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Women

Bay, Mia, “In Search of Sally Hemings in the Post-dna Era,” Reviews in American History, 34 (Dec. 2006), 407–26.

Blumberg, Janice Rothschild, “Sophie Weil Browne: From Rabbi’s Wife to Clubwoman,” Southern Jewish History, 9 (2006), 1–33.

Boles, Janet K., and Katherine Scheurer, “Beyond Women, Children, and Families: Gender, Representation, and Public Funding for the Arts,” Social Science Quarterly, 88 (March 2007), 39–50.

Elias, Megan, “‘Model Mamas’: The Domestic Partnership of Home Economics Pioneers Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 15 (Jan. 2006), 65–88.

Irons, Kendra Weddle, “M. Madeline Southard (1877–1967) on ‘Ecclesial Suffrage,’” Methodist History, 45 (Oct. 2006), 16–30.

Knupfer, Anne Meis, “Turning ‘Western Girls’ into ‘Useful Women’: The Presidency of Julia Gulliver at Rockford College, 1902–1919,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Autumn 2006), 175–200.

Stockton, Elizabeth, “‘A Crusade against Duty’: Property, Self-Possession, and the Law in the Novels of Elizabeth Stoddard,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Sept. 2006), 413–38.

 

Altman, Julie B., “Higher Education for Women in an Age of Rising Standards: The Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1881–1916” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3213472.

Hart, Tanya, “Sexual, Cultural, and Civic Self-Representation among African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian Women in New York City, 1900–1930” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214217.

Holden, Teresa Blue, “‘Earnest Women Can Do Anything’: The Public Career of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, 1842–1904” (Saint Louis University, 2005). Order No. DA3211610.

Jurgena, Melissa Stewart, “By God’s Grace and the Needle: The Life and Labors of Mercy Jane Bancroft Blair” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006). Order No. DA3208049.

Nickolai, Carol A., “Of Farms and Women: The Occupation of the Emily and Amanda Shepard Farm, 1876–1920” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3211124.

 

Her Many Horses, Emil, ed., Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses. (New York: Collins, 2007. 160 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-06-115369-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Miller, Mary E., Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. x, 212 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-57003-655-2.)

Triece, Mary E., On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x, 179 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03151-9. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07391-5.)

Wayne, Tiffany K., Women’s Roles in Nineteenth-Century America. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xxxvi, 210 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-313-33547-8.)

 

Beveridge, Albert J., III, and Susan Radomsky, eds., The Chronicle of Catherine Eddy Beveridge: An American Girl Travels into the Twentieth Century. (Lanham: Hamilton, 2005. 256 pp. $32.00, isbn 0-7618-3335-8.)

Deese, Helen R., ed., Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall, Vol. 1: 1838–1855. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006. xlviii, 598 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-934909-90-7.)

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