Recent Scholarship
Women
Barker-Ruchti, Natalie, “Ballerinas and Pixies: A Genealogy of the Changing Female Gymnastics Body,” International Journal of the History of Sport (London), 26 (Jan. 2009), 45–62.
Brandimarte, Cynthia, “Women on the Home Front: Hostess Houses during World War I,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Winter 2008), 201–22.
DuBois, Ellen Carol, “Seneca Falls in Santa Cruz: Eliza W. Farnham and the Varieties of Women’s Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century California,” Common-Place, 9 (Jan. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Fuchs-Abrams, Sabrina, “Women on War: Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, and Diana Trilling Debate the Vietnam War,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Dec. 2008), 987–1007.
Haines, Michael R., and Avery M. Guest, “Fertility in New York State in the Pre–Civil War Era,” Demography, 45 (May 2008), 345–61.
Hogan, Lisa Shawn, “The Politics of Feminist Autobiography: Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Eighty Years and More as Ideological Manifesto,” Women’s Studies, 38 (Jan. 2009), 1–22.
McMurray, David, “Rivaling the Gentleman in the Gentle Art: The Authority of the Victorian Woman Angler,” Sport History Review, 39 (Nov. 2008), 99–126.
Barker Devine, Jenny, “‘Our Cherished Ideals’: Rural Women, Activism, and Identity in the Midwest, 1950–1990” (Iowa State University, 2008). Order No. DA3307061.
Blair, Melissa Anna Estes, “Women’s Organizations and Grassroots Politics: Denver, Durham, and Indianapolis, 1960–1975” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3312197.
Bowers, Kimberly Paige, “Misreading Justice: The Rhetoric of Revenge in Feminist Texts about Domestic Violence” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3307346.
Browder, Dorothea, “From Uplift to Agitation: Working Women, Race, and Coalition in the Young Women’s Christian Association, 1908–1950” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314380.
Bui, Diem-My Thi, “Embodiments of Difference: Representations of Vietnamese Women in the U.S. Cultural Imaginary” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314969.
Chung, Nogin, “Picturing American Women: Popular Culture Images of Postwar Womanhood in the United States” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3313431.
Cini, Carol Frances, “Making Women’s Rights Matter: Diverse Activists, California’s Commission on the Status of Women, and the Legislative and Social Impact of a Movement, 1962–1976” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3304665.
Coulombe, Lauri Donna, “‘If These Walls Could Talk’: The Semiotics of Domestic Objects and the Expression of Ipseity in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Literature” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309849.
Decker, Stefanie Lee, “The Mask of the Southern Lady: Virginia Foster Durr, Southern Womanhood, and Reform” (Oklahoma State University, 2007). Order No. DA3304192.
Dunlap, Tameka L., “Washington’s Sweetheart: Nannie Helen Burroughs” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3304467.
Field, Corinne T., “Woman’s Rights and the Politics of Adulthood in the United States, 1792–1939” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3317547.
Gillespie, Deanna M., “‘They Walk, Talk, and Act like New People’: Black Women and the Citizenship Education Program, 1957–1970” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3307992.
Hsu, Shih-szu, “Manifest Domesticity in Times of Love and War: Gender, Race, Nation, and Empire in the Works of Louisa May Alcott, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Gertrude Atherton, and Pauline Hopkins” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3307326.
Kang, Sooyoung, “Tracing the Maternal: Memory and Writing in Contemporary American Women Writers of the Diaspora” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3307659.
Kinslow, Carolyn Lindsey, “Attempting Things beyond Us: Belva Lockwood and 19th Century Rhetorics of Repression” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3297953.
Koenig Richards, Cindy, “The Awakening: Rhetoric and the Rise of New Women in the New Northwest, 1868–1912” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3303641.
Lansbury, Jennifer H., “Champions Indeed: The Emergence of African American Women Athletes in American Society, 1930–1960” (George Mason University, 2008). Order No. DA3313515.
Marcinkus, Andrea Kolasinski, “Nature Fancywork: Women’s Discourse with Nature through Craft in late Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314170.
