Considering the state of U.S. women's history

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 145-163

  Cott, Nancy ^a   Lerner, Gerda ^a   Sklar, Kathryn Kish ^a   DuBois, Ellen ^a   Hewitt, Nancy ^a  

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EID: 43249198466     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2003.0019     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. Nancy Cott. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000).
2. Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and A Government (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001).
3. Gerda Lerner, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967)
4. and Sara M. Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Knopf, 1979).
5. Gerda Lerner, Black Women in White America: A Documentary History (New York: Pantheon, 1972).
6. Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
7. and Lillian Williams, Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community in Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).
8. Xiaolan Bao, Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-1992 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001).
9. Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999).
10. Rebecca Edwards, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997);
11. and Melanie Gustafson, Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1926 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001).
12. Elisabeth Israels Perry, Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
13. Judith N. McArthur, Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998);
14. Sarah Deutsch, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000);
15. and Gayle Gullet, Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880-1911 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000).
16. Jean H. Baker, Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Ithaca: N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983)
17. and Daniel Walker Howe, The Political Culture of American Whigs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
18. Paula Baker, "The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920," American Historical Review 89 (June 1984): 620-47,
19. and Paula Baker, Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
20. Edwards, Angels in the Machinery.
21. Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997).
22. Robin Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
23. Much of this work is comparative and transnational. See for instance, Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1930, ed. by Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Jane Lewis (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995).
24. Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (New York: Norton, 1986),
25. and Linda Kerber, No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998).
26. Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1800-1917 (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998);
27. Louise Newman, White Women's Rights: Racial Origins of American Feminism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998);
28. Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of American Feminism (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1987).
29. Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998);
30. and Laura Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
31. Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988).
32. Penny Von Eschen, Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997).
33. Kumkum Sangari and Suresh Vaid, "Recasting Women: An Introduction," in Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History ed. Kumkum Sangari and Suresh Vaid (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990): 18.
34. Eleanor Flexnor, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959);
35. Gerda Lerner, ed. Black Women in White America: A History in Documents (New York: Vintage Books, 1972);