Making the Invisible Woman Visible

by Anne Firor Scott

Making the Invisible Woman Visible presents the pioneering women's historian Anne Firor Scott at her best, writing on women and their social, political, and cultural roles in American history. Scott focuses especially upon the centrality of education and voluntary organizations to the advancement of women over the past century and a half, presenting the progress of woman as subject and writer of history. The result is a revealing picture of personal development, of the historian at work, and of the problems encountered by women as they move further into a field of scholarship previously dominated by men.

416 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1984

About the author

Anne Firor Scott, a pioneer historian of American women, was W. K. Boyd Professor Emerita of History at Duke University. Scott joined Duke's history department in 1961 on a visiting appointment. Nineteen years later she was named William K. Boyd Professor of History and appointed chair of the department. Professor Scott was the first woman to chair the Duke history department, and was also the first professor at Duke to include women's scholarship in her teaching and research. She was educated in her home state at the University of Georgia, as well as at Northwestern University and Radcliffe College. In addition to her tenure at Duke, she taught at Haverford College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.