LOIS W. BANNER

EDUCATION:

Columbia University, 1965-70 Ph.D. 1970 (U.S. History)

Columbia University, 1960-62 M.A. 1962 (European History)

U.C.L.A., 1956-60 B.A. 1960 (History)

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women (Columbia University Press, 1998).

Prize Awarded: Independent Publishers 1999 Book Awards, best book in the category of Women's Issues

In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality: A History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992). Paperback edition, Vintage

Books, 1993. Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Barbara Ehrenreich), San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post Book World (Ursula LeGuin), etc., plus professional journals.

Chap. 6: "The Eroticized Young Male and Women's Response" rewritten and published as "The Fashionable Sex, 1100-1600: Men's Clothing and Its Meaning in Medieval and Early Modern Europe," History Today, April 1992.

Chap. 8, on menopause, reprinted in Linda K. Kerber and Jane DeHart Mathews, Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, 3d. ed., (New York: Oxford, 1995).

American Beauty (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983). Reviewed in New York Times Book Review (Carl Degler), New York Review of Books (Alison Lurie), Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education. Article on the author and book in Chronicle of Higher Education, People Magazine, all newspapers of Gannett Newspaper Chain. Interview on All Things Considered; many local tv and radio shows; plus reviews in professional journals. Paperback edition, University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights (Little, Brown, 1979). Still in print; widely used in classes.

Chap. 2 reprinted in Linda K. Kerber and Jane DeHart Mathews, Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, 1st and 2nd eds., (Oxford, 1982); chap. 3 reprinted in Charlotte Rike and Anthony Picchoni, Readings in American History, Vol. 1 (Ginn Press, 1985).

Women in Modern America: A Brief History (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974). Second Edition, revised by author, 1983. Chinese Edition, 1990. Third Edition, revised by author, 1994.

First women's studies book translated into Chinese and awarded prize by Chinese booksellers association for the best book on women translated into Chinese. Translated into Dutch and widely used in secondary schools in Holland. Has remained continuously in print and widely used in college classes for over twenty years.

A two-page description and summary included in Frank N. Magill, ed., Masterpieces of Women’s Literature (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 568-70. (Magill’s book contains summaries of "the greatest works of literature by women authors.")

Clio's Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women, ed. with Mary S. Hartman (New York: Harper & Row, 1974; New York: Octagon, 1976). A collection of edited papers from the first Berkshire Conference in Women’s History, conceived and organized by Banner and Hartman.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

Intertwined Lives: Intellect and Passion in the Lives of Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. (Book under contract, Alfred Knopf).

COLLABORATIVE WORK:

Manual for Teaching Gender Roles in Western Civilization, with Elinor Accampo and Gloria Orenstein (USC, 1985).

ARTICLES:

"The Irony of Memory: Finding a Los(t) Angeles," Pacific Historical Review, spring, 1994. (Presidential Address, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association).

"Autobiography and Biography: Intermixing the Genres," a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, fall, 1993.

"The Coming of Age: Women in History and the History Profession," Conference Group in Women's History Newsletter, June 1990.

"The Meaning of Menopause: Aging and Its Twentieth-Century Contexts," Working Papers, Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall 1989.

"Margaret Mead, Men's Studies, and Women's Scholars," American Studies Association Newsletter, Spring 1988.

"Women's Studies and Men's Studies: A New Approach," International Journal of Women's Studies, IX (Spring 1986): 141-144.

"United States Women's History: Recent Theory and Practice," Trends in History, IV (Fall 1985): 93-121.

"The American Woman from 1900 to the First World War: A Profile," in Thomas Frazier, ed., The Underside of American History, vol. 2 (3d. ed.; New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974). Reprinted in Virginia Lee Lussier and Joyce Jennings Walstedt, eds., Women's Lives: Perspectives on Progress and Change (Newark, Del.: University of Delaware, 1977).

