Women's Studies Department Faculty

DEBORAH VALENZE

Professor of History

Research and Teaching Interests:

Publications:

Books

The Social Life of Money in the English Past, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

The First Industrial Woman, Oxford University Press, 1995.

Prophetic Sons and Daughters:  Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England, Princeton University Press, 1985.

Journal articles

“Is Marxism Still a Useful Tool of Analysis for the History of British Women?” in Contentions:  Debates in Society, Culture, and Science, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Spring 1995); also reprinted in Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality, ed. Nikki R. Keddie, (New York University Press, 1996), pp. 181-92.

“The Art of Women and the Business of Men: Women's Work and the Dairy Industry, c. 1740-1840,” Past and Present 130 (February, 1991), pp. 142-69; reprinted in Mary A. Yeager, ed., Women in Business, 3 vols. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999).

“Mutuality and Marginality:  Liberal Moral Theory and Women in Nineteenth-Century England,” (with Ruth L. Smith), Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, (Winter, 1988), pp. 277-98.

“Prophecy and Popular Literature in Eighteenth-century England,” Journal of Ecclesi­astical History 29 (1978), pp. 75‑92.

Contributions to Books and Other Works

“Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750-1914,” in A Companion to Gender History, ed. Teresa A. Meade and Merry Wiesner- Hanks (Oxford:  Blackwell, 2004), pp.  459-476.

“Dairy Farming” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Oxford University Press, 2003), 2: 62-5.

“Custom, Charity, and Humanity:  Attitudes towards the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England,” in Revival and Religion:  Essays presented to John Walsh (Hambledon Press, 1993), pp.  59-78.

“Cottage Religion and the Politics of Survival,” Equal or Different?  Women's Politics in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Jane Rendall, Blackwell, 1987, pp. 31-56.

“Pilgrims and Progress in Nineteenth-century England,” Culture, Ideology and Politics: Essays in Honour of Eric Hobsbawm, ed. Raphael Samuel and Gareth Stedman Jones, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983, pp. 113‑26.

Women's Studies Teaching:

European Women in the Age of Revolution

Women, Class and Culture in European History