Linda Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 88 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 660 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Tributes to Robert W. McChesney
To conclude our special issue on Robert W. McChesney's legacy, MR presents a series of tributes capturing his impact on the world around him. The diversity represented by these illustrious contributors, from his colleagues at the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) to Senator Bernie Sanders, is a testament to McChesney's enduring influence
Jennifer Koshatka Seman. Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo
Journal Article Jennifer Koshatka Seman. Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo. Get access Jennifer Koshatka Seman. Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo. Austin, TX: University of Texas, 2021. Pp 232. Paper $34.95. Linda Gordon Linda Gordon New York University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…
Comment by Linda Gordon
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022)
Journal Article MEMOIRS AND OBITUARIESBarbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022) Get access Linda Gordon Linda Gordon New York University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, dbad009, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbad009 Published: 11 November 2023
La interseccionalidad, el feminismo socialista y el activismo contemporáneo: Reflexiones De Una Feminista Socialista De La Segunda Ola
Título original: ''Intersectionality', Socialist Feminism and Contemporary Activism: Musings by a Second-Wave Socialist Feminist'. Gender & History, Vol.28 No.2 August 2016, pp. 340-357. Traducción de Lía Diaz
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Biobanks and the Moral Concerns of Donors: A Democratic Deliberation
Do members of the public believe that biobanks should accommodate the moral concerns of donors about the types of research done with their biospecimens? The answer to this question is critical to the future of genomic and precision medicine, endeavors that rely on a public willing to share their biospecimens and medical data. To explore public attitudes regarding the requirements of consent for biobank donations, we organized three democratic del…
A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
xiv, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm
Dorothea Lange's Censored Photographs of the Japanese American Internment
While Dorothea Lange has long been widely known and acclaimed for her photographs depicting the impact of the Great Depression on farmers and laborers, her documentation of the Japanese American internment was long impounded by the US army. This article tells the story and shows some of the signature images contained in her documentation of the internment as well as explaining their long suppression
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Journal Article The Secret History of Wonder Woman Get access By Jill Lepore. (New York: Knopf, 2014. xiv, 410 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 230–231, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw102 Published: 01 June 2016
Intersectionality', Socialist Feminism and Contemporary Activism: Musings by a Second-Wave Socialist Feminist
1970s socialist feminist theory in the USA, like older socialist feminisms, anticipated much of today's 'intersectionality' by recognising multiple forms of domination and refusing to rank them in importance. Today's intersectionality has gone further in incorporating LBGTQ values and in the term's use by many activist groups. That activist appropriation of an originally academic term, arising from critical legal feminism, illustrates a striking …
Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation , by Estelle B. Freedman
Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation, by Estelle B. Freedman. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2013. 387 pp. $35 US (cloth). Estelle Freedman is arguably the most distinguished historian of US sexual history. Her 1988 Intimate Matters, co-written with John D'Emilio, provided a synthesis of historical change in sexual practices and meanings from the earliest days of the republic, so it is no surprise that her…
Socialist Feminism: The Legacy of the “Second Wave”
Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Une « guerre contre les femmes » ? Pas si simple: Le contrôle des naissances et la politique américaine
Depuis la naissance de la « Nouvelle droite » américaine dans les années 1960, la direction du Parti républicain a cherché à gagner l’adhésion de pans de la population qui par ailleurs seraient enclins à rejeter les choix économiques républicains en axant ses campagnes sur les problèmes « sociaux », lesquels sont essentiellement des questions relatives au genre et au sexe. Ainsi, depuis 2008 et notamment pendant la campagne électorale de 2012, le…
Gerda Lerner, 1920 - 2013
This piece is an appreciation of the sources and significance of the work of Gerda Lerner, 1920 - 2013
Gerda Lerner (1920-2013): Féministe, pionnière de l’histoire des femmes
L’historienne Gerda Lerner était remarquable par son éloquence, sa perspicacité et son courage. Toujours prête à défendre l’importance de l’histoire dans sa quête de justice sociale, elle a consacré sa vie à démontrer que les femmes ont une histoire et que le fait de s’en rendre compte avait un impact sur la conscience collective. « Écrire l’histoire en pensant aux femmes », écrivait-elle dans l’un des essais qui composent le recueil intitulé Why…
The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State
Women, the State, and Welfare
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Better Than Nothing: Participant Experiences in Using a County Health Plan
The United States health care system has reached a crisis point, with 49.9 million Americans now living without health insurance (DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, and Smith 2011). The United States government has responded to this crisis in a variety of ways, perhaps the most visible being the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March 2010. With a goal of expanding access to health insurance to 32 million Americans by 2019,…
Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
From the 1890s through the 1920s, a transnational mining industry thrived in the Sonoran highlands, stretching from southeastern Arizona across to southwestern New Mexico and down into Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Several hundred thousand people in the area — not only mine workers, owners, and managers but also small businesspeople, truck farmers, ranchers, bar owners, prostitutes, maids, and other women and children — considered this borderland…
Internal Colonialism and Gender
The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States (review)