"Religious Benevolence as Social Control: A Critique of an Interpretation," Journal of American History, LX (June 1973): 23-41. Reprinted in Eward Pessen, ed., The Many- Sided Jacksonian Era: New Interpretations (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1977), and in John F. Wilson and John M. Mulder, eds., Religion in American History: Essays in Interpretation (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1977). (From Dissertation)

"Why Women Have Not Been Great Chefs," South Atlantic Quarterly, LXII (Spring 1973): 198-212.

"Presbyterians and Voluntarism in the Early Republic," Journal of Presbyterian History, L (Fall 1972): 283-99. (From Dissertation)

"Religion and Reform in the Early Republic: The Role of Youth," American Quarterly, XXIII (Dec. 1971): 677-95. (From Dissertation)

"On Writing Women's History," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, II (Autumn 1971), 347-58. Reprinted in Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg, eds., The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays (New York: Harper and Row, 1973).

COMMISSIONED ARTICLES:

"The Impact of Feminism on History, Literature, Art History, and Science," in Jane R. Glaser and Artemis A. Zenetou, eds., Gender Perspectives: Essays on Women in Museums (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993).

"The Revolution: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, editor," pamphlet, for The New-York Historical Society series on Makers of Change: Documents of American History, Sept., 1992.

"Dress," Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter Stearns (New York: Garland, 1994).

"Fashion," The Readers' Companion to American History, ed. Eric Foner and John Garraty, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991).

"A Reply to 'Culture et Pouvoir' from the Perspective of United States Women's History," Journal of Women's History, l (May 1989).

Forward, "Personal Lives and Professional Careers: The Uneasy Balance," Published Report, Women's Committee, American Studies Association, February 1989.

"Men's Studies: A New Feminist Approach?" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14 (Spring, 1989): 703-08.

"Act One: Women and Reform in Antebellum America," Wilson Quarterly, Autumn, 1986.

"Feminism," Encyclopedia of American Political History, ed. Jack P. Greene (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985).

"The Emergence of Women," National Endowment for the Humanities journal, Humanities, Winter, 1983.

"Clara Bow," Notable American Women, ed. Barbara Sicherman (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1980).

"Theresa Holburn," Dictionary of American Biography, ed. John A. Garraty (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons).

"Harriet Hubbard Ayer," Guide to American Writers, ed. Lina Mainiero (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1979).

Guest Editor, Feminist Studies, Fall 1973.

REPORTS:

"The National Mainstreaming Movement." A report on the success of the women's studies curriculum transformation movement, undertaken at the request of the Ford Foundation and funded by the Ford Foundation. February 1985.

"Women's Studies: A Bibliography, 1990." Included in the United States Information Agency bibliography in American Studies, widely distributed abroad.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Numerous book reviews have appeared in the following scholarly and popular journals: American Historical Review; American Studies; American Quarterly; Journal of American History; Reviews in American History; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Journal of Social History; William and Mary Quarterly; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Bulletin of the History of Medicine; Labor History; Journal of Southern History; The Historian; National Women's Studies Association Journal; Business History Review; Presidential Quarterly; Pacific Historical Review; South Atlantic Quarterly; Reviews in Sociology; Journal of the Connecticut Historical Society; Journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Society; Philadelphia Inquirer; Science.

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

Journal of Women's History, 1989-

American Studies 1986-88.

American Anthology, KCET Television, Los Angeles, 1987-89.

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

Humanities Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation 1978-79

Fellow, Radcliffe Institute 1974-75

Phi Beta Kappa 1960

University of Southern California

Innovative Teaching Award 1985-86

Innovative Research Award 1988-89

Associates Award for Creativity

in Research and Scholarship (award

given to two scholars in the university,

among a faculty of 4,000) 1988

Phi Kappa Phi, Faculty Excellence 1990

James Irvine Foundation Curriculum

Enrichment Grant 1993

Raubenheimer Award for Excellence

in teaching, research, and

service, College of Letters,

Arts, and Sciences (award given each

year to the most outstanding faculty

member in the College) 1996

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Professor, University of Southern California Fall, 1983-

(History and the Program for the Study of

Women and Men in Society)

Adjunct Professor, Josai University, Tokyo, 1996-present

Japan

Director, National Endowment for the Humani-

ties Summer Seminar for College Teachers,

USC: "Women and Men in United States History:

