Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-363) and index.
Contents
The regendering of history, 1880-1935 -- From feminine refinement to masculine pursuit, 1880-1920 -- Social activism and interdisciplinarity in writing and teaching, 1910-1935 -- Perspectives from the professional, social, and geographic margins -- Women regionalists and intercultural brokers -- African American women's historical consciousness -- Constructing usable pasts -- Womanist consciousness and new Negro history -- Remembering organized feminism -- Establishing women's history as a field -- Creating a usable past for women -- Legacies for women' s history in the twenty-first century.