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Assistant ProfessorEducation:
- PhD Princeton University 2000
- MA Princeton University 1994
- BA Harvard-Radcliffe College University 1989
- Specialties:
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United States
19th and 20th Centuries Women Race Law Gender Sexuality Public Policy
- Research Interests:
Dr. Kornbluh teaches courses on Women and Gender
In The U.S. Since 1890, on Welfare And Public Policy In
The U.S. And Other Societies, and on the Law And
Society In America. Her articles on Women And The
Welfare State, On Social Protest And Racial Politics
Since 1965, have been published in the journals
Feminist Studies, Signs, Social Policy, Radical History
Review, and Black Labor History. Her current work
focuses on "A Right to Welfare? Poor Women,
Professionals, and Poverty Programs, 1935-1975"; a
portion of that work is included in Women's America
(edited by Linda Kerber and Jane DeHart). She has
held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
for research in Women's Studies, from the American
Bar Association for research in law and social science,
and from the New Your University Law School for
research in legal history. Recent Publications
- "Black Buying Power: Welfare Rights, Consumerism, and Northern Protest." Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980 (February,
2003).
- "Welfare Mothers: 'Maternalism,' 'Black Feminism,' and Welfare Rights." currently in revision stage
Journal of Women's History (2003).
- "A Human Right to Welfare? Social Protest Among Women Welfare Recipients After World War II." Also published in Women's America 4th ed.,
2000, pp. 523-531. My article was the first
ever published in this important textbook by
a scholar who had not yet received her Ph.D
Women's America 5th edition (forthcoming 2003).
- Leila Rupp, "Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement". Signs (Winter, 2001): 606-609.
- "Community Activism and Feminist Politics: Organizing Across Race, Class, and Gender". Signs (Winter, 2001): 606-609.
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