Recent Scholarship
Women
Baker, Carrie N., “The Emergence of Organized Feminist Resistance to Sexual Harassment in the United States in the 1970s,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (Fall 2007), 161–84.
D’Antonio, Patricia, “Nurses—and Wives and Mothers: Women and the Latter-Day Saints Training School’s Class of 1919,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (Fall 2007), 112–36.
Gilmore, Stephanie, and Elizabeth Kaminski, “A Part and Apart: Lesbian and Straight Feminist Activists Negotiate Identity in a Second-Wave Organization,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 16 (Jan. 2007), 95–113.
Gronim, Sara Stidstone, “What Jane Knew: A Woman Botanist in the Eighteenth Century,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (Fall 2007), 33–59.
Hamington, Maurice, “Two Leaders, Two Utopias: Jane Addams and Dorothy Day,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 19 (Summer 2007), 159–86.
Itabashi, Akiko, “Dai-niji taisenki Amerika no kokoku ga egaita jyoseizo” (Women as consumers during wartime), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 29 (2006), 104–20. In Japanese.
Lain, Katy, “Lillian Burkhart Goldsmith: Shaping the City,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Fall 2007), 285–306.
Madison, James H., “‘Hey, Milwaukee’: A Wisconsin ‘Girl’ Goes to War, 1944–1945,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Autumn 2007), 28–41. Heavily illustrated.
McGraw, Charles, “‘The Intervention of a Friendly Power’: The Transnational Migration of Women’s Work and 1898 Imperial Imagination,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (Fall 2007), 137–60.
Nicolosi, Ann Marie, “‘The Most Beautiful Suffragette’: Inez Milholland and the Political Currency of Beauty,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (July 2007), 287–309.
Nielsen, Kim E., “The Southern Ties of Helen Keller,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Nov. 2007), 783–806.
Sugiyama, Keiko, “Ellen N. LaMotte, 1873–1961,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 17 (2006), 129–42.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, “How Betsy Ross Became Famous: Oral Tradition, Nationalism, and the Invention of History,” Common-Place, 8 (Oct. 2007), http://www.common-place.org.
Brashler, Phyllis C., “Flirting with Feminism: The State and the Battered Women’s Movement in Massachusetts” (Northeastern University, 2007). Order No. DA3244750.
Brimmer, Brandi Clay, “All Her Rights and Privileges: African-American Women and the Politics of Civil War Widows’ Pensions” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3240867.
Lowe, Sharon, “Behind the Soothing Mist: Women and Opiate Use in the Mining West, 1860–1900” (Union Institute & University, 2006). Order No. DA3248198.
Lynn, Denise M., “Women on the March: Gender and Anti-Fascism in American Communism, 1935–1939” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3241628.
McDaniel, Cecily Barker, “‘Fearing I shall not do my duty to my race if I remain silent’: Law and Its Call to African American Women, 1872–1932” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3247936.
Mitchell, Holly Bentley, “‘Power of thirds’: Widows and Property in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1680–1830” (Brandeis University, 2006). Order No. DA3243752.
Noonan, Julie A., “The Sound of Musicals’ Women: Tessitura and the Construction of Gender in the American Musical” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3243477.
Percy, Ruth, “Women or Workers? The Construction of Labour Feminism in London and Chicago, 1880s–1920s” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR21889.
Pierce, Onalee J., “An Uncommon Woman: The Centrality of Faith in the Reforms of Martha McClellan Brown (1838–1916)” (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2006). Order No. DA3245984.
Walsh, Kelli Cardenas, “Oveta Culp Hobby: A Transformational Leader from the Texas Legislature to Washington, D.C.” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3245442.
Younger, Karen Virginia Fisher, “‘Africa stretches forth her hands unto you’: Female Colonization Supporters in the Antebellum United States” (Pennsylvania State University, 2006). Order No. DA3248422.
Boomhower, Ray E., Fighting for Equality: A Life of May Wright Sewall. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2007. 160 pp. $17.95, isbn 978-0-87195-253-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl, Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2007. x, 294 pp. Cloth, $52.95, isbn 978-1-931968-47-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-931968-48-5.)
Westwood, Jean Miles, Madame Chair: The Political Autobiography of an Unintentional Pioneer. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. viii, 230 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87421-661-5.)
Wood, Betty, ed., Mary Telfair to Mary Few: Selected Letters, 1802–1844. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xliv, 317 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2920-8.)
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