Abstract | This special issue of the fifteenth volume of the Journal of Women's History explores the distinction between the public and private spheres. Specifically, the articles in this issue ask the question: Are the terms "public" and "private" still useful? The contributors address this question from the perspectives of the fields of British gender history, Brazilian women's history, dress studies, Middle Eastern women's history, and more. This issue includes the following articles:
- Leonore Davidoff, "Gender and the "Great Divide": Public and Private in British Gender History", pp. 11-27.
- Sandra Lauderdale Graham, "Making the Private Public: A Brazilian Perspective", pp. 28-42..
- Carole Turbin, "Refashioning the Concept of Public/Private: Lessons from Dress Studies", pp. 43-51..
- Elizabeth Thompson, "Public and Private in Middle Eastern Women's History", pp. 52-69..
- Saskia Wieringa, "The Birth of the New Order State in Indonesia: Sexual Politics and Nationalism", pp. 70-91.
- Sarah Mercer Judson, ""Leisure is a Foe to Any Man:" The Pleasures and Dangers of Atlanta during World War I", pp. 92-115.
- Theresa Ann Smith, "Writing out of the Margins: Women, Translation, and the Spanish Enlightenment", pp. 116-143.
- Leila J. Rupp, "The Future of Women's History", page 144.
- Nancy F. Cott, Gerda Lerner, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Ellen Carol DuBois, Nancy A. Hewitt "Considering the State of U.S. Women's History", pp. 145-163.
- Mari Yoshihara, "Tackling the Contested Categories: Culture, Race, and Nation in American Women's History", pp. 164-166.
- Kate Haulman, "Room in Back: Before and Beyond the Nation in Women's and Gender History", pp. 167-171.
- Penny Messinger, "Interdisciplinarity and Institutional Change", pp. 172-174.
- Renee M. Sentilles, "Catching it All on the Web: Crafting Cohesive American Women's History in the Age of the Internet", pp. 175-177.
- Stephanie Gilmore, "Regenerating Women's History", pp. 178-182.
- < Madame d' Hericourt, Paula B. Doress-Worters, Jane Pincus, Mei-Mei Akwai Ellerman, Ingrid Kisliuk, Erica Harth, Allen J. Worters, Karen M. Offen, "Madame Rose: A Life of Ernestine L. Rose as told to Jenny P. d'Hericourt", pp. 183-201.
- Pippa Holloway, "Regulation and the Nation: Comparative Perspectives on Prostitution and Public Policy", pp. 202-211.
- Paisley Jane Harris, "Gatekeeping and Remaking: The Politics of Respectability in African American Women's History and Black Feminism", pp. 212-220.
- Allison L. Sneider, "Religion and Biography: Re-visioning Feminism in the Gilded Age", pp. 221-226.
- Robin Judd, "Religion, Agency, and Power in Jewish Gender Studies", pp. 227-234.
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