Generations of Women Historians

Chapter 1 Introduction: Women’s Scholarship Within and Outside the Academy, 1870–1960

Chapter 3 Alice Clark’s Critique of Capitalism

Chapter 4 Julia Cherry Spruill, Historian of Southern Colonial Women

Chapter 5 “No Leisure for Myself ”: C.C. Stopes and British Freewomen

Chapter 6 C. V. Wedgwood: The Historian and the World

Chapter 7 Caroline Robbins: An Anglo-American Historian

Chapter 8 Arvède Barine: History, Modernity, and Feminism

Chapter 9 The Historian and the Empress: Isabel de Madariaga’s Catherine the Great

Chapter 10 Eleanor Flexner: Civil Rights and Feminist Activism and Writing

Chapter 11 Women’s Literary History in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France: Louise de Kéralio and Henriette Guizot de Witt

Chapter 12 Ruth Benedict: An Anthropologist’s Historical Writings

Chapter 13 Nancy Mitford: Lessons for Historians from a Best-Selling Author

Chapter 14 Conclusion: Understanding Women Historians’ Lives and Scholarly Reputations Both Within and Outside the Academy