Recent Scholarship
Women
Berg, Allison, “Trauma and Testimony in Black Women’s Civil Rights Memoirs: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, Warriors Don’t Cry, and From the Mississippi Delta,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Fall 2009), 84–107.
Bloomberg, Kristin Mapel, “‘Striving for Equal Rights for All’: Woman Suffrage in Nebraska, 1855–1882,” Nebraska History, 90 (Summer 2009), 84–103. Heavily illustrated.
Cummins, Amy, “‘An Honor to Be a Teacher’: Antebellum Literary Depictions of Schoolwomen,” Women’s Studies, 38 (Oct. 2009), 799–817.
Devine, Jenny Barker, “‘Hop to the Top with the Iowa Chop’: The Iowa Porkettes and Cultivating Agrarian Feminisms in the Midwest, 1964–1992,” Agricultural History, 83 (Fall 2009), 477–502.
Gaul, Theresa Strouth, “Recovering Recovery: Early American Women and Legacy’s Future,” Legacy, 26 (no. 2, 2009), 262–83.
Hahner, Leslie A., “Working Girls and the Temporality of Efficiency,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95 (Aug. 2009), 289–310.
Harris, Sharon M., “‘Across the Gulf’: Working in the ‘Post-Recovery’ Era,” Legacy, 26 (no. 2, 2009), 284–98.
Huber, Patrick, “Mill Mother’s Lament: Ella May Wiggins and the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Fall 2009), 81–110.
Jones, Stacey, “Dynamic Social Norms and the Unexpected Transformation of Women’s Higher Education, 1965–1975,” Social Science History, 33 (Fall 2009), 248–91.
Joseph, Ralinda L., “‘Tyra Banks Is Fat’: Reading (Post-)Racism and (Post-)Feminism in the New Millenium,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26 (Aug. 2009), 237–54.
Kilcup, Karen L., “Embodied Pedagogies: Femininity, Diversity, and Community in Anthologies of Women’s Writing, 1836–2009,” Legacy, 26 (no. 2, 2009), 299–328.
Kopp, Peter, “By Rail and by Road: Nevada Landscapes in Women’s Transcontinental Travelogues, 1873–1920,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 52 (Spring 2009), 3–32.
LaBennett, Oneka, “Histories and ‘Her Stories’ from the Bronx: Excavating Hidden Hip Hop Narratives,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 109–31.
Lee, Chang-Shin, “Yeoseongeu Yookchee Daehan Yeoseongeu Keonri: Margaret Sanger Wa Migookeu Sanajaehan Woondong” (A woman’s right for woman’s body: Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in America), Migukhaknongip, 40 (Sept. 2008), 215–50. In Korean.
Lindell, Lisa R., “‘So Long as I Can Read’: Farm Women’s Reading Experiences in Depression-Era South Dakota,” Agricultural History, 83 (Fall 2009), 503–27.
Lui, Mary Ting Yi, “Saving Young Girls from Chinatown: White Slavery and Woman Suffrage, 1910–1920,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (Sept. 2009), 393–417.
Martens, Allison M., “Working Women or Women Workers? The Women’s Trade Union League and the Transformation of the American Constitutional Order,” Studies in American Political Development, 23 (Oct. 2009), 143–70.
Orlando, Emily J., “‘That I May Not Faint, or Die, or Swoon’: Reviving Pre-Raphaelite Women,” Women’s Studies, 38 (Sept. 2009), 611–46.
Parascandola, John, “Quarantining Women: Veneral Disease Rapid Treatment Centers in World War II America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Fall 2009), 431–59.
Pettit, Becky, and Stephanie Ewert, “Employment Gains and Wage Declines: The Erosion of Black Women’s Relative Wages since 1980,” Demography, 46 (Aug. 2009), 469–92.
Robertson, Stacey, “‘The Strength that Union Gives’: Western Women and Pragmatic Antislavery Politics,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (Sept. 2009), 299–315.
Rousmaniere, Kate, “The Short, Radical Life of Pearl McGill,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Fall 2009), 9–19.
Scharff, Virginia, and Carolyn Brucken, “The House of the Three Wise Women: A Family Legacy in the American Southwest,” California History, 86 (no. 4, 2009), 44–59. Heavily illustrated.
Strazdes, Diana, “Catharine Beecher and the American Woman’s Puritan Home,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Sept. 2009), 452–89.
Thompson, Cheryl, “Black Women, Beauty, and Hair as a Matter of Being,” Women’s Studies, 38 (Dec. 2009), 831–56.
Tonkovich, Nicole, “Of Compass Bearings and Reorientations in the Study of American Women Writers,” Legacy, 26 (no. 2, 2009), 242–61.
