Recent Scholarship
Women
Bix, Amy, “Creating ‘Chicks Who Fix’: Women, Tool Knowledge, and Home Repair, 1920–2007,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 38–60.
Blakesley, Katie Clark, “‘A Style of Our Own’: Modesty and Mormon Women, 1951–2008,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 42 (Summer 2009), 20–54.
Blue, Ellen, “True Methodist Women: Reflections on the Community at St. Mark’s,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 215–36. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Brady, Patricia, “Eliza Jane Nicholson: New Orleans Publisher,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 94–113. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Carpenter, Laura M., and Monica J. Casper, “Global Intimacies: Innovating the hpv Vaccine for Women’s Health,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 80–100.
Christensen, Wendy M., “Technological Boundaries: Defining the Personal and the Political in Military Mothers’ Online Support Forums,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 146–66.
Clare, Rod, “Resisting ‘the Doldrums’: The League of Women Voters in North Carolina in the 1950s,” North Carolina Historical Review, 86 (April 2009), 180–207.
Daniels, Jesse, “Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 101–24.
Dossett, Kate, “‘I Try to Live Somewhat in Keeping with My Reputation as a Wealthy Woman’: A’Lelia Walker and the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Summer 2009), 90–114.
Endres, Kathleen, “In Their Own Voices: Women Redefine and Frame Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” American Journalism, 26 (Winter 2009), 55–80.
Farmer-Kaiser, Mary, “Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone: The ‘Agony and Strife’ of Civil War Louisiana,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 73–93. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Flores, Lori A., “An Unladylike Strike Fashionably Clothed: Mexicana and Anglo Women Garment Workers against Tex-Son, 1959–1963,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Aug. 2009), 367–402.
Fontenot, Kevin S., and Ryan André Brasseaux, “Cleoma Breaux Falcon: The Commercialization of Cajun Music,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 237–52. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Friedman, Barbara, et al., “Stirred, Not Yet Shaken: Integrating Women’s History into Media History,” American Journalism, 26 (Winter 2009), 160–74.
Frystak, Shannon, “Oretha Castle Haley: ‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around,’” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 303–23. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Herdlein, Richard, “Deans of Women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Story Left Untold,” Journal of Negro Education, 77 (Fall 2008), 291–305.
Hudson, Linda, “Uppity Women Rise Up and Have Breakfast: The East Texas Historical Association’s Women’s History Breakfast,” East Texas Historical Journal, 48 (no. 2, 2009), 48–60.
Huebner, Karin L., “An Unexpected Alliance: Stella Atwood, the California Clubwomen, John Collier, and the Indians of the Southwest, 1919–1934,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Aug. 2009), 337–66.
Jepsen, Thomas C., “‘A Look ino the Future’: Women Railroad Telegraphers and Station Agents in Pennslyvania, 1855–1960,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Spring 2009), 141–63.
Kessler, Bree, “Recruiting Wombs: Surrogates as the New Security Moms,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 167–82.
Kogan, Lee, “Clementine Hunter: Self-Taught Louisiana Artist,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 175–94. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Langley, Linda, Claude Oubre, and Jay Precht, “Louisa Williams Robinson, Her Daughters, and Her Granddaughters: Recognizing the Contributions of Three Generations of Coushatta Women in Louisiana,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 155–74. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Laville, Helen, “‘Women of Conscience’ or ‘Women of Conviction’? The National Women’s Committee on Civil Rights,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 43 (August 2009), 277–95.
Layne, Linda L., “The Home Pregnancy Test: A Feminist Technology?,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 61–79.
Leathem, Karen Trahan, “Mary Land: ‘When I Was Big Enough to Tote a Gun, I Did,’” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 270–85. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Lee, Dyana Bowker, “Caroline Dormon: Louisiana’s Cultural Conservator,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 253–69. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
MacKay, Kathryn L., “Sisters of Ogden’s Mount Benedict Monastery,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Summer 2009), 242–59.
Madsen-Brooks, Leslie, “Challenging Science as Usual: Women’s Participation in American Natural History Museum Work, 1870–1950,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Summer 2009), 11–38.
McMahon, Lucia, “‘Of the Utmost Importance to Our Country’: Women, Education, and Society, 1780–1820,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 475–506.
Miles, Tiya, “‘Circular Reasoning’: Recentering Cherokee Women in the Antiremoval Campaigns,” American Quarterly, 61 (June 2009), 221–43.
Minowa, Satomi, “Saikenki Amerika niokeru furi rabu to josei sanseiken Undo: Vikutoria Uddoharu to Zenkoku Josei Sanseiken Kyoki” (Free love and the woman suffrage movement in Reconstruction America: Victoria Woodhull and the National Woman Suffrage Association), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 3–19. In Japanese.
Monnett, John H., “‘My Heart Now Has Become Changed to Softer Feelings’: A Northern Cheyenne Woman and Her Family Remember the Long Journey Home,” Montana, 59 (Summer 2009), 45–61. Heavily illustrated.
Neuhaus, Jessamyn, “‘Is It Ridiculous for Me to Say I Want to Write?’: Domestic Humor and Redefining the 1950s Housewife Writer in Fan Mail to Shirley Jackson,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Summer 2009), 115–37.
