Linda Gordon
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Linda Gordon | |
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| Born | Chicago |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Subjects | arts; history |
| Spouse | Allen Hunter |
Linda Gordon is an American feminist and
Career
Linda Gordon was born[
She taught at the
Starting in the 1970s, Gordon's research and writing examined the historical roots of contemporary social policy debates in the US, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. Her book on these topics, Woman's Body, Woman's Right (published in 1976 and reissued in 1990), remains the definitive history of birth control politics in the US. It was completely revised and re-published in 2002 as The Moral Property of Women.
In 1988 she published a historical study of how the U.S. has dealt with
Pitied But Not Entitled, her history of welfare, won the Berkshire Prize for best book in women's history and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award. Gordon was active with the failed campaign of a group of scholars of welfare protesting the repeal of Aid to Families with Dependent Children in 1996.
She served on the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women during the Clinton administration.[5]
Changing direction in the 1990s, Gordon began to explore narrative, story-telling history, as a way of bringing large-scale historical developments to life. A westerner herself, she wanted to write stories that would help to counteract the
Her biography of photographer
Gordon was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.[7]
In 2017, Gordon published The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition.[8]
References
- ^ "Department of History". history.fas.nyu.edu.
- ^ "Editorial Board | JHU Press". www.press.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
- ^ "Masthead". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
- ^ "Unique Family Study". University of Massachusetts at Boston, the Spectator. II (6): 2. February 19, 1979.
- ^ "Department of Justice news release, 1/23/1996".
- ^ Lassonde, Stephen (January 9, 2000). "Family Values, 1904 Version". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
Writings
- Gordon, Linda (1976). Woman's Body, Woman's Right: the History of Birth Control Politics in America. Viking/Penguin. ISBN 9780140131277. Details.
- Gordon, Linda (1983). Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780873956543. Details.
- Gordon, Linda (1988). Heroes of Their Own Lives: the Politics and History of Family Violence : Boston, 1880-1960. Viking/Penguin. ISBN 9780252070792. Reissued by the University of Illinois Press 2002. Details.
- Gordon, Linda (1994). Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare. Free Press. ISBN 9780674669826. Harvard University Press 1995. Details.
- Gordon, Linda; ISBN 9780226073996.
- Gordon, Linda (1999). The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674360419. Details.
- Gordon, Linda (2002). The Moral Property of Women. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252027642. Details.
- Gordon, Linda (2006). Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment in World War II. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0393060737. Details.
- Gordon, Linda (2009). Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393057300. Details.
- Gordon, Linda (2017). The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition. Liveright. ISBN 978-1631493690. Details.
- Gordon, Linda (2018). Inge Morath: Magnum Legacy - An Illustrated Biography. Magnum Foundation/Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-8201-2.
Books edited
- Gordon, Linda; ISBN 9780393312621. Details.Revised ed. 1995.
- Gordon, Linda, ed. (1990). Women, the State, and Welfare. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299126643. Details.
- Gordon, Linda; ISBN 9780465017072.
Selected articles
- The Perils of Innocence, or What's Wrong with Putting Children First (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Why policies that seem to put children first have so often disadvantaged children. (in Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 1 #3, Fall 2008.)
- The New Deal Was a Good Idea, We Should Try It.
- Gordon, Linda (2002). "If Progressives Were Advising US Today, Should We Listen?". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 1 (2): 109–121. S2CID 154545513. (Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, April 2002)
- "How 'Welfare' Became a Dirty Word". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 1994-07-20.
- A Genealogy of Dependency (PDF).[dead link], with Nancy Fraser, in Signs 19 #2, winter 1994.
- Gordon, Linda (1991). "Black and White Visions of Welfare". The Journal of American History. 78 (2): 559–590. JSTOR 2079534., in Journal of American History 78 #2, 1991.
- Translating 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05., (The Nation, May 29, 2008)
- Lawrence, Bruce B.; Karim, Aisha (2007-12-06). Social Control and the Powers of the Weak. ISBN 978-0822337690., in On Violence: a Reader, ed. Bruce B. Lawrence and Aisha Karim, 2007.
External links
- "Author's website"
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- "Linda Gordon", History News Network, November 12, 2006
- Student papers, 1976. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
