Leonard Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 78920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1598-1959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 144 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 702 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 144 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
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
The Hearth as the Heart of the Family: Aboriginal Foodways and Daily Lives at the Former Weipa Mission (1898–1932), Waypandan, North-Eastern Australia
This chapter explores the foodways and daily lives of Aboriginal people at the former Weipa Mission, North-Eastern Australia. Christian Missions were a vital part of the colonising repertoire of the British in Australia, as elsewhere, but despite the hardships and traumatic histories these places represent, they are frequently of very high cultural significance to First Nations’ People today. As in many colonial settings, documentary records are …
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…
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Fascism in America: Past and Present
Has fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascist ideas have long been present within American society. Since the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016, scholars have debated wh…
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
Destroying Democracy: Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics
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 …
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Book Review| December 01 2015 Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. Katznelson, Ira. New York: Liveright, 2013xii + 706 pp., $29.95 (cloth) Linda Gordon Linda Gordon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2015) 12 (4): 145–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3155313 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data P…
Social Movements
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
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,…
Home at last
Introduction: Our practice-oriented question was 'how can the community sector work with their local hospitals to smooth the patient's transition home from hospital'.Our answer was Home At Last, an innovative hospital-community collaboration in the Greater Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Objective: To ensure that when seniors have had a hospital stay or emergency department visit, they are discharged in a timely manner and transitioned back to the commu…
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
Images of black women among anglo college students
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 …
Dorothea Lange: The Photographer as Agricultural Sociologist
For suggestions on how to use this article in the U.S. history classroom, see our “Teaching the JAH” Web project at http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/teaching/. To a startling degree, popular understanding of the Great Depression of the 1930s derives from visual images, and among them, Dorothea Lange's are the most influential. Although many do not know her name, her photographs live in the subconscious of virtually anyone in the United States who has …
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
Minorities and Women in the Pacific Sociological Association Region: A Five-Year Progress Report
Based on a five-year follow-up survey of sociology departments in the Pacific Sociological Association region, we report trends in the representation of women and minorities among faculty members and graduate students. Although men continue to predominate at all but the lecturer/instructor level, women are increasingly represented on faculties overall, in tenured positions, and among the higher academic ranks. Proportionally fewer men and women a…
United States Opposition to Use of Force in the Taiwan Strait, 1954-1962
Journal Article United States Opposition to Use of Force in the Taiwan Strait, 1954–1962 Get access Leonard H. D. Gordon Leonard H. D. Gordon associate professor of Chinese history Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 637–660, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904307 Published: 01 December 1985
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…
The Making of a Myth: The United States and China, 1897-1912
Journal Article The Making of a Myth: The United States and China, 1897–1912. By Paul A. Varg. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1968. 184 pp. Notes and index. $6.00.) Get access Leonard Gordon Leonard Gordon Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 1, June 1969, Pages 158–159, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902108 Published: 01 June 1969
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…
Early American Relations with Formosa, 1849‐1870
(1957). Early American Relations with Formosa, 1849‐1870. The Historian: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 262-289
Japanese People and Politics
Storm over Laos: A Contemporary History
Battle of Vientiane 1960
China Assignment
Journal Article China Assignment. By Karl Lott Rankin. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964. xix + 343 pp. Map, photographs, and index. $6.95.) Get access Leonard Gordon Leonard Gordon University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 1, June 1965, Pages 174–175, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901183 Published: 01 June 1965
An Eastern Entrepot: A Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Hong Kong. By G. B. Endacott. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964. (Department of Technical Co-operation, Overseas …
Japan's Abortive Colonial Venture in Taiwan, 1874
Asian Revolutionary: The Life of Sen Katayama. Hyman Kublin
United States Diplomacy in China, 1844-60
China and the West, 1858-1861: The Origins of the Tsungli Yamen. Masataka Banno
Formosa: A Study in Chinese History
Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots, 1891-1900 . Edmund S. Wehrle
The Chinese People's Liberation Army
American Planning for Taiwan, 1942-1945
Research Article| May 01 1968 American Planning for Taiwan, 1942-1945 Leonard Gordon Leonard Gordon Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1968) 37 (2): 201–228. https://doi.org/10.2307/3637072 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang , by James E. Sheridan, Reformer in Modern China: Chang Chien, 1853-1926 . by Samuel C. Chu
Lincoln and Juárez-A Brief Reassessment of Their Relationship
WT THEN PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON unveiled a statue of Abraham Lincoln in a residential area of Mexico City on April 14, 1966, he unwittingly contributed to perpetuating a very unlhistorical legend about the relationship between Lincoln and Mexico 's Benito Juarez-two great liberators.1 Because the two men were contemporaries, and had similar careers and personalities, their alleged friendship has become symbolic of amiable relations between th…
The Making of a Myth: The United States and China, 1897-1912
Journal Article The Making of a Myth: The United States and China, 1897–1912. By Paul A. Varg. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1968. 184 pp. Notes and index. $6.00.) Get access Leonard Gordon Leonard Gordon Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 1, June 1969, Pages 158–159, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902108 Published: 01 June 1969
Suburban consensus formation and the race issue
The Detroit suburb of Oak Park, Michigan, attained the status of an independent urban school district in 1952 (Oak Park, 1962, p. 3). Between the years of 1952 and 1960 this suburban community was characterized by a high degree of community consensus in support of increased taxes for the local public school system. Ten school bond and millage elections were held and passed during this period. In 1962 and 1963 additional millage elections were hel…
The Politics of Formosan Nationalism
John K. Fairbank and His Critics in the Republic of China
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Emergent White Protestant Student Perception of Jews
DURINrG THE 1930s and 1940s, white Protestant college students considerably attenuated their negative stereotype of Jews (Katz and Braly 1933; Gilbert 1951). We find that this process has continued during the past two decades. White Protestant students now attribute to Jews characteristics that are commonly regarded as part of the American value system: shrewd, intelligent, loyal to family ties, materialistic, industrious, ambitious. They have vi…
Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Korea, 1866-1887
Journal Article Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Korea, 1866–1887. By Yur-Bok Lee. (New York: Humanities Press, 1970. 211 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $7.50.) Get access Leonard H. D. Gordon Leonard H. D. Gordon Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 3, December 1971, Pages 774–775, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893783 Pu…
Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery
The Agony of Detroit
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
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