Recent Scholarship
Women
Baer, Judith A., “Women’s Rights and the Constitution,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 57–66.
Balcom, Karen, et al., “Roundtable: Babies across Borders: Problems for Women’s History in the Study of Transborder Adoption,” Journal of Women’s History, 19 (no. 1, 2007), 105–50.
Balliet, Barbara J., “‘Let Them Study as Men and Work as Women’: Georgina Davis, New Women, and Illustrated Papers,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Bunker, Gary L., “The Art of Condescension: Postbellum Caricature and Woman Suffrage,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Clinton, Catherine, “Wife versus Widow: Clashing Perspectives on Mary Lincoln’s Legacy,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 28 (Winter 2007), 1–19.
Davis, Rebecca, “Overcoming the ‘Defect of Sex’: Georgia Women’s Fight for Access to Jury Service,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2007), 49–69.
Hoff, Joan, “American Women and the Lingering Implications of Coverture,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 41–55.
Ikard, Robert W., “The Cultivation of Higher Ideals: The Centennial Club of Nashville,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006–2007), 342–69. Heavily illustrated.
Poole, Leslie Kemp, “The Women of the Early Florida Audubon Society: Agents of History in the Fight to Save State Birds,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Winter 2007), 297–323.
Richardson, Todd H., “Publishing the Cause of Suffrage: The Woman’s Journal’s Appropriation of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Postbellum America,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Dec. 2006), 578–608.
Schnittker, Jason, “Working More and Feeling Better: Women’s Health, Employment, and Family Life, 1974–2004,” American Sociological Review, 72 (April 2007), 221–38.
Scott, Anne Firor, “Gertrude Weil and Her Times,” Southern Cultures, 13 (Spring 2007), 87–102.
Snider, Christy Jo, “Planning for Peace: Virginia Gildersleeve at the United Nations Conference on International Organization,” Peace & Change, 32 (April 2007), 168–85.
Tong, Rosemarie, “Feminist Thought in Transition: Never a Dull Moment,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 23–39.
Tong, Rosemarie, et al., “Special Collection: Issues in Women’s Studies,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 23–97.
Whitney, Allison, “Race, Class, and the Pressure to Pass in the American Maternal Melodrama: The Case of Stella Dallas,” Journal of Film and Video, 59 (Spring 2007), 3–18.
Alexander, Nancy Payne, “‘Keeping house’: The Hidden Economy of Maine Coastal Women, 1850–1900” (University of Maine, 2006). Order No. DA3220682.
Brautbar, Shirli, “‘Not just ladies that lunch’: Hadassah and the Formation of American Jewish Identity” (University of Southern California, 2005). Order No. DA3220087.
Geurink, Jean, “The Rural Isolation Myth: Historical Changes in the Roles of Wisconsin Farm Women” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222914.
Graham, Susan H., “‘Call me a female politician, I glory in the name!’: Women Dorrites and Rhode Island’s 1842 Suffrage Crisis” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220002.
Leonard, Lynnette Grace, “A Rebel in Conservative Clothes: The Rhetorical Theory and Practice of Lydia Sigourney” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222185.
Smith, Steven L., “The Reluctant Sorority: Stories of American Wives of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, 1965–1973. Lessons in Exercising Leadership in the Absence of Power” (University of San Diego, 2006). Order No. DA3218197.
Tencza, Elizabeth Jane, “Serving Two Masters: The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and the Slander Campaign of 1943” (George Washington University, 2006). Order No. DA3217555.
Clayton, John, The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xii, 321 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-5990-4.)
DuBois, Ellen Carol, and Richard Cándida Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. viii, 328 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-1981-7. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-8147-1982-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Eickhoff, Diane, Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women’s Rights. (Kansas City, Kans.: Quindaro, 2006. 277 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 0-9764434-4-9.)
Hoy, Suellen, Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago’s Past. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xvi, 242 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 0-252-03057-5. Paper, $22.00, isbn 0-252-07301-0.)
Lewis, Nghana Tamu, Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women’s Writing, 1920–1945. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xvi, 208 pp. $37.95, isbn 978-58729-529-4.)
Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Women in Congress, 1917–2006. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 2006. viii, 1,008 pp. $59.00, isbn 0-16-076753-9.)
Ware, Carolyn E., Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03138-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07377-9.)
Green, Elna C., ed., Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women’s Letters during the Great Depression. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 243 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-658-3.)
Milewski, Melissa Lambert, ed., Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. xiv, 639 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87421-644-8.)
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