Jan Lewis

An emotional history of the United States

Emotions lie at our very core as human beings. How we process and grapple with our emotions, how and what we emote, and how we respond to the emotions of others, constitute the essence of our social universe. In a very real sense, we exist only through the prism of our emotions. And yet the profound effect of human emotion on history, politics, religion, and culture, remains underexamined. While the influence of emotion in such realms as American foreign policy has been well-documented, other emotional aspects of American history have escaped notice. What role, for instance, does emotion have in the practice of African American religion? How do shame and self- hatred influence American conceptions of identity? How does our emotional life change as we age? To what degree is American consumerism driven by basic human emotion? With this landmark anthology, historians Peter N. Stearns and Jan Lewis provide a road map of the American emotional landscape. From the emotional world of working-class Massachusetts to the prayers of evangelical and pentecostal women and the gendered nature of black rage, these essays provide a multicultural snapshot of the unique nature, and evolution, of American emotions.

A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson. By Byron W. Woodson Sr. (Westport: Praeger, 2001. xviii, 271 pp.

Introduction The Fate of Sally Hemings Monticello James T. Callender, With the Hammer of Truth Tom is Banished Freedom Secured The Rights of All The Color Line Harvesting Strands of the Past The Third Heart: The Brilliance of Dr. Fawn Brodie Minnie S. Woodson Strikes Genealogical Gold Search for Truth? Stop and Look Both Ways Calling All Cousins Conclusion Appendixes Index

24.95, ISBN 0-275-97174-0.)

Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) Ruth H. Bloch, Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003) Barbara Taylor entitles her new book Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination . The imagination in question is Wollstonecrafts, but, like Wollstonecraft, Taylor is interested in the imagination more generally, both the problems that the imagination gets women into and the ways in which the feminist imagination can get women out of those problems and help them imagine a more just and equitable future. Ruth H. Blochs aim in Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800 , the newly published collection of her essays, is somewhat more modest. Although her chief objective is to analyze the transformation in American views about women, gender, the family, and religion in the era of the American Revolution, she also offers case studies in the use of a culturalist approach to feminist history. Although there are important differences in approach and subject matter between these two books, their similarities and areas of overlap—not the least of which is that their authors are two of the best feminist intellectual historians at work today—make it instructive to review them together.

THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION

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