Nickerson, Michelle, “Politically Desperate Housewives: Women and Conservatism in Postwar Los Angeles,” California History, 86 (no. 3, 2009), 4–21. Heavily illustrated.
Norwood, Stephen H., “Organizing the Neglected Worker: The Women’s Trade Union League in New York and Boston, 1930–1950,” Labor History, 50 (May 2009), 163–85.
Orna, Mary Virginia, “Women Chemists in the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame: Their Remarkable Lives and Their Award-Winning Research,” Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 34 (no. 1, 2009), 51–60.
Ratliff, Clancy, “Policing Miscarriage: Infertility Blogging, Rhetorical Enclaves, and the Case of House Bill 1677,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Spring–Summer 2009), 125–45.
Reed, Jennifer, “Lily: Sold Out!; The Queer Feminism of Lily Tomlin,” Genders (no. 49, 2009), http://www.genders.org.
Suzuki, Shutaro, “Kenkoku-ki no josei-kyoiku to ‘josei no kenri’ ron” (Women’s education in the early national period and the theory of women’s rights), Rekishi Hyoron (Tokyo) (no. 707, 2009), 20–32. In Japanese.
Toth, Emily, “Kate Chopin: Knowing What It Means to Miss New Orleans,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 114–36. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Tsuchiya, Yuka, “Amerika gasshuikoku no taigai joho-kyoiku seisaku no bunmayku niokeru senryo-ki Nihon no joshi-kyoiku kaikau” (Women’s education reform in occupied Japan in the context of U.S. overseas information and education policy), Ehime Daigaku Hobungakubu Ronshu (Matsuyama), 24 (2008), 113–40. In Japanese.
Vella, Christina, “Dorothy Dix: The World Brought Her Its Secrets,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 195–214. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot, “Forgotten Feminist: Women’s Page Editor Maggie Savoy and the Growth of Women’s Liberation Awareness in Los Angeles,” California History, 86 (no. 2, 2009), 48–64. Heavily illustrated.
Wallis, Eileen V., “‘Keeping Alive the Old Tradition’: Spanish-Mexican Club Women in Southern California, 1880–1940,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Summer 2009), 133–54.
Wilson, Mary Ann, “Grace King: New Orleans Literary Historian,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 137–54. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Belasco, Daniel, “Between the Waves: Feminist Positions in American Art, 1949–1962” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3329856.
Benson-Smith, Dionne, “Lacking Legitimacy: Race, Gender, and the Social Construction of African American Women in Welfare Policy, 1935–2006” (Syracuse University, 2008). Order No. DA3323038.
Drews, Marie Ilene, “Cooking Up Trouble: The Cultural Work of Kitchen Kitsch” (Washington State University, 2008). Order No. DA3333929.
Fischesser, Sarah M., “‘Thanks to Title IX’: Female Athletes’ Identifications and Team Sports in Transition” (Syracuse University, 2008). Order No. DA3323053.
McQuade, Lena, “Troubling Reproduction: Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism in New Mexico, 1919–1945” (University of New Mexico, 2008). Order No. DA3329461.
Rex, Cathy, “Indianness and Womanhood: Textualizing the Female American Self” (Auburn University, 2008). Order No. DA3333146.
Russo, Sarah L., “Women’s Self-Writing and Medical Science: Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Jacobs, and Elizabeth Stoddard” (Syracuse University, 2008). Order No. DA3323081.
Ryan, Kathleen M., “‘When Flags Flew High’: Propaganda, Memory, and Oral History for World War II Female Veterans” (University of Oregon, 2008). Order No. DA3325683.
Slutsky, Beth Suzanne, “Three Generations of American Communist Women: Charlotte Anita Whitney, Dorothy Ray Healey, and Kendra Alexander, 1919–1992” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3329669.
Tolson, Claudette L., “The Excluded and the Included: Chicago, White Supremacy, and the Clubwomen’s Movement, 1873–1915” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3332374.
Gentry, Judith F., and Janet Allured, eds., Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Ginzberg, Lori D., Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. 254 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8090-9493-6.)
Leder, Jane Mersky, Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex, and World War II. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xxx, 185 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-59797-277-2.)
Spruill, Marjorie Julian, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson, eds., South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 1. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xx, 316 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2935-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2936-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Turner, Elizabeth Hayes, Women and Gender in the New South, 1865–1945. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2009. xxiv, 271 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-88295-265-9.)
Belasco, Susan, ed., Stowe in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. xliv, 283 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-1-58729-782-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Mackall, Mary L., Stevan F. Meserve, and Anne Mackall Sasscer, eds., In the Shadow of the Enemy: The Civil War Journal of Ida Powell Dulany. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. xxxii, 271 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-1-57233-658-2.)
McCabe, Katie, and Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Justice Older Than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xvi, 259 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-60473-132-3.)
McCovey, Mavis, and John F. Salter, Medicine Trails: A Life in Many Worlds. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2009. xvi, 343 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-1-59714-117-8.)
Wink, Amy L., ed., Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856–1884. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 420 pp. $56.00, isbn 978-1-57233-504-2.)
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