Recent Scholarship
Women
Alpern, Sara, “Harriet Williams Russell Strong: Inventor and California Businesswoman Extraordinaire,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Fall 2005), 223–68. Heavily illustrated.
Asaka, Ikuko, “Race and Gender in the Changing Paradigms of the History of Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Feminism,” Shakai Kagaku (Tokyo), 72 (2004), 109–30.
Bellows, Barbara L., “Eliza Lucas Pinckney: The Evolution of an Icon,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (April–July 2005), 147–65.
Binkley, Cameron, “A Cult of Beauty: The Public Life and Civic Work of Laura Lyon White,” California History, 83 (no. 2, 2005), 40–61.
Cameron, Diane, “Circumstances of Their Lives: Enslaved and Free Women of Color Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1648–1832,” Connecticut History, 44 (Fall 2005), 248–61.
Carter, Susan, “A Mic of Her Own: Stations, Collectives, and Women’s Access to Radio,” Journal of Radio Studies, 11 (Dec. 2004), 169–83.
Clemente, Deirdre, “Striking Ensembles: The Importance of Clothing on the Picket Line,” Labor Studies Journal, 30 (Winter 2006), 1–15.
Cornelsen, Kathleen, “Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II: Exploring Military Aviation, Encountering Discrimination, and Exchanging Traditional Roles in Service to America,” Journal of Women’s History, 17 (no. 4, 2005), 111–19.
Crouse, Jamie S., “‘If They Have a Moral Power’: Margaret Fuller, Transcendentalism, and the Question of Women’s Moral Nature,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 19 (Dec. 2005), 259–79.
Dassori, Emma, “Performing the Woman Question: The Emergence of Anti-suffrage Drama,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 19 (Dec. 2005), 301–17.
Dawkins, Laura, “Her Mammy’s Daughter: Symbolic Matricide and Racial Construction of Motherhood in Charles W. Chestnutt’s Her Virginia Mammy,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 16, Autumn 2005) http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.
Flint, Kate, “Women and Reading,” Signs, 31 (Winter 2006), 511–36.
Higomoto, Yoshio, “America kenkoku ki no seijibunka to ‘jyosei no kenri’ ronso” (The Rights of Woman and political culture in the early American republic), Shakai Kagaku (Tokyo), 72 (2004), 83–108. In Japanese.
Howell, Sarah M., “Daughter of Amnicola: Sallie Crutchfield Gaut,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 64 (Summer 2005), 120–33. Heavily illustrated.
Isaac, Gwyneira, “Re-Observation and the Recognition of Change: The Photographs of Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1879–1915),” Journal of the Southwest, 47 (Autumn 2005), 411–55. Heavily illustrated.
Jacobs, Margaret D., “Maternal Colonialism: White Women and Indigenous Child Removal in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940,” Western Historical Quarterly, 36 (Winter 2005), 453–76.
Janda, Sarah Eppler, “‘Her Heritage Is Helpful’: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Politicization of LaDonna Harris,” Great Plains Quarterly, 25 (Fall 2005), 211–27.
Jasen, Patricia, “Breast Cancer and the Politics of Abortion in the United States,” Medical History (London), 49 (Oct. 2005), 423–44.
Jones, Mark H., “‘To Tell Our Story’: Mary Townsend Seymour and the Early Years of Hartford’s Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1917–1920,” Connecticut History, 44 (Fall 2005), 205–32.
Kaneko, Ayumu, “Kokujin joseishi, kokujin ‘community,’ to ‘otokorashia’ gainen” (Black women’s history, black “community,” and the idea of masculinity), in Modern Masculinities, ed. Makoto Hosoya, . (Tokyo: Kagaku kenkyu hi nejo hokokusyo, 2003.) In Japanese.
Lewis, Carolyn Herbst, “Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality during the Cold War,” Journal of Women’s History, 17 (no. 4, 2005), 86–110.
Maack, Mary Niles, “American Bookwomen in Paris during the 1920s,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 399–415.
MacNeil, Deneise, “Mary Rowlandson and the Foundational Mythology of the American Frontier Hero,” Women’s Studies, 34 (Dec. 2005), 625–53.
Marcellus, Jane, “Moderns or Moms? Body Typing and Employed Women between the World Wars,” Women’s Studies, 34 (Oct. 2005), 551–73.
McInnis, Verity, “‘Ladies’ of the Frontier Forts,” Military History of the West, 35 (2005), 35–56.
