Recent Scholarship
Women
Allen, William Loyd, “‘Exquisite Powers’: Ann Baker Graves and Corinthia Read Williams, Obedient Revolutionaries,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Summer–Fall 2005), 100–111.
Bader, Mary Christine, “‘Sisters in Toil’: St. Paul’s First Union of Garment Workers,” Minnesota History, 60 (Spring 2006), 26–39.
Barlow, Tani E., et al., “The Modern Girl around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings,” Gender & History (Oxford), 17 (Aug. 2005), 245–94.
Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts, “An Understated Tale of Epic Social Change: Women’s Ordination 50 Years Ago and Now,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Fall–Winter 2005), 105–17. Heavily illustrated.
Birk, Megan, “Playing House: Training Modern Mothers at Iowa State College Home Management Houses, 1925–1958,” Annals of Iowa, 64 (Winter 2005), 37–66.
Birmingham, Elizabeth, “The Case of Marion Mahony Griffin and the Gendered Nature of Discourse in Architectural History,” Women’s Studies, 35 (March 2006), 87–123.
Bittel, Carla, “Science, Suffrage, and Experimentation: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Controversy over Vivisection in Late Nineteenth-Century America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Winter 2005), 664–94.
Blum, Edward, “‘Paul Has Been Forgotten’: Women, Gender, and Revivalism during the Gilded Age,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (July 2004), 247–70.
Brown, Candy Gunther, “Publicizing Domestic Piety: The Cultural Work of Religious Texts in the Woman’s Building Library,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 35–54.
Cavitch, Max, “Emma Lazarus and the Golem of Liberty,” American Literary History, 18 (Spring 2006), 1–28.
Chapman, Mary, “Are Women People? Alice Duer Miller’s Poetry and Politics,” American Literary History, 18 (Spring 2006), 59–85.
Cho, Ji-Hyung, “Privacy eui Euimi yeoa Seong eui Jeongchi” (The meanings of privacy and the politics of sexuality), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 19 (May 2004), 79–116. In Korean.
Ciani, Kyle E., “Hidden Laborers: Female Day Workers in Detroit, 1870–1920,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (Jan. 2005), 23–57.
Denney, Susan G., “The Woman Suffrage Movement in the Texas Panhandle, 1916–1920,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 77 (2004), 47–63.
Devine, Jenny Barker, “‘Quite a Ripple But No Revolution’: The Changing Roles of Women in the Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation, 1921–1951,” Annals of Iowa, 64 (Winter 2005), 1–36.
DuBois, Ellen Carol, “Three Decades of Women’s History,” Women’s Studies, 35 (Jan. 2006), 47–64.
DuBois, Ellen, “Through Women’s Eyes: The Challenges of Integrating Women’s History and U.S. History in the Writing of a College Textbook,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (March 2005), 7–9.
Ferrari, Mary, “‘Obliged to Earn Subsistence for Themselves’: Women Artisans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1763–1808,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (Oct. 2005), 235–55.
Frahm, Jill, “The Hello Girls: Women Telephone Operators with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (July 2004), 271–93.
Frederick, Bonnie, “Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Virtuous Mother: Argentina, 1852–1910,” Journal of Women’s History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 101–20.
Gallagher, Bernice E., “Illinois Women’s Novels at the Woman’s Building Library,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 109–32.
Gautier, Amina, “African American Women’s Writings in the Woman’s Building Library,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 55–84.
Giesberg, Judith Ann, “From Harvest Field to Battlefield: Rural Pennsylvania Women and the U.S. Civil War,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Spring 2005), 159–91.
Herzberg, David, “‘The Pill You Love Can Turn On You’: Feminism, Tranquilizers, and the Valium Panic of the 1970’s,” American Quarterly, 58 (March 2006), 79–103.
Hochman, Barbara, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the World’s Columbian Exposition,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 82–108.
Hoganson, Kristin, “What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Women and Foreign Relations History,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (March 2005), 14–18.
Hwang, Haesung, “‘Weeheomhan Yeosong’ Flapper: 1920 Nyondae Miguk Munwha Danmyun Ilgi” (“A Dangerous Woman,” Flapper: A reading on 1920s American culture), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 22 (Nov. 2005), 89–118. In Korean.
Johnson, Karen A., “Undaunted Courage and Faith: The Lives of Three Black Women in the West and Hawaii in the Early 19th Century,” Journal of African American History, 91 (Winter 2006), 4–22.
Klem, Amelia, “A Life of Her Own Choosing: Anna Gibbons’ Fifty Years as a Tattooed Lady,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 89 (Spring 2006), 28–39. Heavily illustrated.
Lee, Chang-Sin, “Buk America Wonjumin Yeoseong gwa Gender Gwangae” (Native North American women and gender relations), Migukhak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies (Seoul), 36 (Fall 2004), 242–64. In Korean.