Vitale, Patrick, “Learning to Be Suburban: The Production of Community in Westwood Hills, Pennsylvania, 1952–1958,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 35 (Oct. 2009), 743–68.
Adams, Betty Livingston, “Fighting the Color Line in the ‘Ideal Suburb’: Working-Class Black Women and the Politics of Christian Activism in Summit, New Jersey, 1898–1945” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342547.
Browne, Errol Tsekani, “Anna Julia Cooper and Black Women’s Intellectual Tradition: Race, Gender, and Nation in the Making of a Modern Race Woman, 1892–1925” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3343326.
Bryant, Gary E., “Working Women in the Confederate South: White Southern Women in the Paid Labor Force during the Civil War” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3342758.
Carman, Emily Susan, “Independent Stardom: Female Stars and Freelance Labor in 1930s Hollywood” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3343311.
Collins, Elizabeth A., “Red-Baiting Public Women: Gender, Loyalty, and Red Scare Politics” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3345170.
Dietrich, Rayshelle, “Everyday Epistles: The Journal-Letter Writing of American Women, 1754–1836” (Texas Christian University, 2008). Order No. DA3337141.
Dunlavy, Jean, “A Band of Sisters: Vietnam Women Veterans’ Organization for Rights and Recognition, 1965–1995” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3345723.
Jefferson, Lynne T., “The Emergence of a Pioneer: The Manipulation of Hagar in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Novels” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3331474.
Kempker, Erin M., “Women at the Crossroads: Feminists, Conservatives, and Gender Politics in Indiana, 1950–1980” (Purdue University, 2008). Order No. DA3344018.
Kutz-Flamenbaum, Rachel, “Cycles of Protest: Impact of the Contemporary Anti-war Movement on the U.S. Women’s Movement” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338222.
Liang, Ying, “A Comparative Study of Eighteenth to Twentieth Century Chinese and American Country-of-Women Utopian Fictions” (Purdue University, 2008). Order No. DA3344071.
McMann, Cindy, “Women’s Spiritual Writings in the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance Movements” (University of Calgary, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR44359.
Medvesky, Angelique Hobbs, “Faulty Vision and Hearing in the Novels of Anne Tyler” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3331479.
Nathanson, Elizabeth, “As Easy as Pie: Housework, Temporality, and Postfeminist Popular Culture” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336458.
Plunkett, Irene L., “A Sturdy Rose: Spiritual Feminism—A Literary Legacy of Women of the United States, 16th through 20th Centuries” (California Institute of Integral Studies, 2008). Order No. DA3343920.
Ryder, Ulli Kira, “‘As Shelters against the Cold’: Women Poets of the Black Arts and Chicano Movements, 1965–1978” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3341787.
Sasaki-Gayle, Motoe, “Entangled with Empire: American Women and the Creation of the ‘New Woman’ in China, 1898–1937” (Johns Hopkins University, 2009). Order No. DA3339969.
Slyker, Avery L., “Women’s Leadership within the ywca: After Implementation of Steps to Absolute Change” (Capella University, 2008). Order No. DA3331421.
Ud Din, Kamal, “Mother Utters: Struggle and Subversion in the Works of Gwndolyn Brooks” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3331483.
Yoon, C. Insun, “Civilizing Mission for Women: American Methodist Missionary Women and Social Change in Korea, 1885–1940” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3340965.
Bakken, Gordon Morris, and Brenda Farrington, Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender, and the Press. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xiv, 272 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1361-6.)
Dunlap, Annette, Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America’s Youngest First Lady. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xii, 195 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-1-4384-2817-8.)
Foreman, P. Gabrielle, Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xviii, 255 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03474-9. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07664-0.)
Hamington, Maurice, The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 226 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-252-03476-3.)
Movius, Phyllis Demuth, A Place of Belonging: Five Founding Women of Fairbanks, Alaska. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2009. xiv, 162 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-60223-064-4.) Heavily illustrated.
Yamauchi, Megumi, Fushizenna hahaoya to yobareta feminisuto (The feminist called an ‘unnatural mother’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘new motherhood’). (Tokyo: Toshindo, 2008. 219 pp. ¥3,200, isbn 978-4-88713-840-7.) In Japanese.
Cuthbert, Robert B., and Stephen G. Hoffius, eds., Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. xxviii, 274 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57003-822-8.)
Kaminski, John P., ed., The Quotable Abigail Adams. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2009. xxxviii, 403 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-674-03532-4.)
Rhoades, Nancy L., and Lucy E. Bailey, eds., Wanted—Correspondence: Women’s Letters to a Union Soldier. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xxii, 410 pp. Cloth, $44.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1804-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1805-5.)
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