Reviewed by: The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States Linda Gordon Gene Burns . The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 340 pp. $70.00 (cloth, 0-521-55209-5), $24.99 (paperbound, 0-521-60984-4). This is not at core a medical history, but rather an argument within the sociology of social moveme…
A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State
Dependency” Demystified: Inscriptions of Power in a Keyword of the Welfare State
Dependency is the single most crucial term in the current U.S. debate about reform. Welfare in the United States means someone who relies on one of the stigmatized programs of public assistance, as distinguished from honorable programs such as old age insurance, which are not called welfare. The paradigmatic dependent is the poor solo mother who collects benefits from the stingy and politically unpopular program, Aid to Families with Dependent Ch…
Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activism, 1890-1945
Journal Article Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activism, 1890–1945 Get access Linda Gordon Linda Gordon Florence Kelley Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 559–590, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079534 Published: 01 September 1991
Who Deserves Help? Who Must Provide
Human societies have always provided help for the needy, and this provision has frequently been calibrated according to notions of deservingness and obligation. These notions have been shaped by gendered double standards, including measures of sexual morality, personal demeanor, housekeeping, and self-sacrifice, that are applied to women but not to men. Most fundamental, the fact that women are the primary child raisers has given many of them, in…
The New Scholarship on Family Violence
Single Parenthood in 1900
The Public Use Sample of the 1900 census was used to examine single parenthood in the U.S. population overall, in seven major cities, and in four predominately rural states. The data allow us to identify single parent subfamilies, a group missed by reports based on published census statistics. The proportion of children living with single parents in 1900 approximated that of 1960:8.5 percent as compared with 9.1 percent. Migration and immigration…
Intersectionality', Socialist Feminism and Contemporary Activism: Musings by a Second-Wave Socialist Feminist
1970s socialist feminist theory in the USA, like older socialist feminisms, anticipated much of today's 'intersectionality' by recognising multiple forms of domination and refusing to rank them in importance. Today's intersectionality has gone further in incorporating LBGTQ values and in the term's use by many activist groups. That activist appropriation of an originally academic term, arising from critical legal feminism, illustrates a striking …
Seeking Ecstacy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth Century Feminist Sexual Thought
It is often alleged that female sexuality is a more complex matter than men's, and, if so, a major reason is that sex spells potential danger as well as pleasure for women. A feminist politics about sex, therefore, if it is to be credible as well as hopeful, must seek both to protect women from sexual danger and to encourage their pursuit of sexual pleasure. This complex understanding of female sexuality has not always characterized the feminist …
Single Mothers and Child Neglect, 1880-1920
IN 1917 CORA SIMPSON, A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF GIRLS AGED THREE and one-and-a-half, came to the office of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) seeking help.2 She was penniless, she said, because her husband had deserted her. Some excerpts from her case record may be of interest, both as an introduction to the issues that will be discussed here and to the sources on which this essay is based
Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought
The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Notes from American History
In the early 1970s, when a radical feminist consciousness pulled incest out of the closet, we thought we were engaged in an unprecedented discovery. In fact, charity volunteers and social workers a century earlier dealt with incest cases daily, understanding them to be a standard, expected part of the caseload of a child-protective agency such as a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. How are we to explain this historical amnesia? L…
Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control
Incest as a Form of Family Violence: Evidence from Historical Case Records
Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America
Journal Article Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. By Linda Gordon. (New York: Grossman, 1976. xviii + 479 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.50.) Get access David M. Kennedy David M. Kennedy Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 3, December 1977, Pages 823–824, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887308 Publishe…
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Journal Article The Secret History of Wonder Woman Get access By Jill Lepore. (New York: Knopf, 2014. xiv, 410 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 230–231, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw102 Published: 01 June 2016
The New Literature on Gender and the Welfare State: The U.S. Case
Incest and Resistance: Patterns of Father-Daughter Incest, 1880-1930
Incest as a form of family violence appeared in 10 percent of case records of Boston child-protection agencies between 1880 and 1930. These were overwhelmingly (98 percent) cases of father-daughter incest, and they shared a common pattern: the family relations made the girl victims into second wives, taking over many of the roles and functions of mothers, including housework, child care, and sexual relations with their father. Despite their appar…
The Selfless and the Helpless: Maternalist Origins of the U.S. Welfare State
Feminist Analyses of Public Policy
The Working Class Has Two Sexes
From a feminist perspective, Harry Braverman's focus in Labor and Monopoly Capital on the way industrial capitalism reorganizes and continually splits up the labor process has special importance. This focus provides the basis for a renewed revolutionary view of people's labor, an insistence that socialism cannot be created by a mere transfer of ownership of products but must transform the processes of work and daily life. The powerlessness of wom…
Biobanks and the Moral Concerns of Donors: A Democratic Deliberation
Do members of the public believe that biobanks should accommodate the moral concerns of donors about the types of research done with their biospecimens? The answer to this question is critical to the future of genomic and precision medicine, endeavors that rely on a public willing to share their biospecimens and medical data. To explore public attitudes regarding the requirements of consent for biobank donations, we organized three democratic del…
Re-Viewing the Second Wave
Women's Bodies and Feminist Subversions
Contrato versus caridad: Una Reconsideración De La Relación Entre Ciudadanía Civil Y Ciudadanía Social
