Nancy F. Cott

Beyond Roles, Beyond Spheres: Thinking about Gender in the Early Republic

This discussion of issues relating to the historical study of gender was presented as a symposium on December 4, i987, at the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Pew Memorial Trust. Michael Zuckerman of the University of Pennsylvania organized the panel. The text has been edited and revised for publication; several comments or questions from the floor have been omitted; footnotes have been added. Linda K. Kerber, who chaired the panel, has supplied a new conclusion. The editors hope that Forum will continue to attract collective contributions on topics of general and timely interest.

Sexuality and sexual behavior

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

Intercultural and interracial relations

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

Feminist struggles for sex equality

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

Women and war

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

Working on the Land

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.