Carroll smith rosenberg biography of christopher columbus book

Smith-Rosenberg is known for her scholarship in U. Smith-Rosenberg's article, "The Female World of Love and Ritual", has been described as creating "a template for how feminists could literally make history" Potter, She grew up near Yankee Stadium , in the Bronx. Her heritage included a Caribbean grandfather, two centuries of slave-holding ancestors, and "on both sides, Irish grandmothers who didn't speak to one another" Smith-Rosenberg, From to Smith-Rosenberg held a post-doctoral fellowship in psychiatry at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania , where she also taught.

In Sex, Marriage and Society: Birth Control and Family Planning in Nineteenth Century America, Charles Rosenberg and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, editors.

Smith-Rosenberg has described her scholarly career trajectory as "built around forty years of university teaching, scholarly friends around the world, and She said that the political feminism of the s led her to reshape the questions she asked and to push the boundaries of both the methods and the conceptual frameworks of traditional history Smith-Rosenberg, , p.

DuBois et al. According to Smith-Rosenberg, her early scholarship focused on problems of urban poverty in Victorian America and the ways in which an emerging bourgeois elite attempted to understand and contain them Smith-Rosenberg, , p. The book contained a study of the American Female Moral Reform Society, which she termed a "uniquely female institution" Smith-Rosenberg, , p.

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Suddenly, Smith-Rosenberg has recalled, "everywhere I looked, the private papers of ordinary women beckoned" Smith-Rosenberg, , p. It was presented at the second Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Melosh, , and published as the lead article in the first-ever issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Smith-Rosenberg went on to publish numerous articles addressing sexuality and gender relations in nineteenth-century America, many of which were collected in her second book, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America Discussing the collection in The New York Times Book Review , Elizabeth Janeway wrote that "few historians have used the stream of myth and history so productively"; the book, she noted, "suggests a restructuring of the way we see history by presenting the reactions of men and women to the shock of industrial upheaval, and the interplay between their variant visions".

The group brought together feminist scholars from the U. The planning group "believed we had a historical mandate to identify new domains, create new institutions, or try to carve out places for ourselves in areas that had previously excluded, devalued, and ignored us" Friedlander et al.