{"id":31633,"date":"2022-06-03T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=31633"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:16:21","slug":"lillian-faderman-woman-the-american-history-of-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=31633","title":{"rendered":"Lillian Faderman, \u201cWoman: The American History of an Idea\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br><strong>\u201cExhaustively researched and finely written.\u201d\u2014Alexandra Jacobs, <em>New York Times<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br><strong>\u201cAn intelligently provocative, vital reading experience. . . . This highly readable, inclusive, and deeply researched book will appeal to scholars of women and gender studies as well as anyone seeking to understand the historical patterns that misogyny has etched across every era of American culture.\u201d\u2014<em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em>, starred review<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>What does it mean to be a \u201cwoman\u201d in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God\u2019s plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement.<br>\u00a0<br>This wide-ranging 400-year history chronicles conflicts, retreats, defeats, and hard-won victories in both the private and the public sectors and shines a light on the often-overlooked battles of enslaved women and women leaders in tribal nations. Noting that every attempt to cement a particular definition of \u201cwoman\u201d has been met with resistance, Faderman also shows that successful challenges to the status quo are often short-lived. As she underlines, the idea of womanhood in America continues to be contested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lillian Faderman<\/strong> is professor emerita at California State University, Fresno. Her books on the history of gender and sexuality have won numerous prizes, including seven Lambda Literary Awards, two Stonewall Book Awards, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. She lives in La Jolla, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn ambitious attempt to delineate nothing less than the changing state of being female in this country over the past four centuries. <em>Woman<\/em> is exhaustively researched and finely written.\u201d\u2014Alexandra Jacobs, <em>New York Times<\/em><br><br>\u201cLillian Faderman\u2019s is a book many of us have been waiting for, the first comprehensive history of American women to capture the rich discoveries that have been made over the last half century, juxtaposing the abstraction of \u2018woman\u2019 with the range, resilience, and resistance of real women.\u201d\u2014Ellen Carol DuBois, author of <em>Suffrage: Women\u2019s Long Battle for the Vote<\/em><br><br>\u201cA rewarding read. Pioneering scholar Lillian Faderman illuminates how concepts of female difference and inferiority stubbornly persist and captures the ongoing struggles of women to free themselves from the idea of \u2018woman.\u2019\u201d\u2014Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania<br><br>\u201cA sweeping history of conceptions of women by themselves and others told through fascinating stories that get the reader to turn the page.\u201d\u2014Claudia Goldin, author of <em>Career and Family: Women\u2019s Century-Long Journey toward Equity<\/em><br><br>\u201cA wide-ranging, deeply researched, and very well written survey of how the idea of woman has been deployed over more than three centuries of American history.\u201d\u2014Susan Ware, author of <em>Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote<\/em><br><br>\u201cWith dazzling scholarship and monumental vision Faderman has, with illuminating detail and persuasive argument, brilliantly woven a rich tapestry of how the American \u2018woman\u2019 has been created and re-created over centuries.\u201d\u2014Michael Bronski, author of <em>A Queer History of the United States<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Publication date: 10 May 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imprint: Yale University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dimensions: 600 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.co.uk\/display.asp?k=9780300249903\">https:\/\/yalebooks.co.uk\/display.asp?k=9780300249903<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Woman.jpg?fit=331%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54470,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54470","url_meta":{"origin":31633,"position":0},"title":"Women\u2019s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A New Transnational History","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"6. srpnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Selin \u00c7a\u011fatay (Author), M\u00e1ty\u00e1s Erd\u00e9lyi (Author), Alexandra Ghi\u021b (Author), Olga Gnydiuk (Author), Veronika Helfert (Author), Ivelina Masheva (Author), Zhanna Popova (Author), Jelena Te\u0161ija (Author), Eszter Varsa (Author), Susan Zimmermann (Author) Series: Work Around the World This collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women\u2019s labour activism in Eastern\u2026","rel":"","context":"U &quot;E-knjige&quot;","block_context":{"text":"E-knjige","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=19"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Activism-book.jpg?fit=652%2C442&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Activism-book.jpg?fit=652%2C442&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Activism-book.jpg?fit=652%2C442&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":54962,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54962","url_meta":{"origin":31633,"position":1},"title":"Branka Bogdan, &#8220;The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"13. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"From 1945 to 1989, the Yugoslav state connected its claims of progressive politics and gender equality to its support of free healthcare, sex education and contraception, and laws that supported reproductive choice. 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