The New Gender Scholarship" Summer, 1992

Director, National Endowment for the Humani- Summer, 1984

ties Summer Seminar for College Teachers,

George Washington University, "Men, Women,

and Popular Culture"

William Robertson Coe Professor, Stanford Univ. Summer, 1983

Jane Watson Irwin Professor, Hamilton College Spring, 1983

Visiting Associate Professor, U.C.L.A. Summer, 1982

Visiting Associate Professor, George Washing- 1981-83

ton University (History and American Stud-

ies)

Co-planner and instructor, NEH summer insti- Summer, 1980

tute at Princeton University on integrating

the history of women into U.S. history survey

courses

Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of Mary- 1980-81

land, Baltimore County

National Endowment for the Humanities Pro- 1979-80

fessor, University of Scranton

Princeton University, Lecturer 1977-78

Douglass College, Rutgers University,

Assistant Professor 1971-77

Instructor, Douglass College 1967-71

Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut 1962-65

Teacher, grades 9-12

Commissioner, City of Santa Monica, Commission on the Status of Women, 1985-86

Chair, Department of History, Univ. of

So. Calif. 1994-98

Director, Institute for the Study of Women 1991-93

and Men, Univ. of So. Calif.

Chair, Program for the Study of Women 1989-92

and Men, Univ. of So. Calif.

Director, Women in Film, Pioneer Women Summer, 1989

Oral/Video History Project

Chair, American Studies Program Planning 1988-89

Committee, USC--Constructed an American

Studies Program

Vice-President and President, Pacific 1991-93

Coast Branch, American Historical

Association

President, American Studies Association 1986-88

(First woman president of ASA)

Member, Board of Directors, Commonwealth 1988-90

Center for American Studies, College of

William and Mary

Vice President, American Studies Association 1984-86

Member, Council, Pacific Coast Branch, 1987-90

American Historical Association

Chair, Lerner-Scott Prize Committee, for the 1997-98

best dissertation in women's history,

Organization of American Historians

Member, Program Committee, Western Association 1985-86 of Women Historians

Member, National Council, American Studies 1980-83

Association

Chair, Search Committee, Executive Director, 1982

American Studies Association

President, Conference Group in Women's 1979-81

History, American Historical Association

Director, Princeton Project on Women in the 1976-77

College Curriculum, Princeton University

(Conducted a nationwide survey on the uses of material on women in the college curriculum, funded by the Ford Foundation)

Program Committee, Organization of American 1975-76

Historians

Program Chair, Berkshire Conference of Women 1973

Historians (organized the first national Berkshire conference in women's history)

Acting Director, Women's Studies, Douglass 1972-73

College

Co-Director and Instructor, Hampton Institute, Summer, 1970

summer program in black history, for the Telluride Foundation, Cornell University

COURSES TAUGHT:

Introductory American History Survey; Introductory European History Survey; History of Women in the United States; Women in Comparative Cultures from the Greeks to the Present; History of the Family in the United States; Social History of the United States from 1607 to the Present; History of Black Americans; History of Radical Thought in America; Introduction to Gender Studies; Senior Internship Seminar (Women's Studies); Feminist Theory (undergraduate and graduate); Popular Culture in the United States; Gender Roles in United States History from 1920 to the Present;

Introduction to the Study of Women and Men in Society (Women's Studies); Gender and Sexuality in the History of the United States

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Chair and Comment, Session on Writing the National Body," American Studies Association Convention, Nov., 1998.

Lecture, "The Art of Biography: Secrets and Pitfalls," Claremont Graduate School, Feb., 1998.

Chair and Commentator, "Public Lives and Private Lives: Women on the Margin," American Studies Association Convention, Nov., 1997.

Lecture, Jing Lyman Lecture Series, "West Coast Feminism: Theory and Practice in Academe," Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, March, 1997.

Lecture, Davies Forum, on Physical Appearance in the United States, University of San Francisco, Feb., 1997.

Comment, session on Out of the Closet: Clothing, Class, Gender, and Masquerade, American Historical Association, Jan. 4, 1997.

