The Women Founders
Sociology and Social Theory, 1830-1930, A Text with Readings
This book presents the often overlooked contributions of 15 extraordinary women sociologists of the 19th and early 20th centuries; their work, history and voices. Lengermann and Niebrugge-Brantley;s thorough text is designed to give students a complete picture of each woman;s contribution to sociology and social theory; they offer for each subject a biographical background, a thematic analysis of the social theory, and selections from the woman;s own writings. The structure of the book allows instructors to craft their teaching around the text'by focusing each chapter on one specific sociologist, instructors are free to incorporate the text as they like, serving as either a supplement to sociology and women;s studies courses, or as a primary text.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Philosophy, Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Philosophy · Nonfiction
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- 978-0-0703-7169-9
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- English
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- OL9250222M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Philosophy, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
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- Which claim challenges one of your familiar assumptions?
- What remains unresolved—and is that uncertainty useful?
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