Recent Scholarship
Women
Borneman, Amanda Midgley, “Mormon Rosies: Women and War Work in Manti,” Journal of Mormon History, 36 (Winter 2010), 73–91.
Bowman, Cynthia Grant, “Women in the Legal Profession from the 1920s to the 1970s: What Can We Learn from Their Experience about Law and Social Change?,” Maine Law Review, 61 (no. 1, 2009), 1–25.
Chang, Li-Wen, “Economics, Evolution, and Feminism in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Utopian Fiction,” Women’s Studies, 39 (June 2010), 319–48.
Crooms, Lisa A., “A Stone’s Throw to Justice: Liberty, Equality, and Women’s Rights in the Supreme Court Opinions of Justice Thurgood Marshall,” Howard Law Journal, 52 (Spring 2009), 559–82.
Fryer, Heather, “‘The Song of the Stitches’: Factionalism and Feminism at Tule Lake,” Signs, 35 (Spring 2010), 673–98.
Fulton, Crystal, “An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 2, 2010), 238–59.
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, “Muller v. Oregon: One Hundred Years Later,” Willamette Law Review, 45 (Spring 2009), 359–80.
Gold, David, “Students Writing Race at Southern Public Women’s Colleges, 1884–1945,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (May 2010), 182–203.
Gorski, Ashley, “The Author of Her Trouble: Abortion in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Judicial Discourses,” Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, 32 (Summer 2009), 431–62.
Graham, Susan, “‘A Warm Politition and Devotedly Attached to the Democratic Party’: Catharine Read Williams, Politics, and Literature in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Summer 2010), 253–78.
Guglielmo, Jennifer, “Transnational Feminism’s Radical Past: Lessons from Italian Immigrant Women Anarchists in Industrializing America,” Journal of Women’s History, 22 (Spring 2010), 10–33.
Hodgson, Louisa Jayne, “Transatlantic Little Women: Louisa May Alcott, the Woman Writer, and Literary Community,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) 23 (Summer 2009), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/issue23/hodgson.pdf.
Hoffert, Sylvia, “Private Secretaries in Early-Twentieth-Century America,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 7 (Spring 2010), 45–65.
Jones, Robert B., and Mark E. Byrnes, “The ‘Bitterest Fight’: The Tennessee General Assembly and the Nineteenth Amendment,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 (Fall 2009), 270–95. Heavily illustrated.
Kimball, Bruce A., and Brian S. Shull, “The Ironical Exclusion of Women from Harvard Law School, 1870–1900,” Journal of Legal Education, 58 (March 2008), 3–31.
La Barre, Kathryn, “Pauline Atherton Cochrane: Weaving Value from the Past,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 2, 2010), 210–37.
Lee, Chang Shin, “Yeoseongeui yukchaee daehan yeoseongeui geolli” (The woman’s right to the woman’s body: Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in the United States), Mikuthak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies, 40 (no. 2, 2008), 215–50. In Korean.
Mattis, Ann, “‘Vulgar Strangers in the Home’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Modern Servitude,” Women’s Studies, 39 (June 2010), 283–303.
McArthur, Judith N., and Harold L. Smith, “Not Whistling Dixie: Women’s Movements and Feminist Politics,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 133–56. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)
Montgomery, Rebecca S., “‘With the Brain of a Man and the Heart of a Woman’: Missouri Women and Rural Change, 1890–1915,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (April 2010), 159–78. Heavily illustrated.
Morgan, Anita J., “Land Ownership in Colonial New York: The Case of Eve Pickard,” New York History, 91 (Winter 2010), 5–23.
Netting, F. Ellen, Mary Katherine O’Connor, and David P. Fauri, “A Missing Tradition: Women Managing Charitable Organizations in Richmond, Virginia, 1805–1900,” Social Service Review, 83 (Dec. 2009), 557–84.
Pisapia, Michael Callaghan, “The Authority of Women in the Political Development of American Public Education, 1860–1930,” Studies in American Political Development, 24 (April 2010), 24–56.
Proffitt, Jennifer M., “War, Peace, and Free Radio: The Women’s National Radio Committee’s Efforts to Promote Democracy, 1939–1946,” Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 17 (Jan. 2010), 2–17.
Ransdell, Ann Daghistany, “Southern Gothic and Spatial Form in Naslund’s Four Spirits,” Women’s Studies, 39 (June 2010), 349–72.
Sartorius, Kelly C., “Experimental Autonomy: Dean Emily Taylor and the Women’s Movement at the University of Kansas,” Kansas History, 33 (Spring 2010), 2–21. Heavily illustrated.
Schurb, Ken, “The Service of Women in Congregational Offices, 1969 to 2007,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 82 (Fall 2009), 147–69.
Shemo, Connie, “‘How Better Could She Serve Her Country?’: Cultural Translators, U.S. Women’s History, and Kang Cheng’s ‘An Amazon in Cathay,’” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Winter 2009), 111–33.
