Background
Sklar, Kathryn Kish was born on December 26, 1939 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Daughter of William Edward and Elizabeth Sue (Rhodes) Kish.
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Part of a collection of 38 readings in American Women's History that deals with the experiences of women in the North American colonies and the United States - from the first English settlement through the 1980s.
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“A thoughtful, ingenious, speculative book, a pleasure to read and to reread. No one interested in the history of women and the family, and in Victorian civilization as a whole, can afford to miss it.” ―Journal of American History Although she is often remembered only as the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, there was a time in Catharine Beecher’s life when she was more widely known than any member of her eminent family. A pioneering teacher, a writer on moral and religious topics, and an avid publicist for women’s education, her name became a household word in the 1840s because of the enormous success of her Treatise on Domestic Economy. This comprehensive guide to all aspects of domestic self-management was part of her effort to create a female domain from which cultural power could be exercised. In the recent reassessment of the historical experience of women, the middle decades of the last century have emerged as a critical period: the movement for women’s rights was born, and the genteel cult of the lady and the encumbering customs of domesticity took hold. Present-day attitudes about the family and images of masculine and feminine roles are still strongly shaped by nineteenth-century ideas. Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity examines that era through the life of one of its major protagonists. It offers new insights into the shifting contours of the nineteenth-century female experience and is a signal contribution to the intellectual and social history of the period.
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Sklar, Kathryn Kish was born on December 26, 1939 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Daughter of William Edward and Elizabeth Sue (Rhodes) Kish.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Radcliffe College, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1969.
Assistant professor, lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969-1974;
associate professor of history, University of California at Los Angeles, 1974-1981;
professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981-1988;
Chairman of Commission to administer program in women's studies College Letters andSci., University of California at Los Angeles, 1974-1981;
Distinguished Professor history, State University of New York, Binghamton, since 1988. Pulitzer juror in history, 1976. Fellow Newberry Library.
Family and Community History Seminar, 1973. Active California Council for Humanities, 1981-1985, New York Council for Humanities, since 1992.
(Part of a collection of 38 readings in American Women's H...)
( “A thoughtful, ingenious, speculative book, a pleasure ...)
Member American History Association (chairman commission on women historians 1980-1983, vice president Pacific Coast branch 1986-1987, president 1987-1988), Organisation American Historians (Executive Board 1983-1986, Merle Curti award committee 1978-1979, lecturer since 1982), American Studies Association (county member-at-large 1978-1980), Berkshire Conference Women Historians, American Antiquarian Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Robert A. Sklar, 1958 (divorced 1978). Children: Leonard Scott, Susan Rebecca Sklar Friedman. Married Thomas L. Dublin, April 30, 1988.