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Politicizing Women’s History, Engendering Policy History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2009

Eileen Boris
Eileen Boris*
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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Forum on The Work of Jane Sherron De Hart
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 431 - 438
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Copyright © Donald Critchlow and Cambridge University Press 2009

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1. A classic display of such anxieties is Alchon, Guy, “Policy History and the Sublime Immodesty of the Middle Age Professor,” Journal of Policy History 9 (1997): 358–74.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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5. Two classic texts here are Koven, Seth and Michel, Sonya, eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (New York, 1993)Google Scholar, and Skocpol, Theda, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge, Mass., 1992)Google Scholar. For a summary, see Boris, Eileen, “On the Importance of Naming: Gender, Race, and the Writing of Policy History,” Journal of Policy History 17 (2005): 75–78.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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