Recent Scholarship
Women
Beatty, Barbara, “‘Politics Are Quite Perplexing’: Bessie Locke and the National Kindergarten Association Campaign, 1909–60,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 195–213. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Brown, Steven E., “Breaking Barriers: The Pioneering Disability Students Services Program at the University of Illinois, 1948–1960,” in The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power, ed. Eileen H. Tamura, 165–92. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 226 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60043-0.)
Cochrane, Sharlene Voogd, “The Student ywca: Intersections of Gender, Religion, and Race, 1915–25,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 143–62. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Denny, Margaret, “Image Makers, Picture Takers: Illinois Women Photographers, 1850–1900,” Journal of Illinois History, 10 (Summer 2007), 133–56.
Gasman, Marybeth, “‘I Think I’d Like to Have the Experience of Meeting a Negro’: New York City’s White Society Women Raise Funds for Black Colleges, 1944–60,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 163–78. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Hines, Laurie Moses, “‘Forwarding Our Great Purpose of Research in Education’: Women and Educational Research in Pi Lambda Theta, 1920–60,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 39–55. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Johnson, Joan Marie, “‘Standing Up for High Standards’: The Southern Association of College Women,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 17–37. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Keenan, Claudia J., “The Suburban pta and the Good Life, 1920–60,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 235–50. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Knecht, Andra, “‘We Are from the City, and We Are Here to Educate You’: The Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs and Tallulah Falls School,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 215–33. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
McCarthy, Tara M., “‘The Humaner Instinct of Women’: Hannah Bailey and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’s Critique of Militarism and Manliness in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Peace & Change, 33 (April 2008), 191–216.
Mieras, Emily, “Latter-Day Knights: College Women, Social Settlements, and Social Class in the Progressive-Era United States,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 101–19. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Miller, Nancy R., “Cornelia Bryce Pinchot and the Struggle for Protective Labor Legislation in Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (Jan. 2008), 33–64.
Musser, Amber Jamilla, “From Our Body to Yourselves: The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and Changing Notions of Subjectivity, 1969–1973,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 35 (Spring-Summer 2007), 93–109.
Nidiffer, Jana, “The National College Equal Suffrage League,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 81–99. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Parasecoli, Fabio, “Bootylicious: Food and the Female Body in Contemporary Black Pop Culture,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 35 (Spring-Summer 2007), 110–25.
Puaca, Laura Micheletti, “Cold War Women: Professional Guidance, National Defense, and the Society of Women Engineers, 1950–60,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 57–77. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Ray, Angela G., and Cindy Koenig Richards, “Inventing Citizens, Imagining Gender Justice: The Suffrage Rhetoric of Virginia and Francis Minor,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 93 (Nov. 2007), 375–402.
Rohan, Liz, “‘The Worker Must Have Bread, but She Must Have Roses, Too’: The Education Programs of the Women’s Trade Union League, 1908–26,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 121–40. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Rojas, Maythee, “Re-Membering Josefa: Reading the Mexican Female Body in California Gold Rush Chronicles,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 35 (Spring-Summer 2007), 126–48.
Sanders-McMurtry, Kijua, and Nia Woods Haydel, “Linking Friendship and Service: Education and Philanthropy among the Black Elite, 1946–60,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 179–92. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Ward, Barbara McLean, “‘Circumstances of Imperious Consequence’: Insecurity, Independence, and History in the Lives of the Women of the Moffatt-Ladd House,” Historical New Hampshire, 61 (Fall 2007), 120–41.
Balano, Randy C., “At the Tip of the Trident: Integrating Women into the Fleet” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3255103.
Carroll, Tamar W., “Grassroots Feminism: Direct Action Organizing and Coalition Building in New York City, 1955–1995” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3253228.
Everson, Elisa Ann, “‘A little labour of love’: The Extraordinary Career of Dorothy Ripley, Female Evangelist in Early America” (Georgia State University, 2007). Order No. DA3260557.
Goldstein, Marcia Tremmel, “‘Meet me at the ballot box’: Women’s Innovations in Party and Electoral Politics in Post-Suffrage Colorado, 1893–1898” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007). Order No. DA3256462.
Heller, Jennifer L., “The Search for Something More: Evangelical Women, Middle-Class Marriage, and the ‘problem that has no name’ in Popular Advice Books of the 1970s” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3261048.
Hennessey, Helen Dixon, “Beatrice Wood: Sophisticated Primitive” (Florida State University, 2004). Order No. DA3263877.
McNeill, Karen Ann, “Building the California Women’s Movement: Architecture, Space, and Gender in the Life and Work of Julia Morgan” (University of California, Berkeley, 2006). Order No. DA3253982.
McRaven, Deborah, “Birth Control Women: Controlling Reproduction in the South, 1933–1973” (University of Kentucky, 2006). Order No. DA3250585.
Roberts, Evan Warwick, “Her Real Sphere? Married Women’s Labor Force Participation in the United States, 1860–1940” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3260531.
Weaver, Gina Marie, “Ideologies of Forgetting: American Erasure of Women’s Sexual Trauma in the Vietnam War” (Rice University, 2007). Order No. DA3256763.
Haigh, Jane G., Searching for Fannie Quigley: A Wilderness Life in the Shadow of Mount McKinley. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xxii, 185 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-8040-1096-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8040-1097-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Kleinberg, S. Jay, Eileen Boris, and Vicki L. Ruiz, eds., The Practice of U.S. Women’s History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. x, 370 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4180-8. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4181-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Knupfer, Anne Meis, and Christine Woyshner, eds., The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
McGill, Meredith L., ed., The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xii, 264 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4229-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4230-0.)
Zheutlin, Peter, Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride. (New York: Citadel, 2007. 260 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-8065-2851-9.)
Doress-Worters, Paula, ed., Mistress of Herself: Speeches and Letters of Ernestine L. Rose, Early Women’s Rights Leader. (New York: Feminist Press, 2008. xxx, 389 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-1-55861-544-1. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-55861-543-4.)
Mathes, Valerie Sherer, “Helen Hunt Jackson and the California Mission Indians: Selected Letters,” Boletín, 23–24 (nos. 1–2, 2006–2007), 4–23. Heavily illustrated.
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