Recent Scholarship
Women
Baritono, Raffaella, “An Ideology of Sisterhood? American Women’s Movements between Nationalism and Transnationalism,” Journal of Political Ideologies (London), 13 (no. 2, 2008), 181–99.
Bates, Irene M., “The Wives of the Patriarchs,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2008), 85–109.
Block, Adrienne Fried, “Matinee Mania, or the Regendering of Nineteenth-Century Audiences in New York City,” Nineteenth-Century Music, 31 (Spring 2008), 193–216.
Daniels, Caroline, “‘The Feminine Touch Has Not Been Wanting’: Women Librarians at Camp Zachary Taylor, 1917–1919,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 3, 2008), 286–307.
Henderson, Metta Lou, and Margaret Wright, “Sister Pharmacists and Pharmacy Practice from the 1700s to the 1970s,” Pharmacy in History, 50 (no. 2, 2008), 70–81.
Hutchison, Coleman, “On the Move Again: Tracking the ‘Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez,’” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Dec. 2007), 423–40.
Laville, Helen, “Protecting Difference or Promoting Equality? U.S. Government Approaches to Women’s Rights and the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, 1945–50,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (Sept. 2007), 291–305.
McDuffie, Erik S., “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War,” Radical History Review (no. 101, Spring 2008), 81–106.
Olson, Mary, “Wielding the Power of Popular Sentiment: Woman’s Agency in Courtship and the Love Letters of Anna Todd,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 790–814.
Pettit, Michael, “The New Woman as ‘Tied-up Dog’: Amy E. Tanner’s Situated Knowledges,” History of Psychology, 11 (Aug. 2008), 145–63.
Schweitzer, Marlis, “Singing Her Own Song: Writing the Female Press Agent Back Into History,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 87–106.
Slater, Thomas J., “June Mathis’s The Legion of Death (1918): Melodrama and the Realities of Women in World War I,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 833–44.
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot, and Lance Speere, “Way Past Deadline: The Women’s Fight to Integrate the Milwaukee Press Club,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Autumn 2008), 28–43. Heavily illustrated.
Walker, Susannah, “‘Independent Livings’ or ‘No Bed of Roses’? How Race and Class Shaped Beauty Culture as an Occupation for African American Women from the 1920s to the 1960s,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 60–83.
Bowie, Rian Elizabeth, “Is There a Woman in the Text? The Black Press and the Emergence of Organized Black Womanhood, 1827–1900” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3298907.
Clark, Laurel A., “Taming the Territory: Women and Gender on the Florida Frontier” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3297145.
Froula, Anna Katherine, “Soldier Girls: Popular Representations of America’s Women in Uniform from World War II to the ‘War on Terror’” (University of Kentucky, 2007). Order No. DA3298826.
Gerow, Peggy A., “‘To Do Much with Very Little’: New Mexico’s Farm Women and the Cooperative Extension Service, 1914–1929” (University of New Mexico, 2007). Order No. DA3298176.
Gleich-Anthony, Jeanne M., “Democratizing Women: American Women and the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945–1951” (Ohio University, 2007). Order No. DA3295439.
Hellman, Caroline, “Sanctum Sanctorum: The Alternative Designs and Domesticities of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3298141.
Jackson-Weaver, Karen, “Lift Every Voice: Black Women’s Invisible Leadership and Faith during the Civil Rights Era, 1955–1965” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299314.
Kia, Parandeh, “An Iranian Eden: Women Activists and the Emergence of an Iranian Immigrant Community in Southern California, 1979–1993” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296159.
La Croix, Rachel M., “‘You’ve Come Part of the Way, Baby’: The Status of Women and Women’s Sports in Intercollegiate Athletics 28 Years after Title IX” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301568.
Malin, Leelannee K., “Reel Women: Depictions of Females in the Sport Film Genre” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3299678.
Musgrave, Megan L., “Phenomenal Women: Magical Activism in Postmodern Feminist Fiction” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3295468.
