Elaine S Abelson

Biographic Data

ID262528
NAMEElaine S Abelson
GIVEN NAMESElaine S
FAMILY NAMEAbelson
SIGNATUREABELSON E S
AFFILIATIONSNew School
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • Framing American History

    Open AccessElaine S Abelson, Daniel P KotzinARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2020References: 2

    Editors' Introduction

  • Structuring Poverty in the Windy City

    Open AccessElaine S AbelsonARTICLEJournal of American History2020

    Investigations of poverty and of social engineering of the poor are not uncommon topics, nor are studies of urban development in Chicago or the history of the Great Migration. What is unique in Structuring Poverty in the Windy City and what gives power to its analysis is the way the author has created a successful typology of poverty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Compulsory autonomy, virtue, and isolation—the three analyti…

  • The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s

    Elaine S AbelsonARTICLEJournal of American History2014Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise Get access Jayne Morris-Crowther. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. x, 217 pp. $44.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Page 295, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau169 Published: 01 June 2014

  • Urban Castles

    Elaine S Abelson, Jared N DayARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890–1943. By Jared N. Day. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xii, 262 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-231-11402-8. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-231-11403-6.) Get access Elaine S. Abelson Elaine S. Abelson New School University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issu…

  • Homeless in America

    Open AccessElaine S AbelsonARTICLEJournal of Urban History1999

  • "The "Girl Problem

    Elaine S Abelson, Ruth M Alexander et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

  • The City as Playground

    Open AccessElaine S AbelsonARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1996References: 2

    The City as Playground: Culture, Conflict, and Race Elaine S. Abelson (bio) Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. By David Nasaw. New York: Basic Books, 1993. 312 pages. $25.00 (cloth), $14.00 (paper). Popular culture has been one of the most significant and enduring American exports in the second half of the twentieth century. Music, movies, television sitcoms and MTV, Coca-Cola and McDonalds, even the Levi’s that are no longer manu…

  • Transforming Women's Work

    Elaine S Abelson, Thomas DublinARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995

  • When Ladies Go A-Thieving

    Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Elaine S AbelsonARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991

  • When Ladies Go A-Thieving

    Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Morantz‐sanchez et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store. By Elaine S. Abelson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xii + 292 pp. $29.95.) Get access Regina Morantz-Sanchez Regina Morantz-Sanchez University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1381, https://doi.org/10.2…

  • Born for Liberty

    Elaine S AbelsonREVIEWJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. By Sara M. Evans. (New York: Free Press, 1989. xii + 386 pp. $24.95.) Get access Elaine S. Abelson Elaine S. Abelson Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Page 978, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079002 Published: 01 December 1990

  • The Invention of Kleptomania

    Elaine S AbelsonARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…1989Cited by: 3