Recent Scholarship
Women
Andersen, Rebecca, “Zionism in Zion: Salt Lake City’s Hadassah Chapter, 1943–1963,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Winter 2010), 39–57. Heavily illustrated.
Arnold, Lois, “The Education and Career of Carlotta J. Maury: Part 1,” Earth Sciences History, 28 (no. 2, 2009), 219–44.
Benjamin, Keisha, “How Did Rank and File Women Construct the ‘New Negro Woman’ within the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the 1920s?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (Sept. 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1000928880.
Cleary, Johanna, “‘Genêt’ on the Air: Janet Flanner’s Wartime Broadcasts,” Journalism History, 35 (Spring 2009), 34–41.
Cleary, Patricia, “How Did Living in an Outpost of Empire Influence Perceptions of Women’s Sexual, Marital, and Public Roles in Eighteenth-Century Colonial St. Louis?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (March 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1000999939.
Clemente, Deirdre, “Prettier Than They Used to Be: Femininity, Fashion, and the Recasting of Radcliffe’s Reputation, 1900–1950,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Dec. 2009), 637–66.
Dublin, Thomas, and Margaret Johnston, “How Did Elisabeth Freeman’s Publicity Skills Promote Woman Suffrage, Antilynching, and the Peace Movement, 1909–1919?, Part 1,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (June 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1000883455.
Dublin, Thomas, and Margaret Johnston, “How Did Elisabeth Freeman’s Publicity Skills Promote Woman Suffrage, Antilynching, and the Peace Movement, 1909–1919?, Part 2,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (June 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1000883520.
Edmonds-Cady, Cynthia, “Mobilizing Motherhood: Race, Class, and the Uses of Maternalism in the Welfare Rights Movement,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Fall–Winter 2009), 206–22.
Harrington, Ann M., “Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: The Philadelphia Connection, 1833–1843,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 17–30.
Hersey, Joanna Ross, and Jill M. Sullivan, “A History of the United States Coast Guard spar Band,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (April 2009), 118–46.
Jennings, Harlan, “Jenny Lind Comes to Missouri,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Jan. 2010), 63–77. Heavily illustrated.
Kealy, Marie Hubert, “Immigrant Church to University: Growth of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Eastern Pennsylvania,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 31–43.
Keenan, Claudia J., “Laura Carter Holloway and the First Lady’s Story,” White House Studies, 8 (no. 4, 2008), 467–88.
Lumsden, Linda, “‘Women’s Lib Has No Soul’? Analysis of Women’s Movement Coverage in Black Periodicals, 1968–73,” Journalism History, 35 (Fall 2009), 118–30.
Mace, Emily R., “Feminist Forerunners and a Usable Past: A Historiography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 25 (Fall 2009), 5–23.
Martinelli, Diana Knott, and Shannon A. Bowen, “The Public Relations Work of Journalism Trailblazer and First Lady Confidante Lorena Hickok, 1937–45,” Journalism History, 35 (Fall 2009), 131–40.
McAndrew, Malia, “Selling Black Beauty: African American Modeling Agencies and Charm Schools in Postwar America,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (Jan. 2010), 29–32.
McGuire, John Thomas, “Maintaining the Vitality of a Social Movement: Social Justice Femininism, Class Conflict, and the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921–1924,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Autumn 2009), 393–421.
Moravec, Michelle, “How Did the Los Angeles Woman’s Building Keep Feminism Alive?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (March 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1001000038.
Pearo, Charles, “Elizabeth Jane Gardner and the American Colony in Paris: ‘Making Hay while the Sun Shines’ in the Business of Art,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Winter 2009), 275–312.
Pridmore-Brown, Michele, “Annie Leibovitz’s Queer Consumption of Motherhood,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 37 (Fall–Winter 2009), 81–95.
Prieto, Laura, “How Did Women Sculptors Contribute to and Draw Support from the Antislavery and Woman’s Rights Movements, 1855–1875?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (Dec. 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1001234554.
Rademacher, Nicholas, “‘To Relate the Eucharist to Real Living’: Mother Teresa and Dorothy Day at the Forty-First International Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 59–72.
Riehm, Edith Holbrook, “How Did White Southern Churchwomen Use Their Race, Gender, and Faith in the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1945–1968?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (Sept. 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1000966295.
Schultz, April, “How Did Women Shape the Presentation of Norwegian American Ethnicity at the 1925 Norse-American Centennial?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (Dec. 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1001234510.
Sirotinskaia, M. M., “Zhenskoe dvizhenie v SShA, 1840–1850-e gg. (po materialam amerikanskikh periodicheskikh izdanii)” (The women’s movement in the United States as seen by American periodicals, 1840s–1850s), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 1; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), 137–88. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2008. 262 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-226-4.) In Russian.
Solórzano, Armando, Lisa M. Ralph, and J. Lynn England, “Community and Ethnicity: Hispanic Women in Utah’s Carbon County,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Winter 2010), 58–75.
Stur, Heather, “Perfume and Lipstick in the Boonies: Red Cross srao and the Vietnam War,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 1 (Dec. 2008), 151–65.
Treviño, Jennifer Newman, “Elizabeth Rhodes: An Alabama Woman’s Religious Beliefs during the Civil War,” Alabama Review, 62 (Oct. 2009), 243–61.
Unger, Nancy C., “Women for a Peaceful Christmas: Wisconsin Homemakers Seek to Remake American Culture,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Winter 2009–2010), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot, “The Florida Fight for Equality: The Equal Rights Amendment, Senator Lori Wilson and Mediated Catfights in the 1970s,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Fall 2009), 173–208.
