{{short description|American historian|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Estelle B. Freedman''' (born 1947) is an American historian. She is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor Emerita in U.S. History at Stanford University<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stanford Department of History |url=http://history.stanford.edu/freedman_estelle |accessdate=2 February 2025 |archive-date=22 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722103220/http://history.stanford.edu/freedman_estelle |url-status=dead }}</ref> She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1969<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Coming of Age at Barnard, 1968 |journal=The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=209–222 |date=December 2008 |doi=10.1080/17541320802457152 |last1=Freedman |first1=Estelle B. |s2cid=143818455 }}</ref> and her Master of Arts (1972) and PhD (1976) in history from Columbia University. She has taught at Stanford University since 1976 and is a co-founder of the Program in Feminist Studies.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2001/june6/feministstudies-66.html |title=Feminist Studies Program turns 20: Graduates share history of struggles, gains |publisher=Stanford Report |date=6 June 2001 |first=Meredith |last=Alexander}}</ref> Her research has explored the history of women and social reform, including feminism and women's prison reform, as well as the history of sexuality, including the history of sexual violence.
== Honors and awards == Freedman is the recipient of four teaching awards at Stanford as well as the Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award for graduate mentorship from the American Historical Association<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.historians.org/prizes/awarded/RoelkerWinner.cfm |title=AHA Award Recipients: Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award |accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref> and the Millicent McIntosh Award for Feminism from Barnard College.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://alum.barnard.edu/s/1133/index.aspx?sid=1133&gid=1&pgid=306#carey |title=Milicent Carey Feminism Award |accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref> She has received numerous research fellowships, including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/17000-estelle-b-freedman |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |title=Estelle B. Freedman 2011 – US & Canada Competition Humanities – United States History |accessdate=11 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010000315/http://www.gf.org/fellows/17000-estelle-b-freedman |archive-date=10 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Stanford Humanities Center. Her first book, ''Their Sisters' Keepers'' received the Alice and Edith Hamilton Prize for best scholarly manuscript on women from the University of Michigan in 1978 and was published in 1981. She has won the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians three times: in 1982 for ''Victorian Women: A Documentary Account'' (shared), in 1997 for ''Maternal Justice,'' and in 2014 for ''Redefining Rape.''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wawh.org/awards/frances-richardson-keller-sierra-prize/ |title=Western Association of Women Historians Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize |accessdate=15 July 2014 |archive-date=4 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204043459/https://wawh.org/awards/frances-richardson-keller-sierra-prize/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Redefining Rape'' also won the 2014 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oah.org/programs/awards/darlene-clark-hine-award/darlene-clark-hine-award/ |title=Darlene Clark Hine Award Winners|website=oah.org|accessdate=1 April 2023}}</ref> and the 2014 Emily Toth Award (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pcaaca.org/awards/ |title=Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Awards |accessdate=15 July 2014}}</ref>
Her book ''My Desire for History'', coedited with John D'Emilio, received the 2013 John Boswell Prize from the Committee on LGBT History of the American Historical Association.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://clgbthistory.org/prizes/john-boswell-prize |title=John Boswell Prize |accessdate=11 August 2013 |archive-date=1 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801163931/http://clgbthistory.org/prizes/john-boswell-prize/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her earlier co-authored book with John D'Emilio, ''Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America'', was cited by Justice Anthony Kennedy in his 2003 opinion for ''Lawrence v. Texas'', with which the American Supreme Court overturned all remaining anti-sodomy laws.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hurewitz |first=D. |year=2004 |url=http://www.hhrjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2013/07/11-Hurewitz.pdf |title=Sexuality scholarship as a foundation for change: Lawrence v. Texas and the impact of the historians' brief |journal=Health and Human Rights |volume=7 |number=2 |pages=205–216 |doi=10.2307/4065355 |jstor=4065355 |access-date=2013-07-29 |archive-date=2015-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531185743/http://www.hhrjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2013/07/11-Hurewitz.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Justia.com |url=http://docs.justia.com/cases/supreme/539/558.pdf |title=Lawrence v. Texas |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925090328/http://docs.justia.com/cases/supreme/539/558.pdf |archivedate=2012-09-25 }}</ref>
== Works == * ''[http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=12633 Their Sisters' Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914042916/http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=12633 |date=2012-09-14 }}'' (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1981). {{ISBN|9780472080526}} * Editor (with Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson, and Kathleen M. Weston), ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130803080346/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo3619868.html The Lesbian Issue: Essays From Signs]'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985). {{ISBN|9780226261522}} * Associate editor (with Barbara C. Gelpi and Marilyn Yalom), ''Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France and the United States'', eds. Erna O. Hellerstein, Leslie P. Hume, and Karen Offen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981). {{ISBN|9780804710961}} * ''[http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo14770063.html Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America]'' (with John D'Emilio) (New York: Harper and Row, 1988; 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2012). {{ISBN|9780226923802}} * ''[http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3640931.html Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition]'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). {{ISBN|9780226261508}} * ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20050307035543/http://www.randomhouse.com/BB/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=034545054X No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women]'' (New York: Ballantine Books, 2002). {{ISBN|9780345450531}} * ''[http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-7602.html Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics: Essays by Estelle Freedman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220007/http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-7602.html |date=2016-03-03 }}'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). {{ISBN|9780807856949}} * ''[http://www.randomhouse.com/book/56020/the-essential-feminist-reader-/9780812974607/ The Essential Feminist Reader]'' (New York: The Modern Library, 2007). {{ISBN|9780812974607}} * Editor (with John D'Emilio) ''[http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1905 My Desire for History: Essays on Gay, Community, and Labor History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822234013/http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1905 |date=2016-08-22 }}'' by Allan Bérubé (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). {{ISBN|9780807871959}} * Foreword, with John D'Emilio, and co-consulting editor, ''[http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo13754854.html Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for the a History of Sexuality in America]'', ed. Thomas A. Foster (University of Chicago Press, 2012). {{ISBN|9780226257471}} * ''[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724846 Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation]'' (Harvard University Press, 2013). {{ISBN|9780674724846}}
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== External links == * [http://ebf.stanford.edu/ Freedman’s Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508224733/http://ebf.stanford.edu/ |date=2021-05-08 }} * [http://ntb.stanford.edu/ No Turning Back] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118080743/http://ntb.stanford.edu/ |date=2021-01-18 }} *[https://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/publications/freedman-estelle Estelle Freedman: An Oral History], Women's March Oral History Project, Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2017
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