritual legacy. Moreover, it is one whose themes unconsciously reverberate in the lives of their heirs, the women who became rabbis. Illuminating the ...lives, careers, and teachings of the pioneering generation of women rabbis, Wisdom You Are My Sister reveals that their spiritual concerns mirror those of the women who would have been rabbis.