Watson, William, “The Sisters of Charity, the 1832 Cholera Epidemic in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 1–16.
Watts, Liz, “Lydia Maria Child: Editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1841–43,” Journalism History, 35 (Spring 2009), 12–22.
Yasutake, Rumi, “How Did American and Japanese Gender Hierarchies Shape Japanese Women’s Participation in the Transnational wctu Movement in the 1880s?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 13 (March 2009), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1001325820.
Barbier, Brooke C., “Daughters of Liberty: Young Women’s Culture in Early National Boston” (Boston College, 2009). Order No. DA3349635.
Black, Linda L., “Female Community Leaders in Houston, Texas: A Study of the Education of Ima Hogg and Christia Daniels Adair” (Texas A&M University, 2008). Order No. DA3347887.
Block, Shelley R., “Nineteenth-Century Literary Women and the Temperance Tradition: Temperance Rhetoric in the Fiction of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007). Order No. DA3348998.
Burrows, Sara Eye, “‘Left to Our Fate’: South Carolina Women during the Civil War and Reconstruction” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3351684.
Chestnut, Trichita Marie, “Endangering Lynching: Women Activists and Victims of Lynchings and White Mob Violence in the United States, 1837–1946” (Howard University, 2009). Order No. DA3344866.
Click, Melissa A., “It’s ‘a Good Thing’: The Commodification of Femininity, Affluence, and Whiteness in the Martha Stewart Phenomenon” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3349715.
Compton, Tonia M, “Proper Women/Propertied Women: Federal Land Laws and Gender Order(s) in the Nineteenth-Century Imperial American West” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2009). Order No. DA3350371.
Edelstein, Sari, “The Novel and the News: Women’s Writing and the Politics of U.S. Print Cultures, 1792–1892” (Brandeis University, 2009). Order No. DA3352967.
Edgerton-Webster, Brenda Joyce, “The Tale of ‘Two Voices’: An Oral History of Women Communicators from Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 and a New Black Feminist Concept” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007). Order No. DA3353499.
Graham, Jane Robson, “The Ideally Active: Frances Willard’s Pedagogical Ministry” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3349895.
Hogan, Margaret A., “Sister Servants: Catholic Women Religious in Antebellum Kentucky” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3348859.
Kirkland, Melanie Anne Veach, “Daughters of Athena: American Women in the Military During World War II” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3352318.
Knaar, Mary L., “Faith, Frauen, and the Formation of an Ethnic Identity: German Lutheran Women in South And Central Texas, 1831-1890” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3344867.
LeFlouria, Talitha L, “Convict Women and Their Quest for Humanity: Examining Patterns of Race, Class, and Gender in Georgia’s Convict Lease and Chain Gang Systems, 1865–1917” (Howard University, 2009). Order No. DA3350303.
Lewis, Abigail Sara, “‘The Barrier Breaking Love of God’: The Multiracial Activism of the Young Women’s Christian Association, 1940s to 1970s” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349915.
Manion, Jennifer, “Women’s Crime and Prison Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1786–1829” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3350762.
Miller, John R., “The Pentecostal Feminism of Elizabeth V. Baker” (Regent University, 2009). Order No. DA3351254.
Mortimer, Allyn M., “Power in the Garden: Exploring the Lives of Missouri Farm Women and Their Vegetable Gardens during the Great Depression” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007). Order No. DA3351650.
Murillo, Cynthia Cupples, “The Transformative Power of the Double in American Women’s Gothic Fiction, 1870–1940” (University of New Mexico, 2008). Order No. DA3346578.
Nelson, Robert E., “American Antigone: Women, Education, Nation, 1800–1870” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3349924.
Othman, Enaya, “Middle Ground in the Middle East: American Quakers and Palestinian Women at the Friends Girls School in Ramallah, 1889–1948” (Marquette University, 2009). Order No. DA3357968.
Paugh, Katherine, “Rationalizing Reproduction: Race, Disease, and Fertility in the British Caribbean and the Atlantic World during the Age of Abolition, 1763–1833” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3346178.
Sharp, Jolly Kay, “‘Between the House and the Chicken Yard’: The Masks of Mary Flannery O’Connor” (Middle Tennessee State University, 2008). Order No. DA3347094.
Stevens, Jennifer Audrey, “Feminizing the Urban West: Green Cities and Open Space in the Postwar Era, 1950–2000” (University of California, Davis, 2008). Order No. DA3350794.
Willett, Adrian Schultze Buser, “Our House was Divided: Kentucky Women and the Civil War” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3344610.
Corbett, Christopher, The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West. (New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2010. xx, 218 pp. $24.00, isbn 978-0-8021-1909-4.)
Harris, Sharon M., Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1831–1919. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xii, 308 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4611-7.)
Joslin, Katherine, Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. xviii, 209 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-58465-779-8.)
Rauterkus, Cathleen Nista, Go Get Mother’s Picket Sign: Crossing Spheres with the Material Culture of Suffrage. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2010. viii, 87 pp. Paper, $19.99, isbn 978-0-7618-4788-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Rivers, Larry Eugene, and Canter Brown Jr., eds., The Varieties of Women’s Experiences: Portraits of Southern Women in the Post–Civil War Century. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xviii, 342 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3412-6.)
Smyth, J. E., Edna Ferber’s Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. xiv, 337 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-292-71984-2.)
Wardrop, Daneen, Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. xiv, 246 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-58465-780-4.)
Snyder, Lu Ann Faylor, and Phillip A. Snyder, eds., Post-manifesto Polygamy: The 1899–1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009. xiv, 196 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87421-739-1.)
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