Linda Gordon

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
108 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Linda Gordon is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and History. According to data from OpenAlex, Linda Gordon has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 15 papers in History. Recurrent topics in Linda Gordon's work include Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (13 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (10 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (10 papers). Linda Gordon is often cited by papers focused on Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (13 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (10 papers) and Race, History, and American Society (10 papers). Linda Gordon collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Linda Gordon's co-authors include Nancy Fraser, Jill Quadagno, Wini Breines, Diana Gittins, J. Stanley Lemons, Joan Wallach Scott, Sara M. Evans, Dorothy E. Roberts, Rosalyn Baxandall and Sylvia D. Hoffert and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, International Journal of Cancer and Journal of Marriage and the Family.

In The Last Decade

Linda Gordon

97 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State

1994 636 citations Nancy Fraser, Linda Gordon Signs profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Linda Gordon United States	26	1.7k	844	838	579	509	108	3.5k
Michael B. Katz United States	31	2.3k 1.3×	457 0.5×	903 1.1×	733 1.3×	324 0.6×	176	4.7k
Chas Critcher United Kingdom	20	4.0k 2.3×	707 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	440 0.8×	168 0.3×	40	5.6k
Verta Taylor United States	28	2.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.4×	871 1.0×	205 0.4×	277 0.5×	64	3.9k
François Ewald France	23	2.8k 1.6×	488 0.6×	1.2k 1.4×	479 0.8×	299 0.6×	72	5.1k
Margaret R. Somers United States	17	2.8k 1.6×	293 0.3×	1.4k 1.6×	346 0.6×	202 0.4×	35	4.5k
Joan Wallach Scott United States	31	3.3k 1.9×	1.7k 2.0×	1.3k 1.5×	235 0.4×	1.1k 2.2×	173	5.8k
Evelyn Nakano Glenn United States	24	2.2k 1.3×	755 0.9×	416 0.5×	619 1.1×	73 0.1×	38	3.3k
Dominick LaCapra United States	26	3.1k 1.8×	409 0.5×	955 1.1×	242 0.4×	785 1.5×	89	6.4k
Richard Jenkins United Kingdom	27	3.3k 1.9×	433 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	460 0.8×	139 0.3×	73	5.3k
Ron Eyerman Sweden	28	2.7k 1.5×	284 0.3×	829 1.0×	225 0.4×	213 0.4×	71	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Linda Gordon

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gordon, Linda. (2014). Gerda Lerner: Leftist and Feminist. Journal of women's history. 26(1). 31–36.

Gordon, Linda. (2013). Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. 10(2). 107–112. 9 indexed citations

Gordon, Linda. (2008). Translating our bodies, ourselves. 286(23). 36–38.

Gordon, Linda. (2008). Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Hispanic American Historical Review. 88(2). 342–343. 2 indexed citations

Gordon, Linda, et al.. (2006). Impounded : Dorothea Lange and the censored images of Japanese American internment. W.W. Norton eBooks. 11 indexed citations

Gordon, Linda. (1997). Race, gender, and painful transformations in the field of American history. The chronicle of higher education. 43(44). 2 indexed citations

Faue, Elizabeth & Linda Gordon. (1997). Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare 1890- 1935.. The American Historical Review. 102(2). 532–532. 41 indexed citations

Roberts, Dorothy E., Linda Gordon, & Jill Quadagno. (1995). Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 24(1). 1–1. 120 indexed citations

Fraser, Nancy & Linda Gordon. (1994). “Dependency” Demystified: Inscriptions of Power in a Keyword of the Welfare State. Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society. 1(1). 4–31. 138 indexed citations

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Chervonsky, Alexander V., Linda Gordon, & Andrea J. Sant. (1994). A segment of the MHC class II β chain plays a critical role in targeting class II molecules to the endocytic pathway. International Immunology. 6(7). 973–982. 47 indexed citations

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Gordon, Linda. (1992). Social Insurance and Public Assistance: The Influence of Gender in Welfare Thought in the United States, 1890–1935. The American Historical Review. 97(1). 19–54. 3 indexed citations

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Gordon, Linda. (1990). The Welfare State: Towards a Socialist-Feminist Perspective. Socialist register. 26(26). 9 indexed citations

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Gordon, Linda. (1988). The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Notes from American History. Feminist Review. 56–56. 1 indexed citations

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Gordon, Linda. (1987). Review Essay: Nazi Feminists?¹. Feminist Review. 27(1). 97–105.

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Gordon, Linda & Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. (1986). Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. Journal of American History. 73(2). 477–477. 5 indexed citations

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Gordon, Linda & Lois W. Banner. (1980). Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights. Journal of American History. 67(3). 704–704. 1 indexed citations

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Gordon, Linda, et al.. (1978). Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. Science & Society. 42(3). 16 indexed citations

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Baxandall, Rosalyn, Linda Gordon, & Susan M. Reverby. (1976). America's working women. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 17 indexed citations

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Baxandall, Rosalyn, Linda Gordon, & Susan M. Reverby. (1976). Boston Working Women Protest, 1869. Signs. 1(3, Part 1). 803–808. 1 indexed citations

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Gordon, Linda, et al.. (1972). The Social Development of the Working Class of the USSR. 11(3). 236–268.

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