En este trabajo se analiza la «mitología cultural" que impregna la concepción de la ciudadanía civil en los Estados Unidos, la cual, para nuestras autoras, es una rémora en orden a que pueda aflorar un nuevo concepto de la «ciudadanía social». Para desbrozar el terreno, desde un punto de vista ideológico, en el que podrían emerger nuevas conceptualizaciones adecuadas para el ideal de la ciudadanía social, Fraser y Gordon hacen una genealogía del …
Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
From the 1890s through the 1920s, a transnational mining industry thrived in the Sonoran highlands, stretching from southeastern Arizona across to southwestern New Mexico and down into Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Several hundred thousand people in the area — not only mine workers, owners, and managers but also small businesspeople, truck farmers, ranchers, bar owners, prostitutes, maids, and other women and children — considered this borderland…
A review of sexism in American historical writing
(1972). A review of sexism in American historical writing. Women's Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 133-158
The Working Class Has Two Sexes
From a feminist perspective, Harry Braverman's focus in Labor and Monopoly Capital on the way industrial capitalism reorganizes and continually splits up the labor process has special importance. This focus provides the basis for a renewed revolutionary view of people's labor, an insistence that socialism cannot be created by a mere transfer of ownership of products but must transform the processes of work and daily life. The powerlessness of wom…
Are the Interests of Men and Women Identical
Boston Working Women Protest, 1869
America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present
Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America
Journal Article Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. By Linda Gordon. (New York: Grossman, 1976. xviii + 479 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.50.) Get access David M. Kennedy David M. Kennedy Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 3, December 1977, Pages 823–824, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887308 Publishe…
The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian Ameica
Beginning with a general background consisting of Alexis de Tocqueville's view of the effects of democracy on American men and on their relations to women, the author next discusses the male domination of parturition in America and the im- portant international standing of American gynaecological surgery in the nineteenth century, including an account of J. Marion Sims.The third and fourth parts of the book deal with individuals: the Rev. John To…
Silent Sisterhood: Middle Class Women in the Victorian Home. Patricia Branca
Women's History: Culture and Feminization
America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present
A landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history. Now the authors have enlarged the dimensions of this important anthology; more than half the selections and all the introductory material are new. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present, selections from diaries, popular magazines, historical works, oral histories, letters, songs, poetry, and fiction show wom…
The History and Politics of Birth Control
Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America
Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights
Journal Article Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights. By Lois W. Banner. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. xiii + 189 pp. Illustrations, note on the sources, and index. $9.95.) Get access Linda Gordon Linda Gordon University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3, December 1980, Pages 704–705, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889930 Publ…
Woman and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900 . Ruth Bordin Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 . Estelle B. Freedman
Sisters and Workers
Other| October 01 1982 Sisters and Workers Meredith Tax, The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880–1977. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1981, xviii + 332 pages. $8.50. Linda Gordon Linda Gordon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1982) 1982 (26): 132–139. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1982-26-132 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation …
Malthusianism, socialism and feminism in the United States
(1983). Malthusianism, socialism and feminism in the United States. History of European Ideas: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 203-214
Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought
Seeking Ecstacy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth Century Feminist Sexual Thought
It is often alleged that female sexuality is a more complex matter than men's, and, if so, a major reason is that sex spells potential danger as well as pleasure for women. A feminist politics about sex, therefore, if it is to be credible as well as hopeful, must seek both to protect women from sexual danger and to encourage their pursuit of sexual pleasure. This complex understanding of female sexuality has not always characterized the feminist …
The New Scholarship on Family Violence
Child Abuse and Moral Reform in England 1870-1908
Incest as a Form of Family Violence: Evidence from Historical Case Records
Single Mothers and Child Neglect, 1880-1920
IN 1917 CORA SIMPSON, A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF GIRLS AGED THREE and one-and-a-half, came to the office of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) seeking help.2 She was penniless, she said, because her husband had deserted her. Some excerpts from her case record may be of interest, both as an introduction to the issues that will be discussed here and to the sources on which this essay is based
Who Is Frightened of Reproductive Freedom for Women and Why? Some Historical Answers
In addition to commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the court decision recognizing birth control as a legal right, this conference marks for me a personal anniversary: ten years have passed since the publication of my book on the history of the birth control movement. If I were rewriting that book now, I might shift its emphases somewhat, in light of the events of the last decade. First, I would underscore the historical continuity of the s…
Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
Journal Article Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. By Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. (New York: Knopf, 1985. viii + 357 pp. $19.95.) Get access Linda Gordon Linda Gordon University of WisconsinMadison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Pages 477–478, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908274 Published: 01 September 1986
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