Rebecca Jo Plant

Rebecca Jo Plant

Department of History

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive MC 0104

La Jolla , California , 92093-0104

rplant@ucsd.edu

(858)534-8920

Curriculum Vitae

Rebecca Jo Plant is an associate professor of history. Her work focuses on gender relations and the rise of a therapeutic culture in the twentieth-century U.S. She is especially interested in exploring how people in the past have constructed a sense of selfhood, and the ways in which historical forces have shaped emotional life and interpersonal relationships.

Publications

Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America, Chicago: University of Chicago Press in 2010.
"Debunking Mother Love: American Mothers and the Momism Critique in the Mid-Twentieth Century," in Raising Citizens in the "Century of the Child": The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective, ed. Dirk Schumann, New York: Berghahan Press, 2010.
William Menninger's Campaign to Reform American Psychoanalysis, 1946-1948," History of Psychiatry, 16:2 (2005): 181-202.
"The Veteran, His Wife, and Their Mothers: Prescriptions for Psychological Rehabilitation after World War II," in Tales of the Great American Victory: World War II in Politics and Poetics, eds. Diederik Oostdijk and Markha G. Valenta, Amsterdam: Vrije University Press, 2006, pp. 95-100.

Courses Taught

HILD 2A. History of the United States: The Nineteenth Century.
HILD 90. Documenting American Culture in the 1930s.
HITO 192. Women and the Law. Colonial Era to Reconstruction
HIUS 156. American Women/American Womanhood, Colonial Times to 1870.
HIUS 157. American Women/American Womanhood, 1870 to the present.
HIUS 173. Historical Perspectives on the Family and the Emotions.
HIUS 181. The Rise of a Therapeutic Culture.
HIGR 205.Feminist Historical Scholarship.
HIGR 265C. In Pursuit of the Good Life: Getting and Spending in Modern America.
HIGR 265c Gender Perspectives of Twentienth-Century U.S. History
CGS 104. Mothers and Motherhood: Transnational Perspectives.

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