Recent Scholarship
Women
Scatamacchia, Cristina, “Traveling Light: La borsa di Nellie Bly” (Traveling light: Nellie Bly’s bag), in Abito e Identità: Ricerche di Storia Letteraria e Culturale (Clothes and identity: Research in literary and cultural history), ed. Cristina Giorcelli, 179–200. (Palermo and Rome: Ila Palma, 2007. €25.00, isbn 887704-599X.) In Italian.
Traflet, Janice, “Gendered Dollars: Pin Money, Mad Money, and Changing Notions of a Woman’s Proper Place,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 26 (2008), 189–202.
Addison, Wanda G., “Reclamation Voices: Self and Silence in Narratives by and about Black Women” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2007). Order No. DA3261761.
Belanger, Elizabeth C., “Women Emergent: Gender, Geography, and Activism in St. Louis and Chicago” (Brown University, 2007). Order No. DA3271950.
Berg Burin, Nikki, “A Regency of Women: Female Plantation Management in the Old South” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3263081.
Cella, Laurie J. C., “A Radical Romance: The Intersection of the Conversion Narrative and the Romance Plot in Proletarian Novels, 1862–1939” (University of Connecticut, 2007). Order No. DA3268124.
Clark, Jennifer Susanne, “Mapping Feminism: Representing Women’s Liberation in 1970s Popular Media” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3262767.
Emmett, Hilary Marion Jane, “‘Passion more than fraternal’: Towards a Poetics and Politics of Sisterhood in the American Novel, 1798–1987” (Cornell University, 2007). Order No. DA3276847.
Fine, Eve, “Pathways to Practice: Women Physicians in Chicago, 1850–1902” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007). Order No. DA3278791.
Goodier, Susan, “The Other Woman’s Movement: Anti-Suffrage Activism in New York State, 1865–1932” (State University of New York, Albany, 2007). Order No. DA3270283.
Johnson, Kathleen Carlton, “Radical Social Activism, Lay Catholic Women, and American Feminism, 1920–1960” (University of South Africa, 2007). Order No. DADA0818843.
Lancaster, Ashley Craig, “Altruistic Mothers and Sexual Predators: Creating the Poor-White Woman in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature” (University of Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3279424.
Lowgren, Andrea, “City Limits: Reputation and the Sexual Cartography of Women’s Mobility in Mid-Twentieth-Century San Francisco” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007). Order No. DA3265720.
May, Vanessa Harkins, “Working in Public and in Private: Domestic Service, Women’s Reform, and the Meaning of the Middle-Class Home in New York City, 1870–1940” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3280017.
McGehee, Margaret Thomas, “On Margaret Mitchell’s Grave: Women Writers Imagining Modern Atlanta” (Emory University, 2007). Order No. DA3264084.
Nicholson, C. Bríd, “Emma Goldman: ‘Woven of Many Skeins’” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3268696.
Odrcic, Liana J., “Reading Our Lives: Collective Reading and Cultural Work in 19th and 20th Century Wisconsin Women’s Book Clubs” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2007). Order No. DA3279097.
Perry, Katherine Denise, “Gender on Paper: Gender Performances in American Women’s Poetry, 1650–Present” (Auburn University, 2007). Order No. DA3265516.
Ray, Nancy Rebekah, “The Other Carter: Betty Werlein Carter, a Writer in Her Own Regard” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3275018.
Schneidhorst, Amy C., “It Wasn’t Just the Young: Mature Women’s Fight for Peace and Justice in Chicago during the Sixties” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3267046.
Allaback, Sarah, The First American Woman Architects. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv, 265 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-252-03321-6.)
Ferrell, Robert H., Grace Coolidge: The People’s Lady in Silent Cal’s White House. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xiv, 184 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1563-6.)
Giorcelli, Cristina, ed., Abito e identità: Ricerche di storia letteraria e culturale (Clothes and identity: Research in literary and cultural history). (Palermo and Rome: Ila Palma, 2007. €25.00, isbn 887704-599X.) In Italian.
Rickman, Sarah Byrn, Nancy Love and the wasp Ferry Pilots of World War II. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008. xx, 332 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-57441-241-3.)
Roberts, Betty, and Gail Wells, With Grit and by Grace: Breaking Trails in Politics and Law, a Memoir. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2008. xii, 276 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-87071-199-2.)
Shaw, Susan M., God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, and Society. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xiv, 300 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2476-6.)
Vautrin, Minnie, Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937–38, ed. Suping Lu. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xxxviii, 261 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-252-03332-2.)
White, Deborah Gray, ed., Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii, 291 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3201-1. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5881-3.)
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