Montrie, Chad, “‘Men Alone Cannot Settle a Country’: Domesticating Nature in the Kansas-Nebraska Grasslands,” Great Plains Quarterly, 25 (Fall 2005), 245–58.
Morgan, Jennifer, “Reproducing Slavery: Thinking about Women in Slavery,” Common-Place, 6 (Jan. 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Morris, Nancy J., “Beatrice Patton’s Hawai‘i,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 39 (2005), 75–90.
Passet, Joanne E., “Reading Hilda’s Home: Gender, Print Culture, and the Dissemination of Utopian Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century America,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 307–23.
Pearson, Lennart, “When Fredrika Bremer Came to Charleston,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 56 (Oct. 2005), 214–30.
Penner, Barbara, “‘A Vision of Love and Luxury’: The Commercialization of Nineteenth-Century American Weddings,” Winterthur Portfolio, 39 (Spring 2004), 1–20. Heavily illustrated.
Pohmer, Timothy T., “Mary Eliza Watters Risteau: First Woman to the State Capitol,” Hartford Historical Bulletin (no. 100, Winter–Spring 2005), 3–70. Heavily illustrated.
Rycenga, Jennifer, “A Greater Awakening: Women’s Intellect as a Factor in Early Abolitionist Movements, 1824–1834,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 21 (Fall 2005), 31–59.
Sato, Madoka, “Kyosei ijyu iko no cherokees zoku ni okeru rippo to jyosei no chii” (Postremoval legislation and the status of Cherokee women), Otsuma Hikaku Bunka (Tokyo), 5 (2004), 76–99. In Japanese.
Stange, Mary Zeiss, “Women and Hunting in the West,” Montana, 55 (Autumn 2005), 14–21.
Suzuki, Shutaro, “Firaderufia no young ladies’ academy ni miru kenkokuki joshi kyoiku” (The Young Ladies’ Academy of Philadelphia and female education in the early republic), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 27 (2004), 101–9. In Japanese.
Tanaka, Kei, “Japanese Picture Marriage and the Image of Immigrant Women in Early Twentieth-Century California,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo) (no. 15, 2004)
Tanaka, Kei, “Jyosei no shiminteki yakuwari to ‘shashin kekkon’ mondai” (Women’s role as citizens and the issue of Japanese picture marriage), Shakai Kagaku (Tokyo), 72 (2004), 149–71. In Japanese.
Toyoda, Maho, “Josei rodo gyosei no genten” (The roots of women’s labor protection: Establishing the Women’s and Minor’s Bureau in the U.S. occupation of Japan), Amerika-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 38 (2004), 159–78. In Japanese.
Weiler, Kathleen, “Mabel Carney at Teachers College: From Home Missionary to White Ally,” Teachers College Record, 107 (April 2005), 2599–2633.
Xiaoyu, Peng, “The Conversion of a Radical: Dorothy Day and The Catholic Social Thought,” in The Harmony and Prosperity of Civilizations: Selected Papers of Beijing Forum, 220–34. (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005. Paper, Y 55.00, isbn 730109762X.)
Brown, Elizabeth I., “Bye, Bye Miss American Pie: Wives of American Servicemen in Southeast Asia, 1961–1975” (University of Colorado, Boulder, 2005). Order No. DA3168266.
David, Susannah E., “De/constructions of Romance and the Body in Women’s Magazines: Implications for Gender” (Alliant International University, San Francisco, 2005). Order No. DA3170778.
de Forest, Andrea Jennifer, “Justine Wise Polier and Her Struggle for Juvenile Justice in New York City” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3176327.
Diamond, Jennifer, “Ivory Towers and Ivory Soap: Composition, Housewife Humor, and Domestic Gothic, 1940–1970” (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3170225.
Farnan, Sheryl Ann, “‘It is a profession that is new, unlimited, and rich!’: The Promotion of the American Fashion Designer in the 1930s” (Iowa State University, 2005). Order No. DA3172213.
Firestone, Elizabeth Elliott, “Where the Portraits on the Wall Are Women: The Personal Reflections of Return to College Women Who Attended a Southern Women’s College, 1974–1981” (Georgia State University, 2005). Order No. DA3166977.
Foster, Amy Elizabeth, “Sex in Space: The Politics and Logistics of Sexually Integrating nasa’s Astronaut Corps” (Auburn University, 2005). Order No. DA3173479.
Frystak, Shannon L., “‘Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom’: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana” (University of New Hampshire, 2005). Order No. DA3169081.