Participant, in Conversation: Intersections between Women's History and Feminist Biography, American Studies Association Convention, Kansas City, Nov. 2, 1996.

Lecture, "Benedict and Mead: A Reading Through the Lens of Women's History," Kyoto Bunko University, July, 1996.

Lecture, "What's New in Women's Studies in the United States?" Pacific Rim Women's Studies Association, Tokyo, June 1996.

Lecture, "Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality," University of Bath, Bath, England, May 1996.

Lecture, "Menopause and Its Meaning," UCLA Extension Division, June 1995.

Chair and comment, session on fashion and history, American Studies Association Convention, Oct., 1994.

Chair, session on Some American Feminists, Western Association of Women Historians, Huntington Library, May 21, 1994.

Newcombe lecturer, Women's Studies, Tulane University, February, 1994.

Lecture, "Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality," Johns Hopkins Medical School, November 15, 1993.

Commentator, session on "The Male Body and Racial Formation: Surfers, Dreads, and Kings," American Studies Association Convention, Boston, November 7, 1993.

Lawrence Rockefeller Lecturer, University of Arkansas, October, 1993.

Presidential Address, "The Irony of Memory: Finding a Los(t) Angeles," American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Loyola-Marymount University, August 14, 1993.

Moderator, session on "Silent Parenting in the Academy," Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Vassar College, June 11, 1993.

Lecture, "A Tale of Two Women: An American Feminist Meets An Orthodox Muslim," UCLA Center for Feminist Research, Spring Lecture Series, June, 1993.

Chair and Comment, session on "Modernization and Memory: Twentieth Century Transformations in Agriculture and Industry," Western Association of Women Historians Convention, Lake Tahoe, May 1, 1993.

Lecture, "Image and Beauty," American Cultural Center, United States Information Service, Alexandria, Egypt, April 6, 1993.

Lecture, "Historical Perspectives on Menopause," UCLA Extention Series on Menopause, March, 1993.

Lecture, "Margaret Sanger: Feminist Crusader for Womens' Sexual Liberation," UCLA Extension Series, Jan. 30, 1993.

Chair and Commentator, session "Icons of American Womanhood,"

Convention, American Studies Association, Nov., 1992.

"Feminism and Fashion: Problems and Possibilities of Interpretation," Lecture, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, April, 1992.

"Physical Appearance and Aging in the United States in the Twentieth Century," Paper, Japan American Association Convention, Tokyo, Japan, April, 1992. (Member of United States delegation to the convention).

Chair and Commentator, session on women, middle age, and aging, Convention, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, August, 1991.

Guest Speaker, California State Univ. at Northridge, conference on new directions in women's history, April, 1991.

"The Meaning of Menopause in the Twentieth Century," Paper, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, June, 1990.

"The Menopausal Body," session on The Aging Body, paper, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Univ. of California, Irvine, April, 1990.

"Victorian Fashion in Dress and Physical Appearance," Lecture, conference on Victorianism, Galveston Historical Society, Galveston, Texas, April, 1990.

"The Impact of Feminism on History, Art History, Literature, and Science," Lecture, at seminar, "Gender Perspectives: The Impact of Women on Museums," Smithsonian Institution, March, 1990.

Visiting Professor, American Studies, Smith College, February, 1989. Lecture, "Constructing the Body: Fashion and Physical Appearance in American History," and seminar on the History of Menopause.

"The Coming of Age: Women in History and the Historical Profession," Keynote Speaker for Western Association of Women Historians, American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, Convention, August, 1989.

"American Studies in the 1980s: Another Renaissance?" UCLA Conference on Defining American Studies, April, 1989.

"The Meaning of Menopause: Aging and Its Historical Contexts in the Twentieth Century," Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, April 1989.

"Canonical Reviewing and Revisioning: Women's History; Women's Literature; Women's Studies; American Studies," University of Utah Humanities Center, February, 1989.

Commentator, session on Women and Popular Culture, American Studies Association Convention, October, 1988.

Commentator, session on Women in the Early Republic, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Convention, August, 1988.

