Recent Scholarship
Women
Arrizabalaga, Marie-Pierre, “L’emigration des Pyrénéennes en Amérique du Nord aux XIXe et Xxe siécles” (Emigration of women from the Pyrenees to North America in the 19th and 20th centuries), Social History (Toronto), 40 (Nov. 2007), 269–96. In French.
Carr, Jacqueline Barbara, “Marketing Gentility: Boston’s Businesswomen, 1780–1830,” New England Quarterly, 82 (March 2009), 25–55.
Cuba, Stan, “Women Printing Colorado, 1871–2001,” Colorado Heritage (Autumn 2008), 26–49. Heavily illustrated.
Foster, Amy, “The Gendered Anniversary: The Story of America’s Women Astronauts,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Fall 2008), 150–73.
Gustafson, Anita Olson, “‘We Hope to Be Able to Do Some Good’: Swedish-American Women’s Organizations in Chicago,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (Oct. 2008), 178–201.
Hay, Amy M., “Recipe for Disaster: Motherhood and Citizenship at Love Canal,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Spring 2009), 111–34.
Hyman, Colette A., “Survival at Crow Creek, 1863–1866,” Minnesota History, 61 (Winter 2008–2009), 148–61.
Leroux, Karen, “‘Unpensioned Veterans’: Women Teachers and the Politics of Public Service in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Spring 2009), 34–62.
Ouellette, Susan M., “Religion and Piety in the Journal of Phebe Orvis,” Vermont History, 77 (Winter–Spring 2009), 6–15.
Simon, Katie, “Mary Baker Eddy’s Pragmatic Transcendental Feminism,” Women’s Studies, 38 (June 2009), 377–98.
Stevenson, Brenda E., “The Question of the Slave Female Community and Culture in the American South: Methodological and Ideological Approaches,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 74–95.
Bell, Ramona J., “Competing Identities: Representations of the Black Female Sporting Body from 1960 to the Present” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3318265.
Crail-Rugotzke, Donna, “The Treatment of Minorities and Women by Southwestern Courts and Prisons” (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2008). Order No. DA3319138.
Cuesta-Vélez, Cecilia, “The Northamerican Metaphor: Film, Literature, and Society in the Chronicles of Elisa Lerner” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007). Order No. DA3318670.
Dorsey, Janine Davis, “Episcopal Women Missionaries as Cultural Intermediaries in Interior Alaska Native Villages, 1894–1932” (University of New Mexico, 2008). Order No. DA3318091.
Grimes, Sharon E., “Women in the Studios of Men: Gender, Architectural Practice, and the Careers of Sophia Hayden Bennett and Marion Mahony Griffin, 1870–1960” (Saint Louis University, 2007). Order No. DA3324165.
Gwinn, Kristen E., “‘Peace Is Too Small a Word’: The Life and Ideas of Emily Greene Balch” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3315398.
Hill, Kimberly DeJoie, “Careers across Color Lines: American Women Missionaries and Race Relations, 1870–1920” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3315642.
Monrreal, Sahar Hayal, “Woman, Nation, Food: Domesticity and the Imperial Project in Ladies’ Home Journal Food Advertising, 1898–1899” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3321923.
Wilson, Kellie Darice (Zenzele Isoke), “The Political Spaces of Black Women in the City: Identity, Agency, and the Flow of Social Capital in Newark, N.J.” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3319703.
Wrisley, Melyssa, “Fashioning a New Femininity: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Discourses of Dress, Gender, and Sexuality, 1875–1930” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 200l). Order No. DA3315233.
Cairns, Kathleen A., Hard Time at Tehachapi: California’s First Women’s Prison. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. x, 205 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4572-1.)
Fisher, Linda A., and Carrie Bowers, Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xxvi, 385 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3983-8.)
Freidenfelds, Lara, The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 242 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9245-5.)
Goren, Lilly J., ed., You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. x, 289 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2544-2.)
Lerner, Gerda, Living with History/Making Social Change. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. x, 234 pp. $32.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3293-6.)
Lintelman, Joy K., I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009. x, 294 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-97351-636-5.)
Owen, Barb, Making the Grade: Plucky Schoolmarms of Kittitas Country. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2008. xiv, 190 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87422-299-9.)
Smith, Christine Hill, Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2009. xviii, 213 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-764-0.)
Strebe, Amy Goodpaster, Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xviii, 109 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-59797-266-6.)
Sturtevant, Victoria, A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 194 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03428-2. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07622-0.)
Taylor, Kelly S., The Lady Actress: Recovering the Lost Legacy of a Victorian American Superstar. (Los Angeles: Wapshott, 2009. 245 pp. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-615-26250-5.)
Temple, Judy Nolte, Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xx, 260 pp. Cloth, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3825-1. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4035-3.)
Adkison, Jennifer Dawes, ed., Across the Plains: Sarah Royce’s Western Narrative. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. x, 134 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8165-2726-7.)
Baird, Nancy Disher, ed., Josie Underwood’s Civil War Diary. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xviii, 262 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2531-2.)
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave, Yucatán through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xxviii, 387 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8263-4595-0.)
Sklar, Kathryn Kish, and Beverly Wilson Palmer, The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869–1931. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. lxii, 575 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03404-6.)
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