L Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3836468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Center for Comparative Political and Economic Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Looking Left
At a time when the majority of Americans equate ‘liberal’ with ‘left’, it is not surprising that American leftists find it hard to agree what the left really is. So it is remarkable how much these two very dissimilar historians do agree. Both adopt capacious and historically changing definitions. Both see equality, democracy and freedom as core issues of the left; both consider equality the more fundamental cause, yet recognize that the left has …
Fetal Politics
Americans have been arguing about abortion for almost half a century. The controversy's tenacity reflects the power of abortion as a symbol, one so capacious that it can represent many political concerns.1 The charge sheet against abortion lists evils ranging from sexual immorality to blasphemous defiance of womanliness to murder to undermining the family to endangering civilization. Abortion's many associations may seem disconnected but in fact …
Introducing Students to Family History
Introducing Students to Family History Get access Linda Gordon Linda Gordon Linda Gordon teaches at New York University. Her most recent book, to which family history is essential, is The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 15, Issue 4, Summer 2001, Pages 19–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/15.4.19 Published: 01 June 2001
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…
A Senseless Utopia Versus an Insane Reality
A few years ago, when ethnic problems and national-state problems began to rise to the surface, a sociologist colleague told me that in this sphere there have been so many pathological turns that it was better to avoid it. His words seemed persuasive to me. And indeed it is the case that there are quite a number of nooks and crannies within us where in quiet times one does not have very much of a desire to look. Let the specialists work a bit, I …
Perestroika in Historical Perspective
A Major Obstacle to Grasping The Real Problems of perestroika is the underestimation of its contents and of the ensuing constellation of the social forces involved. Usually, perestroika is seen merely as a struggle between the advocates of democratization and sweeping economic reforms on the one hand, and the conservatives, who are deliberately or otherwise seeking to preserve the bureaucratic management practices which have emerged in the countr…
Patient education and intrauterine contraception
In July 1975 the Food and Drug Administration proposed a patient information package insert for all women considering use of an intrauterine device. In the same year we also prepared a brochure to be given to women considering use of a specific intrauterine contraceptive, the PROGESTASERT system. To compare these information sources for the patient, we surveyed by mail 253 women who are or had been PROGESTASERT system users. Each woman received e…
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…
Perestroika in Historical Perspective
A Major Obstacle to Grasping The Real Problems of perestroika is the underestimation of its contents and of the ensuing constellation of the social forces involved. Usually, perestroika is seen merely as a struggle between the advocates of democratization and sweeping economic reforms on the one hand, and the conservatives, who are deliberately or otherwise seeking to preserve the bureaucratic management practices which have emerged in the countr…
Patient education and intrauterine contraception
In July 1975 the Food and Drug Administration proposed a patient information package insert for all women considering use of an intrauterine device. In the same year we also prepared a brochure to be given to women considering use of a specific intrauterine contraceptive, the PROGESTASERT system. To compare these information sources for the patient, we surveyed by mail 253 women who are or had been PROGESTASERT system users. Each woman received e…
Perestroika in Historical Perspective
A Major Obstacle to Grasping The Real Problems of perestroika is the underestimation of its contents and of the ensuing constellation of the social forces involved. Usually, perestroika is seen merely as a struggle between the advocates of democratization and sweeping economic reforms on the one hand, and the conservatives, who are deliberately or otherwise seeking to preserve the bureaucratic management practices which have emerged in the countr…
A Senseless Utopia Versus an Insane Reality
A few years ago, when ethnic problems and national-state problems began to rise to the surface, a sociologist colleague told me that in this sphere there have been so many pathological turns that it was better to avoid it. His words seemed persuasive to me. And indeed it is the case that there are quite a number of nooks and crannies within us where in quiet times one does not have very much of a desire to look. Let the specialists work a bit, I …
Introducing Students to Family History
Introducing Students to Family History Get access Linda Gordon Linda Gordon Linda Gordon teaches at New York University. Her most recent book, to which family history is essential, is The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 15, Issue 4, Summer 2001, Pages 19–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/15.4.19 Published: 01 June 2001
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…
Fetal Politics
Americans have been arguing about abortion for almost half a century. The controversy's tenacity reflects the power of abortion as a symbol, one so capacious that it can represent many political concerns.1 The charge sheet against abortion lists evils ranging from sexual immorality to blasphemous defiance of womanliness to murder to undermining the family to endangering civilization. Abortion's many associations may seem disconnected but in fact …
Looking Left
At a time when the majority of Americans equate ‘liberal’ with ‘left’, it is not surprising that American leftists find it hard to agree what the left really is. So it is remarkable how much these two very dissimilar historians do agree. Both adopt capacious and historically changing definitions. Both see equality, democracy and freedom as core issues of the left; both consider equality the more fundamental cause, yet recognize that the left has …
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economics (2 works)