Commentator, session on Women and the Professions, Western Association of Women Historians, June, 1988.

"Margaret Mead, Men's Studies, and Women Scholars," Keynote Address, Women's Breakfast, American Studies Association Convention, November, 1987.

Keynote Speaker, Wheaton College, Conference on "Coeducation, Curriculum and Teaching: Balancing the Change," November, 1987.

"Finding Time: Personal/Professional Conflicts of Women Historians," Survey Research Project of Committee on Women, American Studies Association. Findings delivered as part of group, American Studies Association Convention, November, 1987; Organization of American Historians Convention, March, 1988.

"The Perils of Penelope: Relationships Between Aging Women and Younger Men in the European and American Past and Present," Paper, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Wellesley College, June, 1987.

Chair, Session on Images of Blacks in American History, Organization of American Historians, Philadelphia, April, 1987.

"Men's Studies," Paper, Lecture Series on New Directions in the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, January, 1987.

"Women's Studies and American Studies," Lecture, Scripps College, March, 1987.

"Women and Fashion in American History," Lecture Series, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, March, 1987.

Paper, "Margaret Mead and Men's Studies," Western Association of Women Historians Convention, May, 1986.

Keynote Address, Asian American Studies Association Convention, Taiwan, April, 1986.

Paper, "Women's Studies and Men's Studies: A New Interdisciplinary Approach," Department of Sociology Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, March, 1986.

Chair, session on American culture in the 1950s, American Studies Association Convention, October, 1985.

Paper, "Women's Studies and American Studies," American Studies Association Convention, San Diego, October, 1985.

Lecture and workshop presentations on integrating gender into the curriculum, St. Joseph's College, Minnesota, October, 1985.

Paper, "Women's Studies and American Culture," Irvine Social History Conference, University of California, Irvine, April, 1985.

Lecture presentations on integrating women's history into the curriculum, University of Texas at El Paso, January, 1984.

"Women's History and Women's Studies," Huntington Library Women's Studies Series, October, 1984.

Phebe Estelle Spaulding Lecturer in Women's Studies, Pomona College, April, 1984.

Paper, "The Study of Women and Men in Society," National Women's Studies Association Convention, June, 1984.

Lecture presentations of American Beauty and on integrating women's history into the curriculum given at Gustavus Adolphus College, Case Western Reserve University, and Stanford University, Fall, 1983.

Commentator, session on the movies, Organization of American Historians Convention, April, 1983.

Lecture presentations of American Beauty and on integrating women's history into the curriculum given at Towsen State College and Old Dominion University, Spring, 1983.

Lecture presentations of American Beauty given at Trinity College, Hartford; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Colgate University; and College of St. Elisabeth, St. Cloud, Minnesota, Spring, 1982.

Chair, session on new direction in women's history, American Historical Association Convention, 1980.

"An Introduction to Women's History," paper, Pensacola, Florida, for Association of State and Local History conference, January, 1981.

Keynote speaker, Middle Atlantic American Culture Association conference, St. Joseph's University, November, 1980.

Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University, November, 1980.

"Popular Culture and Sexuality," paper, American Studies Association Convention, 1989.

"There She Is American Women and the American Beauty Contest, 1856-1921," paper, Berkshire Historical Conference, 1978.

"Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Woman's Bible: Women, Reform, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century America," Paper, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1978.

Lecture, "Women in Modern America," Regents Television Network, Kansas State University, 1977.

"Women in the College Curriculum," paper, National Women's Studies Association Convention, 1974.

Commentator, session on religion and reform in early America, American Historical Association Convention, 1970.

Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations, Educational Testing Service, 1976-78.

Evaluator, Independent Fellows Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981.

Evaluator, Summer Stipend Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1982.

Evaluator, Rockefeller Humanities Fellowships, 1982.

Member, Wellesley College Board of Consultants in Women's Studies.

Evaluator, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, May 1987.

Evaluator, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, May 1993.

Evaluator, Division of Historic Preservation Grant Program, NEH, Sept., 1994.

Evaluator, Division of Summer Seminars for College Teachers, NEH, May 1998.