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"Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life among the Indians, Fletcher's popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886-87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881-82, remained unpublished in Fletcher's archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher depicts the humor and hardships of her field experiences as a middle-aged woman undertaking anthropological fieldwork alone, while showing genuine respect and compassion for Native ways and beliefs that was far ahead of her time. What emerges is a complex and fascinating picture of a woman questioning the cultural and gender expectations of nineteenth-century America while insightfully portraying rapidly changing reservation life. Fletcher's account of her early fieldwork is available here for the first time, accompanied by an essay by the editors that sheds light on Fletcher's place in the development of anthropology and the role of women in the discipline. "--

Women anthropologists --- Dakota Indians --- Omaha Indians --- Social life and customs. --- Fletcher, Alice C. --- Anthropologists, Women --- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. --- Anthropologists --- Women social scientists

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This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contrast, this volume draws long overdue attention to the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the new social knowledge. And it challenges the privileged position that academic--and mostly male--social science has been granted in traditional histories by showing how women produced and popularized new forms of social knowledge in such places as settlement houses and the Russell Sage Foundation. The book's varied perspectives, building on recent work in history and feminist theory, break from the traditional view of the social sciences as objective bodies of expert knowledge. Contributors examine new forms of social knowledge, rather, as discourses about gender relations and as methods of cultural critique. The book will create a new framework for understanding the development of both social science and the history of gender relations in the United States. The contributors are: Guy Alchon, Nancy Berlage, Desley Deacon, Mary Dietz, James Farr, Nancy Folbre, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Dorothy Ross, Helene Silverberg, and Kamala Visweswaran.

Sex role --- Social sciences --- Women social scientists --- Women --- History --- SCIENZE SOCIALI --- DONNE --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Storia. --- Addams, Jane. --- Babcock, Howard E. --- Breckinridge, Sophonisba. --- Bruere, Martha Bensley. --- Calkins, Mary Whiton. --- Christianity. --- Cox Stevenson, Matilda. --- Davis, Katharine Bement. --- Fletcher, Alice. --- Goldenweiser, Alexander. --- Hammond, Margaret. --- James, William. --- Jones, Nellie Kedzie. --- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. --- Kingsbury, Susan. --- Laboulaye, Edouard de. --- Leupp, Francis. --- Macfadden, Bernarr. --- National Municipal League. --- Native Americans. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich. --- Parsons, Elsie Clews. --- Pearson, Thomas. --- Platt Smith, Erminnie. --- Rossiter, Margaret. --- Spencer Herbert. --- Victorian gender system. --- academic freedom trials. --- anthropology. --- child labor. --- classes in the United States. --- domesticity. --- economics. --- evolutionary theory. --- family wage economy. --- feminism. --- higher education and women. --- home economics. --- manifest destiny. --- masculinity. --- maternalism and motherhood. --- political science. --- pragmatism. --- psychology. --- romanticism. --- settlement movement. --- social Darwinism. --- suffrage movement. --- trade union activity. --- van Kleeck, Eliza Mayer. --- women’s colleges.