Neuffer, Julie Debra, “Fascinating Womanhood: Helen Andelin and the Politics of Religion in the ‘Other’ Women’s Movement, 1963–2006” (Washington State University, 2007). Order No. DA3302707.
Randolph, Sherie M., “‘Alliance of the Alienated’: Florynce ‘Flo’ Kennedy and Black Feminist Politics in Post–World War II America” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296847.
Reidt, Kelley Marie, “The Texas Cyclone: The Life of Educator-Activist Anna J. H. Pennybacker” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3298381.
Shafer, Karen, “Who Wants to Run for Office? Political Ambition among Women Activists” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3303254.
Smith, Sandra W., “Out of Her Separate Sphere: The Action-Adventure Heroine in American Literature, 1790–1900” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3296927.
Taylor-Moore, Sandra, “Helen Young: Her Leadership Values, Style, and Contributions from 1957 to 1998” (Pepperdine University, 2007). Order No. DA3293111.
Brinkman, Marie, Emerging Frontiers: Renewal in the Life of Women Religious; Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, 1955–2005. (Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist, 2008. xiv, 608 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8091-4540-9.)
Coltelli, Laura, ed., Reading Leslie Marmon Silko: Critical Perspectives through Gardens in the Dunes. (Pisa: University of Pisa Press, 2008. 240 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-88-8492-432-2.)
Duffy, Jennifer O’Connor, Working-Class Students at Radcliffe College, 1940–1970: The Intersection of Gender, Social Class, and Historical Context. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. x, 205 pp. $109.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5098-1.)
Duncan, Joyce, Shapers of the Great Debate on Women’s Rights: A Biographical Dictionary. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xx, 232 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-313-33869-4.)
Eppinga, Jane, They Made Their Mark: An Illustrated History of the Society of Woman Geographers. (Guilford: Globe Pequot, 2008. xiv, 273 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7627-4597-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Hagemann, Karen, Sonya Michel, and Gunilla Budde, eds., Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. (New York: Berghahn, 2008. xii, 324 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-1-84545-437-1.)
Helfand, Jessica, Scrapbooks: An American History. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 190 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-300-12635-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Johnson, Thomas H., and Helen S. Johnson, Also Called Sacajawea: Chief Woman’s Stolen Identity. (Long Grove: Waveland, 2008. xii, 124 pp. Paper, $13.95, isbn 978-1-57766-534-2.)
Kessner, Carole S., Marie Syrkin: Values beyond the Self. (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2008. xiv, 479 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-451-3.)
Kraus, Natasha Kirsten, A New Type of Womanhood: Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xvi, 262 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4333-2. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4368-4.)
Miller, John E., Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii, 263 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1823-0.)
Navarro, Sharon A., Latina Legislator: Leticia van de Putte and the Road to Leadership. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. x, 178 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-062-2.)
Numbers, Ronald L., Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008. xxxiv, 417 pp. Paper, $33.00, isbn 978-0-8028-0395-5.) Originally published in 1976.
Rivera, Lorna, Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post–Welfare Era. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 176 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03351-3. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07555-1.)
Rossini, Daniela, ed., Le americane: Donne e immagini di donne tra Belle Époque e fascismo (American women: Women and images of women between the Belle Époque and fascism). (Rome: Biblink, 2008. 285 pp. €27.00, isbn 978-88-88071-93-0.) In Italian.
Ruiz, Vicki L., From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 258 pp. Cloth, $99.00, isbn 978-0-19-537478-0. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-19-537477-3.) Tenth anniversary edition.
Seat, Karen K., “Providence Has Freed Our Hands”: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xx, 193 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3181-1.)
Whitt, Jan, Women in American Journalism: A New History. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xx, 189 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03354-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07556-8.)
Wolferman, Kristie C., The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley: Pioneer of Women’s Education in Missouri. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 160 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1805-6.)
Abbott, Grace, The Grace Abbott Reader, ed. John Sorenson, collab. Judith Sealander. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxxviii, 132 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1590-0.)
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