AHR roundtable biography as history

American Historical Review

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 579-586

  Banner, Lois W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 70249151109     PISSN: 00028762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.114.3.579     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Gerda Lerner, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels against Slavery (New York, 1967)
2. revised and expanded as The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and Abolition (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2004);
3. Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (New Haven, Conn., 1973);
4. Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (New Haven, Conn., 1995);
5. Lois W. Banner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights (Boston, 1980).
6. Joan W. Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American Historical Review 91, no. 5 (December 1986): 1053-1075;
7. Judith Bennett, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (Philadelphia, 2006), 24;
8. Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge, Mass., 1983);
9. Davis, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives (Cambridge, Mass., 1995);
10. Gerda Lerner, "U.S. Women's History: Past, Present, and Future," Journal of Women's History 16, no. 4 (2004): 10-27;
11. Joan W. Scott, "Unanswered Questions," American Historical Review 113, no. 5 (December 2008): 1422.
12. See Steve Weinberg, "Biography: The Bastard Child of Academe," Chronicle of Higher Education 54 (May 9, 2008): 1-5.
13. Clifford Geertz, "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture," in Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (New York, 1973), 3-30.
14. Laura Marcus, "The Newness of the 'New Biography': Biographical Theory and Practice in the Early Twentieth Century," in Peter France and William St. Clair, eds., Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography (New York, 2002), 193-218;
15. Fawn M. Brodie, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate Biography (New York, 1974).
16. Jo Burr Margadant, ed., The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France (Berkeley, Calif., 2000), 7.
17. See my In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality (New York, 1992).
18. Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928; repr., New York, 1956), 309.
19. The classic text on "performativity" is Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York, 1990).
20. M. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Austin, Tex., 1988);
21. Margadant, The New Biography, 7.
22. Caroline Weber, What Marie Antoinette Wore to the French Revolution (New York, 2006);
23. Mary D. Sheriff, "The Portrait of the Queen," in Dena Goodman, ed., Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen (New York, 2003), 45-71.
24. Elinor Accampo, Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (Baltimore, 2006);
25. John D'Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (New York, 2003);
26. Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Chapel Hill, N.C., 2003).
27. On the importance of biography to transnational history, see, for example, David Lambert and Alan Lester, eds., Colonial Lives across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2006).
28. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1922; repr., New York, 2002);
29. Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (1958; repr., Cambridge, Mass., 1996);
30. Phyllis Rose, Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages (New York, 1983).
31. Banner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton;
32. Lois W. Banner, Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle (New York, 2003);
33. Banner, Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women (New York, 1998).
34. Sarah Churchwell, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (New York, 2004).
35. Lois W. Banner, "The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Marilyn Monroe and Whiteness," Cinema Journal 47, no. 4 (Summer 2008): 4-29.
36. The men's studies approach, focused around the concepts of "masculinities" and "hegemonic masculinity," was generated by a conference at the University of Southern California in 1985, sponsored by the Program for the Study of Women and Men, now the Gender Studies Program. See Michael A. Messner and Michael S.Kimmel, Men's Lives (Boston, 2001).
37. For the "crisis in masculinity" in the 1950s, see K. A. Cuordileone, Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (New York, 2005).