Nancy F. Cott
Nancy F. Cott | |
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Born | Nancy Falik November 8, 1945 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
Other names | Nancy Falik Cott |
Occupation | Historian |
Known for | Support of same-sex marriage |
Nancy Falik Cott (born November 8, 1945) is an American historian and professor who has taught at Yale and Harvard universities, specializing in gender topics in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. She has testified on same-sex marriage in several US states.
Early years
Nancy F. Cott was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 8, 1945. Her father was a textile manufacturer and her family origins are Austro-Hungarian Jewish. She attended public schools in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania.[1] She studied at Cornell University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1967, then went on to Brandeis University where she obtained an master's degree in American civilization in 1969.[2] She married Leland D. Cott in 1969. They have two children, born in 1974 and 1979.[1] She obtained her doctorates in American civilization from Brandeis in 1974.[2]
Career
Cott became a lecturer at Boston Public Library, then in 1975 was appointed to teach history and American studies at Yale University. Cott was assistant professor 1975–79, associate professor 1979–86 and professor 1986–90. She obtained research fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Humanities.[2] Cott was one of the founders of the Women's Studies program at Yale. She chaired the American Studies Program at Yale in the mid-1990s, and then directed the Division of the Humanities. In 1990 she was appointed Stanley Woodward Professor of History and American Studies.[2]
Cott was named
Same-sex marriage
Cott has helped write amicus curiae briefs on same-sex marriage in several states since 1999.[5] These have included challenges to the federal
Cott says she has come to favor same-sex marriages, "as a result of my historical research and study." In her view, "if gender symmetry and equality and the couples' own definition of spousal roles are characteristic of marriage, then same-sex couples seem perfectly able to fulfill those roles."
Publications
Publications include:
- Cott, Nancy F. (Winter 1978). "Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850". Signs. 4 (2). The University of Chicago Press: 219–236. S2CID 145275606.
- Cott, Nancy F. (1972). Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women.ed.and with an Introd.by N.F.cott. E. P. Dutton.
- Cott, Nancy F. (Autumn 1976). "Eighteenth-century Family and Social Life Revealed in Massachusetts Divorce Records". Journal of Social History. 10 (1). Oxford University Press: 20–43. JSTOR 3786419.
- Cott, Nancy F. (1977). The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780–1835. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07298-3.
- Cott, Nancy F.; Pleck, E.H., eds. (1980). A Heritage of Her Own: Towards a New Social History of American Women. Touchstone.
- Cott, Nancy F. (1987). The Grounding of Modern Feminism. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-04228-3.
- Mitchell, Juliet; Cott, Nancy F. (1989). What is Feminism?. Basil Blackwell.
- Cott, Nancy F. (1991). A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard through Her Letters.
- Cott, Nancy F. (1995). The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States: The limits of independence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508829-8.
- Deutsch, Sarah Jane (1998). Cott, Nancy F. (ed.). From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women 1920–1940. Topeka Bindery. ISBN 0613078284.
- Cott, Nancy F. (2000). Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02988-0.
- Cott, Nancy F. (2000). No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-4223-5254-0.
- Harness, Cheryl; Cott, Nancy F. (2001). Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women. Collins. ISBN 0688170188.
- Cott, Nancy F. (2006). Love, Barbara J. (ed.). Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975. (Introduction). University of Illinois Press. ISBN 025203189X.
- Cott, Nancy F. (January 1, 2011). "No Objections: What history tells us about remaking marriage". Boston Review. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- Cott, Nancy F. (February 2013). "Revisiting the Transatlantic 1920s: Vincent Sheean vs. Malcolm Cowley". American Historical Review. 118: 46–75. .
References
Citations
- ^ a b Cott, Nancy F., Online Encyclopedia.
- ^ a b c d e Cott named to Sterling Chair in History.
- ^ a b 12 Years Leading the Schlesinger Library.
- ^ Wickersham 2008.
- ^ a b Nancy F. Cott, Speakers, Yale.
- ^ a b People: Nancy F. Cott, Harvard History.
- ^ Nancy F. Cott, OAH.
- ^ Sheler 2003.
- ^ a b Merrigan 2011, p. 1.
Sources
- "12 Years Leading the Schlesinger Library". Radcliffe Magazine. 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
- "Cott named to Sterling Chair in History, American Studies". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. 29 (29). May 4, 2001. Archived from the original on February 24, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
- Merrigan, Tara W. (November 3, 2011). "Profile: Nancy F. Cott". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- "Nancy F. Cott". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- "Conference speakers: Nancy F. Cott". Yale University. 2009. Archived from the original on December 27, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- "People: Nancy F. Cott". The President and Fellows of Harvard College. 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
- Sheler, Jeff (August 22, 2003). "Same-Sex Marriage". Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. WNET. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
- Wickersham, Joan (February 1, 2008). "Women's Stories: Why the Schlesinger Library Matters". Radcliffe Quarterly. Retrieved September 2, 2014.