Smith, Bonnie G., “Women’s History: A Retrospective from the United States,” Signs, 35 (Spring 2010), 723–47.
Smith, Linda C., and Carol Tenopir, “Martha E. Williams: Pioneer Information Scientist and Online Industry Guru,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 2, 2010), 185–209.
Sohn, Jeong Hee, “Flapper yoa 1920 nyeondae mikutmunwhaeui yeoseong image: Fitzgeraldreul jungshimeuiro” (The flapper as a cultural icon for American women of the 1920s in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works), Mikuthak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies, 41 (no. 2, 2009), 133–59. In Korean.
Sutrina, Katie, “The ‘Rosies’ of Rockford: Working Women in Two Rockford Companies in the Depression and World War II Eras,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 402–28.
Tunc, Tanfer Emin, “Talking Sex: Deciphering Dialogues of American Female Sexuality in the Mosher Survey, 1892–1920,” Journal of Women’s History, 22 (Spring 2010), 130–53.
Turpin, Andrea L., “The Ideological Origins of the Women’s College: Religion, Class, and Curriculum in the Educational Visions of Catharine Beecher and Mary Lyon,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (May 2010), 133–58.
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot, “Dorothy Jurney: A National Advocate for Women’s Pages as They Evolved and Then Disappeared,” Journalism History, 36 (Spring 2010), 13–22.
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot, “The Burden of Being First: Carol Sutton and the Courier-Journal,” American Journalism, 27 (Winter 2010), 117–43.
Watts, Liz, “Covering Eleanor Roosevelt: Associated Press Reporter Bess Furman and Four Years with the First Lady,” Journalism History, 36 (Spring 2010), 36–44.
Wiegand, Wayne A., and Sarah Wadsworth, “By Invitation Only: The American Library Association and the Woman’s Building Library of the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893,” Signs, 35 (Spring 2010), 699–722.
Williams, Robert V., “Madeline M. Henderson: From Chemical Information Science Pioneer to Architect of the New Information Science,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 45 (no. 2, 2010), 167–84.
Ziegler, Mary, “Eugenic Feminism: Mental Hygiene, the Women’s Movement, and the Campaign for Eugenic Legal Reform, 1900–1935,” Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, 31 (Winter 2008), 211–35.
Ziegler, Mary, “The Framing of a Right to Choose: Roe v. Wade and the Changing Debate on Abortion Law,” Law & History Review, 27 (Summer 2009), 281–330.
Adams, Ronald W., “A History of the Conversation on the Ordination of Women in the Lancaster Mennonite Conference” (Lancaster Theological Seminary, United States, 2009). Order No. DA3361038.
Anderson, Kristen Michelle, “‘Comic Venus’: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3355172.
Arnall, January Parkos, “‘Adventures into Camera-Land’: Women, Image-Making, and the Social Environment of Chicago Camera Clubs at the Turn-of-the-Century” (Claremont Graduate University, 2009). Order No. DA3361801.
Bennett, Laura Marie, “Equal Privilege of Service: Women, Missions, and Suffrage in America, 1870–1934” (Princeton University, 2009). Order No. DA3364529.
Brandt, Lauren Elizabeth, “‘Social Intercession’: The Religious Nature of Public Activism among American Women Reformers in Boston, 1892 to 1930” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365207.
Bennett Muhammad, Kathy Makeda, “Humble Warrioress: Women in the Nation of Islam; A Comparative Study, 1930–1975” (Union Institute, 2009). Order No. DA3361941.
Caldwell, Katrina Myers, “‘It Will Be Social’: Black Women Writers and the Postwar Era, 1945–1960” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3364592.
Christensen, Catherine, “Mujeres Publicas: Euro-American Prostitutes and Reformers at the California-Mexico Border, 1900–1929” (University of California, Irvine, 2009). Order No. DA3363316.
Cole, Carrie Jane, “‘She Will Not Submit to Be Ignored’: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Performing American Femininity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009). Order No. DA3359739.
Confortini, Catia Cecilia, “Imaginative Identification: Feminist Critical Methodology in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1945–1975)” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3355210.
Cooper, Brittney, “Race Women: The Politics of Black Female Leadership in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America” (Emory University, 2009). Order No. DA3360029.
D’Amore, Laura Mattoon, “American Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine since 1962” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3357804.
DeBaca, Michael Alvar, “Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture in the 1960s” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365238.
DeLongoria, Maria, “‘Stranger Fruit’: The Lynching of Black Women, the Cases of Rosa Richardson and Marie Scott” (University of Missouri, Columbia, 2006). Order No. DA3361122.
Dooley, Nora Ann, “The Beginning of Feminism in the South: An Examination of Southern Women Writing Civil War and Reconstruction Novels, Augusta Jane Evans to Ellen Glasgow” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2009). Order No. DA3355993.