Lee, Chang-Sin, “Gyeongjae Daegongwhanggi Gender Chaegaewa Miguk Yeoseong: Yeoseong Goyong Jeongcha gwa Jeongchi Network Hyeongseongeul Jungsimeuiro” (The gender system and American women in the economic depression era: The employment policy and women’s political networks), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 17 (May 2003), 121–46. In Korean.
Lee, Chang-Sin, “Miguk Seobu Gaechuk Sigieui Frontier Yeoseongdeulei kwanan Yeongu” (A study of frontier women during the westward movement in America), Migukhak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies (Seoul), 37 (Fall 2005), 155–88. In Korean.
Lundin, Anne, “Little Pilgrims’ Progress: Literary Horizons for Children’s Literature,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 133–52.
Maibor, Carolyn R., “Upstairs, Downstairs, and the In-Between: Louisa May Alcott on Domestic Service,” New England Quarterly, 79 (March 2006), 65–91.
McGuire, John Thomas, “Two Feminist Visions: Social Justice Feminism and Equal Rights, 1899–1940,” Pennsylvania History, 71 (Autumn 2004), 445–78.
Mobley, Kendal P., “Susan B. Anthony and Helen Barrett Montgomery: An Intergenerational Feminist Partnership,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Summer–Fall 2005), 80–90.
Park, Hyun-Sook, “Catherine Beecher eui Gyoyuk Gaehyuk” (Catherine Beecher’s educational reform), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 20 (Nov. 2004), 1–28. In Korean.
Phillips, Kimberly L., “Keeping a Record of Life: Women and Art during World War II,” oah Magazine of History, 19 (March 2005), 20–24.
Richards, Susan L., “Making Home Pay: Italian and Scottish Boardinghouse Keepers in Barre, 1880–1910,” Vermont History, 74 (Winter–Spring 2006), 48–66.
Rumbarger, Lee, “Housekeeping: Women Modernists’ Writing on War and Home,” Women’s Studies, 35 (Jan. 2006), 1–15.
Schuster, David G., “Personalizing Illness and Modernity: S. Weir Mitchell, Literary Women, and Neurasthenia, 1870–1914,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79 (Winter 2005), 695–722.
Schweitzer, Marlis, “‘The Mad Search for Beauty’: Actresses’ Testimonials, the Cosmetics Industry, and the ‘Democratization of Beauty,’” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (July 2005), 255–92.
Sheridan, Susan, “Adrienne Rich and the Women’s Liberation Movement: A Politics of Reception,” Women’s Studies, 35 (Jan. 2006), 17–45.
Sloane, David, “‘Not Designed Merely to Heal’: Women Reformers and the Emergence of Children’s Hospitals,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (Oct. 2005), 331–54.
Smoot, Pamela A., “Keep Your Hand on the Plow—Hold On: Black Baptist Women in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,” Baptist History & Heritage, 40 (Summer–Fall 2005), 28–39.
Sorby, Angela, “Symmetrical Womanhood: Poetry in the Woman’s Building Library,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 5–34.
Speltz, Mark, “An Interest in Health and Happiness as Yet Untold: The Woman’s Club of Madison, 1893–1917,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 89 (Spring 2006), 2–15. Heavily illustrated.
Terzian, Sevan G., “Science World, High School Girls, and the Prospect of Scientific Careers, 1957–1963,” History of Education Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2006), 73–99.
Todd, Emily B., “Afterword: The Woman’s Building Library and History,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 153–61.
Tolley, Kim, and Nancy Beadie, “Socioeconomic Incentives to Teach in New York and North Carolina: Toward a More Complex Model of Teacher Labor Markets, 1800–1850,” History of Education Quarterly, 46 (Spring 2006), 36–72.
Turner, John G., “The Power behind the Throne: Henrietta Mears and Post–World War II Evangelicalism,” Journal of Presbyterian History, 83 (Fall–Winter 2005), 141–57.
Unrue, Darlene Harbour, “Antonieta Rivas Mercado: Katherine Anne Porter’s Horror and Inspiration,” Journal of the Southwest, 47 (Winter 2005), 615–35.
Wadsworth, Sarah, ed., “The Woman’s Building Library of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893,” Libraries & Culture, 41 (Winter 2006), 1–167. Special issue.
Winchester, Juti A., “‘So Glad God Let Me Be an Outdoor Woman’: The Conservationist Writings of Sharlot Mabridth Hall,” Journal of the West, 44 (Fall 2005), 18–25. Heavily illustrated.
Wolfinger, James, “‘We Are in the Front Lines in the Battle for Democracy’: Carolyn Moore and Black Activism in World War II Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Winter 2005), 1–23.
Dorsey, Carol G., “Self-Fashioning (Im)possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178630.
Ford, Rebecca Reno, “A Fire in Her Bones: Autobiographical Accounts of Women’s Public Evangelism in Nineteenth-Century America” (Purdue University, 2005). Order No. DA3185756.
Hastak, Astrid, “‘I was never one of those Fräuleins’: The Impact of Cultural Image on German War Brides in America” (Purdue University, 2005). Order No. DA3185764.
