Sex and Class in Women's History

by Judith Newton, Mary P. Ryan

This volume, which focuses on women in nineteenth-century Britain and America and includes work by scholars in both countries, takes its place in a long history of Anglo-American debate. The collection adopts what Joan Kelly . . . calls 'the doubled vision of feminist theory,' the view that it is the simultaneous operation of relations of class and of sex/gender that perpetuate both patriarchy and capitalism. . . . Many of these articles had their origin at an international conference in women's history at which the theoretical and political agendas of feminist historians were discussed with a vigour and urgency possible only where scholarship is infused with social aims. Both the vigour and the urgency can be clearly felt in the essays collected here."

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Judith Newton is Professor Emerita in Women and Gender Studies at U.C. Davis. While at U.C. Davis she directed the Women and Gender Studies program and the Consortium for Women and Research.

Her food memoir, TASTING HOME, received the following critical acclaim:

Starred Review (outstanding in its genre)in Publisher's Weekly Select.

First prize, autobiography, in the London Book Festival.

Silver,Women's Studies, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.

Bronze,memoir,Independent Publishers's Awards.


Finalist, autobiography, from Reader's Favorite.

Honorable mentions in the Hollywood and Southern California Book Festivals.

Finalist, autobiography, Reader’s Favorite.

"Approved" Status from Independent Reader

Finalist, memoir, National Indie Excellence Book Awards.

Honorable Mentions in San Francisco and New York Book Festivals


Two first place and four finalist awards in Womensmemoir.com Memoir Contests.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR



She is the author and co-editor of five works of nonfiction on nineteenth-century British women writers, feminist criticism, women’s history, and men’s movements.

Read an essay based on her memoir at Judith Newton Huffington Post.

Her most current work appears at Judith Newton Huffington Post.

in Seasons of Our Lives: Summer (womensmemoir.com 2014);

Roots: Where Food Comes From and Where It Takes Us:A BlogHer Anthology (2013);

in The Redwood Coast Review (Winter 2012) and poetalk (Summer, 2011); at http://tasting-home.com and at http://ipinionsyndicate.com/.

She is currently at work on a screenplay and lives in the East Bay of California where she tends her garden.