McAndrew, Jennifer Malia, “All-American Beauty: The Experiences of African American, European American, and Japanese American Women with Beauty Culture in the Mid-twentieth Century United States” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307835.
Melina, Lois Ruskai, “Beyond Sisterhood and Superwoman: Alternative Narratives of Women in the 1970s” (Gonzaga University, 2008). Order No. DA3306794.
Mowery, Christine E., “The Impact of National Resources on State Woman Suffrage Outcomes: A Re-examination of the Resource Mobilization Framework” (Vanderbilt University, 2006). Order No. DA3306824.
Olsen, Margaret Nunnelley, “One Nation, One World: American Clubwomen and the Politics of Internationalism, 1945–1961” (Rice University, 2008). Order No. DA3309934.
Pilon, Nancy Nygard, “Women’s Athletics at the University of Kansas during the Progressive Era, 1890–1920” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3303997.
Radle, Carol Ann, “Vassar College and the 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act: The Impact of the G.I. Bill on Women College Students” (Marywood University, 2008). Order No. DA3312634.
Reilly, Kimberley A., “Sex without Spheres: Labor, Marriage, and Citizenship in the Era of the New Woman” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3309097.
Saldivar Hodgson, Maria Nicolasa, “A Content Analysis of Leadership Language in Selected Speeches Communicated by America’s First Ladies Hillary Rodham Clinton and Laura Welch Bush” (Our Lady of the Lake University, 2007). Order No. DA3309537.
Strassel, Annemarie Elizabeth, “Redressing Women: Feminism in Fashion and the Creation of American Style, 1930–1960” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317280.
Stur, Heather Marie, “Dragon Ladies, Gentle Warriors, and Girls Next Door: Gender and Ideas That Shaped the Vietnam War” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3314310.
Sy, Kadidia, “Women’s Relationships: Female Friendship in Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula’ and ‘Love,’ Mariama Ba’s ‘So Long a Letter,’ and Sefi Atta’s ‘Everything Good Will Come’” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3308463.
Bartlett, Marie, The Frontier Nursing Service: America’s First Rural Nurse-Midwife Service and School. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. x, 250 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3342-1.)
Berkin, Carol, Margaret S. Crocco, and Barbara Winslow, eds., Clio in the Classroom: A Guide for Teaching U.S. Women’s History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv, 318 pp. Cloth, $99.00, isbn 978-0-19-532012-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-19-532013-8.)
Feld, Marjorie N., Lillian Wald: A Biography. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. x, 303 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3236-3.)
Gunter, Susan E., Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xx, 422 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8032-169-6.)
Hawkins, Carol Hooks, American Women Leaders: 1,560 Current Biographies. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. x, 406 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3847-1.)
Herbst, Jurgen, Women Pioneers of Public Education: How Culture Came to the Wild West. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xii, 217 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60835-1.)
McDonnell, Jeanne Farr, Juana Briones of Nineteenth-Century California. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. xiv, 258 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8165-2586-7. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8165-2587-4.)
More, Ellen S., Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry, eds., Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xvi, 357 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9037-6. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9038-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Morin, Karen M., Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xiv, 278 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3167-5.)
Regis, Margaret, When Our Mothers Went to War: An Illustrated History of Women in World War II. (Bellingham: NavPublishing, 2008. 175 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-879932-05-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Rich, Charlotte J., Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. x, 230 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1826-1.)
Burton, Gabrielle, Searching for Tamsen Donner. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 314 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2285-4.)
Hartley, James E., ed., Mary Lyon: Documents and Writings. (South Hadley: Doorlight, 2008. xx, 398 pp. Cloth, $36.00, isbn 978-0-9778372-6-7. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-0-9778372-5-0.)
Houck, Davis W., and David E. Dixon, eds., Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xx, 322 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-107-1.)
Pieschel, Bridget Smith, ed., Golden Days: Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xxiv, 411 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-60473-097-5.)
Yano, Fleur, and Saralyn Daly, eds., Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 265 pp. $42.00, isbn 978-0-252-03380-3.)
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