Recent Scholarship
Women
Abbott, Traci B., “Every Woman’s Share: Female Sexuality in Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 634–60.
Baumler, Ellen, “Justice as an Afterthought: Women and the Montana Prison System,” Montana, 58 (Summer 2008), 41–59. Heavily illustrated.
Brooks, Cecelia, “‘Touch the Bottom and Lift’: Black Women Home Extension Agents in Oklahoma, 1912–1935,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 88–108.
Carman, Emily Susan, “Independent Stardom: Female Film Stars and the Studio System in the 1930s,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 583–615.
Chambers, Sarah C., and Lisa Norling, “Choosing to Be a Subject: Loyalist Women in the Revolutionary Atlantic World,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 39–62.
Cummins, Amy, “‘Loyal and Devoted Attachment’: Anti-Abolition Rhetoric by Southern Women of Letters, 1852–1860,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 13–27.
Farca, Paula Anca, “And, You, Miss, Are No Lady: Feminist and Postfeminist Scarlett O’Hara Rethinks the Southern Lady,” Southern Studies, 14 (Spring–Summer 2007), 73–90.
Ferguson, Lindsay C., “Whistle Blowing Is Not Just for Gym Class: Looking into the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX,” Texas Tech Law Review, 39 (Fall 2006), 167–96.
Gabrial, Brian, “A Woman’s Place: Defiance and Obedience; Newspaper Stories about Women during the Trial of John Brown,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 7–29.
Gatti, Stacey Horstmann, “In Their Own Backyard: The Local Imperative of Small Town Women’s Citizenship, 1896–1930,” New York History, 88 (Fall 2007), 419–52.
Greenberger, Marcia D., and Neena K. Chaudhry, “Worth Fighting For: Thirty-five Years of Title IX Advocacy in the Courts, Congress, and the Federal Agencies,” Cleveland State Law Review, 55 (no. 4, 2007), 491–501.
Hartmann-Ting, L. E., “The National Catholic School of Social Service: Redefining Catholic Womanhood through the Professionalization of Social Work during the Interwar Years,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 101–19.
Hicks, Paul, “Caroline O’Day: The Gentlewoman from New York,” New York History, 88 (Summer 2007), 287–305.
Howe, Barbara, “Practicing Medicine in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wheeling: The Story of Dr. Eliza Clark Hughes,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, 12 (Fall 2006), 7–35.
Kaag, John, “Women and Forgotten Movements in American Philosophy: The Work of Ella Lyman Cabot and Mary Parker Follett,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 44 (Winter 2008), 134–57.
Katz, Sherry J., “‘Researching Around Our Subjects’: Excavating Radical Women,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 168–86.
Kirby, Lisa A., “‘How it Grieves the Heart of a Mother [. . .]’: The Intersection of Gender, Class, and Politics in Grace Lumpkin’s To Make My Bread,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 661–77.
Kuzma-Markowska, Sylwia, “Transatlantyckie kontakty dzialaczy na rzecz kontroli urodzen w Polsce i Stanach Zjednoczonych, 1931–1960” (Trans-Atlantic contacts of birth control activists in Poland and the United States, 1931–1960), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 200–214. In Polish.
Lewis, Norman P., “From Cheesecake to Chief: Newspaper Editors’ Slow Acceptance of Women,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 33–55.
Lindell, Lisa R., “‘Sowing the Seeds of Liberal Thought’: Unitarian Women Ministers in Nineteenth-Century South Dakota,” South Dakota History, 38 (Summer 2008), 148–80.
Lyon, Mary Lou, “Juana Briones de Miranda: The First Woman Settler of San Francisco,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 73, Spring 2008), 4–14.
MacLennan, Anne F., “Women, Radio Broadcasting, and the Depression: A ‘Captive’ Audience from Household Hints to Story Time and Serials,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 616–33.
Mannard, Joseph, “Widows in Convents of the Early Republic: The Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1790–1860,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 111–32.
Ogawa, Manako, “Estranged Sisterhood: The Wartime Trans-Pacific Dialogue of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1931–1945,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 18 (2007), 163–86.
Ossian, Lisa L., “‘Almost an Athens’: Iowa’s Rural Women’s Poetry of Place and Farm Playlets, 1930–1932,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 731–49.
