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Hilda L. Smith
Born	1941 (1941)
Died	October 24, 2023 (aged 82)
Academic background
Education	Missouri State University University of Chicago
Academic work
Discipline	History, gender analysis
Institutions	University of Maryland, College Park University of Cincinnati

Hilda L. Smith (1941 – October 24, 2023) was an American historian who specialized in the gender analysis of political theory and intellectual history. She was a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati.

Life

Smith was born in 1941. She was an undergraduate at Missouri State University, trained as a high school teacher, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1975. Her dissertation was titled Feminism in Seventeenth-century England.

Smith was a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was a humanities administrator. In 1987, she joined the University of Cincinnati. She specialized in the gender analysis of political theory and intellectual history and the "political, philosophical, and scientific writings of early modern women.

Smith died on October 24, 2023.

Selected works

• Smith, Hilda L. (1982). Reason's Disciples: Seventeenth-century English Feminists. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-00912-9.
• Smith, Hilda L., ed. (1998). Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58509-5.
• Smith, Hilda L.; Carroll, Berenice A., eds. (2000). Women's Political & Social Thought: An Anthology. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33758-0.
• Smith, Hilda L. (2010). All Men and Both Sexes: Gender, Politics, and the False Universal in England, 1640-1832. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-04604-4.
• Smith, Hilda L.; Zook, Melinda S., eds. (2018). Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-77568-5.

References

Citations

1. ^ Haude, Sigrun; Zook, Melinda S. (February 5, 2024). "Hilda L. Smith (1941–2023)". American Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
2. ^ University of Cincinnati.
3. Smith 1982.
4. Reviews of Reason's Disciples:
   • Davies, Kathleen M. (1985). "Review". The English Historical Review. 100 (397): 893–894. doi:10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCVII.893. ISSN 0013-8266. JSTOR 572619.
   • Chaytor, Miranda (1986). "Review". Science & Society. 50 (4): 496–499. ISSN 0036-8237. JSTOR 40402983.
   • Delmar, Roasalind (1983). "Review of Feminism in Eighteenth Century England; Reason's Disciples: Seventeenth Century English Feminists". Feminist Review (14): 102–104. doi:10.2307/1394659. ISSN 0141-7789. JSTOR 1394659.
   • Stock-Morton, Phyllis (1988). "Review". The American Historical Review. 93 (1): 143–144. doi:10.2307/1865729. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1865729.
   • Bland, Sidney R. (1983). "Review". The History Teacher. 16 (3): 448–449. doi:10.2307/492967. ISSN 0018-2745. JSTOR 492967.
   • Messer-Davidow, Ellen (1983). "Review of Chaste, Silent, and Obedient: English Books for Women, 1475-1640; Reason's Disciples: Seventeenth-Century English Feminists; Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England". Signs. 9 (1): 141–146. doi:10.1086/494031. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3173670.
5. Reviews of Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition:
   • Chalus, Elaine (1999). "Review". The English Historical Review. 114 (458): 974–975. doi:10.1093/ehr/114.458.974. ISSN 0013-8266. JSTOR 580599.
   • Wright, Joanne H. (2000). "Review". Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique. 33 (4): 858–859. ISSN 0008-4239. JSTOR 3232681.
   • McDowell, Paula (1999). "Review". Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies. 31 (3): 464–466. doi:10.2307/4052977. ISSN 0095-1390. JSTOR 4052977.
   • Sampson, Margaret (1999). "Review". The Historical Journal. 42 (2): 587–589. ISSN 0018-246X. JSTOR 3021005.
   • Donawerth, Jane (1999). "Review". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 30 (4): 1066–1068. doi:10.2307/2544629. ISSN 0361-0160. JSTOR 2544629.
   • Clark, Anna (1999). "Gender and Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century". History Workshop Journal. 48 (48): 252–257. doi:10.1093/hwj/1999.48.252. ISSN 1363-3554. JSTOR 4289648.
   • Mazzucco-Than, Cecile (2001). "History in Context: Female Authors and the Genres in Which They Wrote". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 35 (1): 124–126. doi:10.1353/ecs.2001.0064. ISSN 0013-2586. JSTOR 30054134. S2CID 162349555.
   • Fideler, Paul A. (2002). "Varieties of Early Modern Political Culture". Journal of British Studies. 41 (2): 232–243. doi:10.1086/386261. ISSN 0021-9371. JSTOR 3070755. S2CID 232331450.
   • Perry, Ruth (2000). "Review". The American Historical Review. 105 (1): 276–278. doi:10.2307/2652568. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 2652568.

Bibliography

• Smith, Hilda L (1975). Feminism in seventeenth-century England (Ph.D. thesis). University of Chicago. OCLC 5802403.
• "Research Directory: Hilda Smith". University of Cincinnati. Retrieved 2022-04-22.

• Living people
• 20th-century American historians
• American women historians
• American academics of women's studies
• 21st-century American historians
• University of Chicago alumni
• University of Maryland, College Park faculty
• University of Cincinnati faculty
• 21st-century American women academics
• 21st-century American academics
• 20th-century American women academics
• 1941 births