Faehmel, Babette, “Before the Second Wave: College Women, Cultural Literacy, Sexuality, and Identity, 1940–1965” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3359135.
Forst, Jean, “Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women’s Fiction, 1850–1940” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2009). Order No. DA3362785.
Gibson, Judith Spofford, “Bridging the Charles: The First Women Graduates of the Harvard Business School, 1960–1965” (Drew University, 2009). Order No. DA3364857.
Graybill, Beth E., “Amish Women, Business Sense: Old Order Women Entrepreneurs in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Tourist Marketplace” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009). Order No. DA3359377.
Hairston, Monica, “The Wrong Place for the Right People? Café Society, Jazz, and Gender, 1938–1947” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3360477.
Healey, Christina, “Excavating the Landscapes of American Literature: Archaeology, Antiquarianism, and the Landscape in American Women’s Writing, 1820–1890” (University of New Hampshire, 2009). Order No. DA3363719.
Jang, Gyoung Sun, “The Sexual Politics of the Interwar Era Global Governance: Historicizing the Women’s Transnational Movements with(in) the League of Nations, 1919–1940” (Clark University, 2009). Order No. DA3357524.
Jedd, Sarah Meinen, “Reproducing Families: The Rhetoric of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1942–1973” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA3367794.
Jeffries, Bayyinah Sharief, “‘A Nation Can Rise No Higher than Its Women’: The Critical Role of Black Muslim Women in the Development and Purveyance of Black Consciousness, 1945–1975” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3363987.
Martin-Hondros, Emily Caroline, “The Female Body in America: Oppressive Embodiments, Options for Resistance” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3364719.
McMillan, Uri Gervase, “Subversive Objecthood: Black Female Performance” (Yale University, 2009). Order No. DA3361530.
Newman, Jennifer Ann, “Writing, Religion, and Women’s Identity in Civil War Alabama” (Auburn University, 2009). Order No. DA3365555.
Nieto, Adriana P., “From ‘Black-Eyed Girls’ to the mmu (Mujeres Metodistas Unidas): Race, Religion, and Gender in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” (University of Denver, 2009). Order No. DA3366177.
Nosco, Mary Lou, “The Last wacs: A Case Study of Women in Leadership Focusing on Women in the Last Direct Commissioning Class of the Women’s Army Corps” (Drake University, 2009). Order No. DA3361456.
Pando, Robert T., “Oveta Culp Hobby: A Study of Power and Control” (Florida State University, 2008). Order No. DA3358347.
Parker Brooks, Maegan, “From the Front Porch to the Platform: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA3367793.
Phillips, Megan Pater, “Model Citizens, Tangible Connections, and Compelling Narratives: Female Friendship and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3367122.
Pike, Kirsten M., “Girls Gone Liberated? Feminism and Femininity in Preteen Girls’ Media, 1968–1980” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3355714.
Prindle, Paige Ann, “Publishing, Property, and Problematic Heiresses: Representations of Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Popular Fiction” (University of California, San Diego, 2009). Order No. DA3355845.
Risk, Shannon M., “‘In Order to Establish Justice’: The Ninteenth-Century Woman Suffrage Movements of Maine and New Brunswick” (University of Maine, 2009). Order No. DA3364713.
Tillman, Kacy Dowd, “The Epistolary Salon: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Letter-Writing as a Vehicle for Female Authorship” (University of Mississippi, 2008). Order No. DA3358527.
Welch, Melanie K., “Politics and Poverty: Women’s Reproductive Rights in Arkansas, 1942–1980” (Auburn University, 2009). Order No. DA3365573.
Banaszak, Lee Ann, The Women’s Movement inside and outside the State. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi, 247 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-521-11510-0. Paper, $25.99, isbn 978-0-521-13286-2.)
Bilder, Mary Sarah, Maeva Marcus, and R. Kent Newmyer, eds., Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 287 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-49087-0.)
Buick, Kirsten Pai, Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. xxvi, 297 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4247-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4266-3.)
Cordery, Simon, Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. x, 213 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4810-4.)
Monahan, Evelyn M., and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, A Few Good Women: America’s Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (New York: Knopf, 2010. xviii, pp. $32.50, isbn 978-1-4000-4434-4.)
O’Brien, Michael, Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010. xvi, 364 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-374-21581-1.)
Black, Dawn Lea, and Alexander Yu. Petrov, trans. and eds., Natalia Shelikhova: Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010. l, 237 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-60223-073-6.)
Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury, eds., The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness, 1881–88. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. lii, 754 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03349-0.)
Minor, DoVeanna S. Fulton, and Reginald H. Pitts, eds., Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: Three African American Women’s Oral Slave Narratives. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. xiv, 317 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2965-6. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-4384-2964-9.)
Woodhull, Victoria C., Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics, ed. Cari M. Carpenter. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xlvi, 337 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1647-1.)
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