Hanscom, Sharon Dawn, “The Invisible Communists: Women’s Conception of Emancipatory Politics” (George Washington University, 2005). Order No. DA3167027.
Harper, Elizabeth P., “Socially Conservative, Academically Progressive: Higher Education for Southern Ladies, 1830–1900” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3177488.
Hawkes, Andrea Constantine, “The Life of Elizabeth McClintock Phillips, 1821–1896: A Story of Family, Friends, Community, and a Self-Made Woman” (University of Maine, 2005). Order No. DA3169622.
Hearst, Kathryn P., “Phoebe Apperson Hearst: The Making of an Upper-Class Woman, 1842–1919” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3174808.
Jack, Jordynn Marguerite, “Rhetorics of Time: Women’s Role in Wartime Science, 1939–1945” (Pennsylvania State University, 2005). Order No. DA3172978.
Janney-Lucas, Caroline Elizabeth, “If Not for the Ladies: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Making of the Lost Cause” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3169651.
Jones, Sandra E., “Handing on the Creative Spark: Black Women’s Reading Practices, a Speculative History” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2005). Order No. DA3168213.
JosephLynch, Nathalie, “‘They worked, of course’: Women’s Entrepreneurial Labor in 1910–1950s America” (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3170253.
Junk, Cheryl Fradette, “‘Ladies, arise! The world has need of you’: Frances Bumpass, Religion, and the Power of the Press, 1851–1860” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170464.
Schaechterle, Inez L., “Speaking of Sex: The Rhetorical Strategies of Frances Willard, Victoria Woodhull, and Ida Craddock” (Bowling Green State University, 2005). Order No. DA3171257.
Unsel, Julianne, “Woman’s Hour: Suffrage and American Citizenship in War and Reconstruction, 1914–1924” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005). Order No. DA3175589.
Way, Thaïsa, “Women as Force in Landscape Architecture, 1893–1942” (Cornell University, 2005). Order No. DA3173411.
Weber, Jody Marie, “Dance in Boston, 1860–1950: Converging Influences on Expressive and Contemporary American Dance” (Boston University, 2005). Order No. DA3167750.
Beasley, Maurine H., First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005. xxii, 335 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8101-2312-6.)
Bradley, Patricia, Women and the Press: The Struggle for Equality. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005. xxiv, 355 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8101-2313-4.)
Horton, Laurel, Mary Black’s Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. xxvi, 184 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 1-57003-609-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-57003-610-1.)
Laird, Helen L., A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888–1982. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. xviii, 508 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-299-21450-8.)
Li, Jin, Wenxue nvxing yu nvxing wenxue: 19shiji Meiguo nvxing xiaoshuojia ji zuopin (Literature on womanhood and feminine literature: 19th century United States womanhood novelists and their works). (Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 2004. 437 pp. Y 19.90, isbn 7-5600-2748-2.) In Chinese.
Lopach, James J., and Jean A. Luckowski, Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. xiv, 317 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-87081-812-0.)
Maeda, Mariko, Erenoa ransingu daresu (Eleanor Lansing Dulles). (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2004. 215 pp. ¥4,500, isbn 4641199655.) In Japanese.
McFeatters, Ann Carey, Sandra Day O’Connor: Justice in the Balance. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. viii, 224 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 0-8263-3218-8.)
Scheer, Teva J., Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. xx, 287 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8262-1626-9.)
Scott, Patricia Lyn, and Linda Thatcher, eds., Women in Utah History: Paradigm or Paradox?. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005. xviii, 438 pp. Cloth, $34.95, isbn 0-87421-624-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-87421-625-7.)
Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May, Women and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xxxvi, 409 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8135-3737-1.)
Yasutake, Rumi, Transnational Women’s Activism: The United States, Japan, and Japanese Immigrant Communities in California, 1859–1920. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. 185 pp. $45.00, isbn 0814797032.)
Antler, Joyce, Nina Schwartz, and Claire B. Uziel, eds., “How Did the First Jewish Women’s Movement Draw on Progressive Women’s Activism and Jewish Traditions, 1893–1936?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 9 (Dec. 2005) http://womhist.binghamton.edu.
Henold, Mary, ed., “How Did Catholic Women Participate in the Rebirth of American Feminism?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 9 (Dec. 2005) http://womhist.binghamton.edu.
Perry, Elisabeth Israels, and Jennifer Ann Price, eds., An American Girl and Her Four Years in a Boys’ College. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. vi, 217 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 0-472-09916-7. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-472-06916-0.)
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