Petit, Jeanne, “‘Organized Catholic Womanhood’: Suffrage, Citizenship, and the National Council of Catholic Women,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Winter 2008), 83–100.
Register, Cheri, “When Women Went Public: Feminist Reforms in the 1970s,” Minnesota History, 61 (Summer 2008), 62–75. Heavily illustrated.
Sandler, Bernice Resnick, “Title IX: How We Got It and What a Difference It Made,” Cleveland State Law Review, 55 (no. 4, 2007), 473–89.
Shaddox, Abagail M., “From Backbench to Oval Office: The Letters of Lucy Randolph Mason and Eleanor Roosevelt,” Southern Studies, 14 (Spring–Summer 2007), 13–31.
Shaw, Susan M., “Gracious Submission: Southern Baptist Fundamentalists and Women,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 20 (Spring 2008), 51–77.
Spencer, Robyn Ceanne, “Engendering the Black Freedom Struggle: Revolutionary Black Womanhood and the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area, California,” Journal of Women’s History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 90–113.
Ward, Kathleen A., “Before and After the White Man: Indian Women, Property, Progress, and Power,” Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, 6 (Spring–Summer 2007), 245–67.
Wells, Jonathan Daniel, “A Voice in the Nation: Women Journalists in the Early Nineteenth-Century South,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (June 2008), 165–82.
Williams, Rhonda Y., “Black Women and Black Power,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (July 2008), 22–26.
Bieluk, Halina, “Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady and Her Image” (University of Bialystok, Poland, 2007).
Bonillas, Luisa Elena, “Pushing for Change: Women of Color at Wellesley College, 1966–2001” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287915.
Cabello, Juanita, “Literary Travel, the Woman Traveler, and Twentieth Century Constructions of Mexican Tourist Spaces” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287469.
Dozier, Lorraine, “Accumulating Disadvantage: The Growth in Black-White Wage Gap among Women” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3289765.
Harris, LaShawn Denise, “Reconstructing Respectability: The Remaking of African-American Women’s Activism, 1896–1960” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283247.
Jenkins, Tricia Anne, “The Female Agen(t)cy: Gender and Nationalism in American Primetime Espionage Series (1950–2006)” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282130.
McDaniel, L. Bailey, “Nurturing Fallacies: Constructing the Maternal in Twentieth-Century American Drama” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3290759.
Motl, Kevin Conrad, “A Time for Reform: The Woman Suffrage Campaign in Rural Texas, 1914–1919” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3280540.
Muzak, Joanne Marie, “High Lives/Low Lives: Women’s Narratives of Drug Addiction” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR33035.
O’Sullivan, Meg Devlin, “‘We Worry about Survival’: American Indian Women, Sovereignty, and the Right to Bear and Raise Children in the 1970s” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289127.
Puaca, Laura Micheletti, “A New National Defense: Feminism, Education, and the Quest for ‘Scientific Brainpower,’ 1940–1965” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3288985.
Rubin, Karen Aviva, “The Aftermath of Sorrow: White Women’s Search for Their Lost Cause, 1861–1917” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282659.
Shaw, Barbara L., “(Re)mapping the Black Atlantic: Violence, Affect, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Migration Literature” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283419.
DeLatte, Carolyn E., Lucy Audubon: A Biography. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xxvi, 248 pp. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3381-1.) Originally published in 1982.
Gorn, Elliott J., ed., Sports in Chicago. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. x, 322 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03317-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07523-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Mann, Barbara Alice, ed., Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 133 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8032-6042-9.)
Smith, Merril D., Women’s Roles in Seventeeth-Century America. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xxviii, 183 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-313-33976-9.)
Strong, Susan Rumsey, Thought Knows No Sex: Women´s Rights at Alfred University. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7513-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7514-0.)
Yamauchi, Megumi, Fushizen to Yobareta Feminisuto: Sharotto Pakinzu Giruman to Atarashii Bosei (A feminist called unnatural: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and new motherhood). (Tokyo: Toshindo, 2008. 219 pp. ¥3,360, isbn 978-4-8871-3840-7.) In Japanese.
Brown, Frances DeBra, An Army in Skirts: The World War II Letters of Frances DeBra. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2008. x, 264 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-87195-264-0.)
Patterson, Martha H., ed., The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894–1930. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xvi, 340 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4295-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4296-6.)
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