Hilda L Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilda L Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilda L |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women's Political and Social Thought
Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology is the first collection of source readings of women's important writings in political and social theory from ancient times to the twentieth century. It fills a major gap in materials available for teaching the history of political thought and opens paths for exploring the rich and diverse contributions of women as creators of theory. Not confined to works of feminist theory, this anthology makes …
Generations of Women Historians
Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition
Women Intellectuals and Intellectual History
This article integrates an exploration of intellectual history as a specialty within broader historical scholarship, its long‐term omission of women and gender issues, and an analysis of the writings of early modern women, in order to suggest how the latter provide insights into current shortcomings within intellectual history. It points to the nature of intellectual history and the blinders it places on the intellectual contributions of women: a…
Women as sextons and electors
In January, 1738/9, the Court of King's Bench took up a case, Olive v. Ingram, that seemed legally and politically insignificant. It involved a dispute between two claimants for the post of sexton in the London parish of St. Botolphs without Bishopsgate, and the amount in dispute was just five shillings. Yet the court continued the case for five months and held three separate sessions concerning its resolution. The facts of the case involved a wo…
Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of woman
Women, or ‘woman’ to use language more familiar to sixteenth and seventeenth century authors, composed a group that early modern writers felt obliged both to define and to advise. Women existed more clearly as a category in the minds of Renaissance authors than as disparate individuals. This chapter will focus on understanding what the category ‘woman’ meant during the Renaissance, and what values and social realities placed women there. What qua…
Deeds Not Words
In the years to the First World War, teaching was one of the very few career opportunities for women - a springboard semblance of independence and fulfilment. Deeds Not Words is a collective biography Agnes Dawson. Emily Phipps, Ethel Froud and Theodora Bonwick - four women who were teachers and suffragettes in the twenties and thirties. They were all socialists and union activists, whose lives were shaped and informed in various ways by their co…
The Celebrated Mary Astell
Some Recent Works on Historical Attitudes Toward Women
Writing the History of English Feminism
Feminism in Eighteenth Century England
"Comment on Carolyn Lougee's "Review Essay
Deeds Not Words
In the years to the First World War, teaching was one of the very few career opportunities for women - a springboard semblance of independence and fulfilment. Deeds Not Words is a collective biography Agnes Dawson. Emily Phipps, Ethel Froud and Theodora Bonwick - four women who were teachers and suffragettes in the twenties and thirties. They were all socialists and union activists, whose lives were shaped and informed in various ways by their co…
Women Intellectuals and Intellectual History
This article integrates an exploration of intellectual history as a specialty within broader historical scholarship, its long‐term omission of women and gender issues, and an analysis of the writings of early modern women, in order to suggest how the latter provide insights into current shortcomings within intellectual history. It points to the nature of intellectual history and the blinders it places on the intellectual contributions of women: a…
"Comment on Carolyn Lougee's "Review Essay
Writing the History of English Feminism
Feminism in Eighteenth Century England
Some Recent Works on Historical Attitudes Toward Women
The Celebrated Mary Astell
Deeds Not Words
In the years to the First World War, teaching was one of the very few career opportunities for women - a springboard semblance of independence and fulfilment. Deeds Not Words is a collective biography Agnes Dawson. Emily Phipps, Ethel Froud and Theodora Bonwick - four women who were teachers and suffragettes in the twenties and thirties. They were all socialists and union activists, whose lives were shaped and informed in various ways by their co…
Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of woman
Women, or ‘woman’ to use language more familiar to sixteenth and seventeenth century authors, composed a group that early modern writers felt obliged both to define and to advise. Women existed more clearly as a category in the minds of Renaissance authors than as disparate individuals. This chapter will focus on understanding what the category ‘woman’ meant during the Renaissance, and what values and social realities placed women there. What qua…
Women as sextons and electors
In January, 1738/9, the Court of King's Bench took up a case, Olive v. Ingram, that seemed legally and politically insignificant. It involved a dispute between two claimants for the post of sexton in the London parish of St. Botolphs without Bishopsgate, and the amount in dispute was just five shillings. Yet the court continued the case for five months and held three separate sessions concerning its resolution. The facts of the case involved a wo…
Women Intellectuals and Intellectual History
This article integrates an exploration of intellectual history as a specialty within broader historical scholarship, its long‐term omission of women and gender issues, and an analysis of the writings of early modern women, in order to suggest how the latter provide insights into current shortcomings within intellectual history. It points to the nature of intellectual history and the blinders it places on the intellectual contributions of women: a…
Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition
Generations of Women Historians
Women's Political and Social Thought
Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology is the first collection of source readings of women's important writings in political and social theory from ancient times to the twentieth century. It fills a major gap in materials available for teaching the history of political thought and opens paths for exploring the rich and diverse contributions of women as creators of theory. Not confined to works of feminist theory, this anthology makes …
History (9 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Classics (3 works)