Helgren, Jennifer Hillman, “Inventing American Girlhood: Gender and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Camp Fire Girls” (Claremont Graduate University, 2005). Order No. DA3179500.
Hobbs, Amy Laurel, “‘The world, our home’: The Rhetorical Vision of Women’s Clubs in American Literature, 1870–1920” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178591.
Knight, Misty Lynn Ellis, “From Private to Public Life: Rhetoric of First Ladies in Their First Year” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3180145.
Leroux, Karen, “Veterans of the Schools: Women’s Work in U.S. Public Education, 1865–1902” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177759.
Lewis-Mhoon, Abena, “Adorning Adversaries, Affecting Avenues: African American Women’s Impact on Adornment and Fashion Design in Washington, D.C., 1880–1950” (Howard University, 2005). Order No. DA3184880.
McGraw, Charles Dean, “‘Every nurse is not a sister’: Sex, Work, and the Invention of the Spanish-American War Nurse” (University of Connecticut, 2005). Order No. DA3180230.
Nista, Cathleen Barbara, “Go Get Mother’s Picket Sign: Crossing Spheres with the Material Culture of Suffrage” (University of California, Riverside, 2005). Order No. DA3179395.
Parris, Brandy, “Emotional Labor, Women’s Work, and Sentimental Capital in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction” (University of Washington, 2005). Order No. DA3178100.
Pittenger, Peach, “Women in American Popular Entertainment: Creating a Niche in the Vaudevillian Era, 1890s to 1930s” (Ohio State University, 2005). Order No. DA3177183.
Rider, Janet, “A Quest for Self: The Social and Intellectual World of Judith Sargent Murray” (University of Connecticut, 2005). Order No. DA3180248.
Rothman, Korey, “Somewhere There’s Music: Nancy Hamilton, the Old Girl’s Network, and the American Musical Theatre of the 1930s and 1940s” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3178609.
Rowley, Cathleen J., “Women’s Rights and Women’s Work: Politics and Professionalism in 19th Century American Fiction” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187422.
Schulle, Jennifer Marie, “Fashion and Fallen Women: The Apparel Industry, the Retail Trade, Fashion, and Prostitution in Late 19th-Century St. Louis” (Iowa State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184648.
Silva, Chandra, “Esto Perpetua: The Persistence and Transformation of Feminism in Idaho through the Struggle to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment” (Washington State University, 2005). Order No. DA3184170.
Slater, David Jeremiah, “The American Girl, Her Life and Times: An Ideal and Its Creators, 1890–1930” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3180026.
Smith, Judy Teresa, “Magnolia Matriarchs: Six Women’s Contributions to the Community Press in Mississippi” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3180161.
Swiontek, Danielle Jean, “With Ballots and Pocketbooks: Women, Labor, and Reform in Progressive California” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Order No. DA3186803.
Xiaohui, Chen, “Dangdai Meiguo huaren wenxue zhongde ‘ta’ xiezui: Dui Tang tingting, Tan enmei, Yan gelin degn huaren nv zuojia de duomian fenxi” (“She” in contemporary Chinese-American literature: Analysis of Chinese-American authors Tang Tingting, Tan Enmei, Yan Geling, and others) (Fujian Normal University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Berkin, Carol, Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence. (New York: Vintage, 2005. xviii, 194 pp. Paper, $13.95, isbn 1-4000-7532-7.)
Carney, Viriginia Moore, Eastern Band Cherokee Women: Cultural Persistence in Their Letters and Speeches. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. xviii, 230 pp. $32.00, isbn 1-57233-332-4.)
Garceau-Hagen, Dee, ed., Portraits of Women in the American West. (London: Routledge, 2005. xii, 273 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 0-415-94802-9. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-415-94803-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Kaufman, Polly Welts, National Parks and the Woman’s Voice: A History. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xxxviii, 312 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8263-3994-8.) Updated edition.
Porter, Karra, Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women’s Professional Basketball League, 1978–1981. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xvi, 336 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-8032-8789-5.)
Vivian, Octavia, Coretta: The Story of Coretta Scott King. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. xii, 126 pp. Cloth, $17.00, isbn 0-8006-3855-7. Paper, $10.00, isbn 0-8006-3853-0.) Heavily illustrated. Commemorative edition.
Field, Martha R., Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole, ed. Joan B. McLaughlin and Jack McLaughlin. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. xx, 236 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 1-57806-825-8. Paper, $20.00, isbn 1-57806-826-6.)
Freedman, Estelle B., Feminism, Sexuality, & Politics. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. x, 253 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-8078-3031-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5694-0.) Collected essays. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Freedman, Estelle B., “No Turning Back: The Historical Resilience of Feminism,” in Feminism, Sexuality, & Politics, by Estelle B. Freedman, 85–104. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. x, 253 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-8078-3031-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5694-0.)
Harrison, Kimberly, ed., A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xviii, 384 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8071-3143-1.)
Litoff, Judy Barrett, An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D’Albert-Lake. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xxxviii, 270 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8232-2581-X.)
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