Lauri Umansky
Biographic Data
| ID | 5368844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauri Umansky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauri |
| FAMILY NAME | Umansky |
| SIGNATURE | UMANSKY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arkansas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Keith Wailoo. Pain
As opioid addiction advances through the U.S., trampling barriers of class, race, and region, the topics Keith Wailoo tackles in Pain: A Political History assume particular relevance. Wailoo begins this chronicle of the public discourse about pain in the post–World War II period, when thousands of soldiers returned from battle seeking relief from war-induced suffering. Liberals and conservatives soon posted sentinels at the expected ideological s…
Polio
Reviewed by: Polio: An American Story, and: The Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis, and: Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture, and: Living with Polio: The Epidemic and its Survivors Lauri Umansky David M. Oshinsky . Polio: An American Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 342 pp. Ill. $30.00 (ISBN-10: 0-19-515294-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515294-4). Bernard Seytre and Mary Shaffer . The Death …
The new disability history
A glimpse into the struggle of the disabled for identity and society's perception of the disabled traces the disabled's fight for rights from the antebellum era to present controversies over access.
Making sense of women's lives
Making Sense of Women's Lives presents a wide range of writings about women's lives in the United States. Michele Plott and Lauri Umansky have drawn on their experiences as both students and professors to assemble the collection. Seeking to provide as full a sampling from a diverse and intellectually vibrant field as one volume permits, the editors have also chosen writing that makes an enjoyable read. A few of the selections here represent the u…
Crazy for Democracy
Journal Article Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. By Temma Kaplan. New York: Routledge and No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest. Ed. by Kathleen M. Blee. New York: New York University Press Get access Lauri Umansky Lauri Umansky Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1689–1690, htt…
"Bad" mothers
Motherhood Reconceived
Journal Article Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties. By Lauri Umansky. (New York: New York University Press, 1996. x, 262 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-8561-1. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8147-8562-X.) Get access Jane Lewis Jane Lewis All Souls College Oxford, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1593–1594, https:…
Motherhood Reconceived
Motherhood Reconceived
The 1960s heralded the birth of a number of forces that threatened to permanently change the face of the existing post-Freudian, Cold War social order; not the least of these forces was the Second Wave of the women's movement. Many feminists were attracted to the ranks of the burgeoning New Left and counterculture movements because of their emphasis on dismantling the nuclear family, promoting a greater sense of community, and rediscovering a bac…
"Bad" mothers
Motherhood Reconceived
Journal Article Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties. By Lauri Umansky. (New York: New York University Press, 1996. x, 262 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-8561-1. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8147-8562-X.) Get access Jane Lewis Jane Lewis All Souls College Oxford, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1593–1594, https:…
Motherhood Reconceived
Motherhood Reconceived
The 1960s heralded the birth of a number of forces that threatened to permanently change the face of the existing post-Freudian, Cold War social order; not the least of these forces was the Second Wave of the women's movement. Many feminists were attracted to the ranks of the burgeoning New Left and counterculture movements because of their emphasis on dismantling the nuclear family, promoting a greater sense of community, and rediscovering a bac…
"Bad" mothers
Motherhood Reconceived
Journal Article Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties. By Lauri Umansky. (New York: New York University Press, 1996. x, 262 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-8561-1. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8147-8562-X.) Get access Jane Lewis Jane Lewis All Souls College Oxford, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1593–1594, https:…
Crazy for Democracy
Journal Article Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. By Temma Kaplan. New York: Routledge and No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest. Ed. by Kathleen M. Blee. New York: New York University Press Get access Lauri Umansky Lauri Umansky Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1689–1690, htt…
Making sense of women's lives
Making Sense of Women's Lives presents a wide range of writings about women's lives in the United States. Michele Plott and Lauri Umansky have drawn on their experiences as both students and professors to assemble the collection. Seeking to provide as full a sampling from a diverse and intellectually vibrant field as one volume permits, the editors have also chosen writing that makes an enjoyable read. A few of the selections here represent the u…
The new disability history
A glimpse into the struggle of the disabled for identity and society's perception of the disabled traces the disabled's fight for rights from the antebellum era to present controversies over access.
Polio
Reviewed by: Polio: An American Story, and: The Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis, and: Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture, and: Living with Polio: The Epidemic and its Survivors Lauri Umansky David M. Oshinsky . Polio: An American Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 342 pp. Ill. $30.00 (ISBN-10: 0-19-515294-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515294-4). Bernard Seytre and Mary Shaffer . The Death …
Keith Wailoo. Pain
As opioid addiction advances through the U.S., trampling barriers of class, race, and region, the topics Keith Wailoo tackles in Pain: A Political History assume particular relevance. Wailoo begins this chronicle of the public discourse about pain in the post–World War II period, when thousands of soldiers returned from battle seeking relief from war-induced suffering. Liberals and conservatives soon posted sentinels at the expected ideological s…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)