WOMEN’S HISTORY BOOK LIST

Carolyn Niethammer, Daughters of the Earth
John & Donna Terrell, Indian Women of the Western Morning
Karen Anderson, Chain Her By One Foot:  The Subjugation of Native Women in
Seventeenth-Century New France
Silvia Van Kirk, Many Tender Ties:  Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870
Carol Devens, Countering Colonization:  Native American Women and Great Lakes
Missions, 1630-1900
Nancy Shoemaker, ed., Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native
American Women
Ramon A. Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away:  Marriage,
Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
Theda Purdue, Cherokee Women
Paula Gunn Allen, Pocahontas
Adela de la Torres & Beatriz Pesquera, eds., Building With Our Hands:  New Directions
in Chicana Studies
Alfredo Mirande & Evangelina Enriquez, La Chicana
Deena J. Gonzalez, Refusing the Favor:  The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe,
1820-1880
Julia Cherry Spruill, Women’s Life and Work in the Southern Colonies
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives
                                    A Midwife’s Tale
Catherine Clinton & Michele Gillespie, eds., The Devil’s Lane:  Sex and Race in the
Early South
Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers:  Gendered Power and the Forming
of American Society
                                  Liberty’s Daughters:  The Revolutionary Experience of American
                                          Women, 1750-1800
Kathleen M. Brown, Goodwives, Nasty Wenches, & Anxious Patriarchs:  Gender, Race,
and Power in Colonial Virginia
Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Women Before the Bar:  Gender, Law, and Society in
  Connecticut, 1639-1789
Carol Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman:  Witchcraft in Colonial New England
Elizabeth Pleck, Domestic Tyranny
Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood
                   The Grounding of Modern Feminism
Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic
                       No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies
Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress
Margaret Ripley Wolfe, Daughters of Canaan:  A Saga of Southern Women
Judith Walzer Leavitt, Brought to Bed:  Childbearing in America, 1750-1950
Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg
Deborah Gray White, “Ar’n’t I a Woman?”  Female Slaves in the Plantation South
                                  Too Heavy a Load:  Black Women in Defense of Themselves,
                                                1894-1994
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household
Shirley J. Yee, Black Women Abolitionists:  A Study in Activism, 1828-1860
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow:  Black Women, Work, and the
                                 Family from Slavery to the Present
Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter:  The Impact of Black Women on Race and
Sex in America
Sandra Myres, Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
Christine Stansell, City of Women
Thomas Dublin, Women at Work
Faye Dudden, Serving Women:  Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America
Glenna Matthews, “Just a Housewife”:  The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
Elizabeth Leonard, Yankee Women
Marilyn Culpepper, Trials and Triumphs:  The Women of the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention:  Women of the Slaveholding South in the
American Civil War
John & Robin Haller, The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America
Jane Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in 19th Century America
James C. Mohr, Abortion in America
Lois Banner, American Beauty
Ruth Bordin, Women and Temperance
Sarah Stage, Female Complaints
Mary Roth Walsh, “Doctors Wanted, No Women Need Apply”:  Sexual Barriers in the
Medical Profession, 1835-1975
Barbara Harris, Beyond Her Sphere:  Women and the Professions in American History
Tera Hunter, “To ‘Joy My Freedom”: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labor after the
Civil War
Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham, Righteous Discontent:  The Women’s Movement in the
Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920
Cynthia Neverdon-Morton, Afro-American Women of the South and the Advancement of
the Race, 1895-1925
Stephanie Shaw, What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do:  Black Professional Women
Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era
Glenda Riley, Divorce:  An American Tradition
Elaine Tyler May, Great Expectations:  Marriage & Divorce in Post-Victorian America
                            Homeward Bound:  American Families During the Cold War Era
Marsha Wedell, Elite Women and the Reform Impulse in Memphis, 1875-1915
Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars
Meredith Tax, The Rising of the Women:  Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-
1917
Julia Kirk Blackwelder, Now Hiring:  The Feminization of Work in the United States,
1900-1995
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements
Susan Porter Bensen, Counter Cultures:  Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in
American Department Stores, 1890-1940
Ruth Cowan, More Work for Mother
William Chafe, The American Woman
                       The Paradox of Change
Lynn Gordon, Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era
Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle
Annalise Orleck, “Common Sense and a Little Fire”:  Women and Working Class
Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, African-American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-
1920
Ann Gordon, ed., African-American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965
Rosalind Rosenberg, Beyond Separate Spheres:  Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism
Ruth Rosen, The Lost Sisterhood:  Prostitution in America, 1900-1918
Judith Schwarz, Radical Feminists of Heterodoxy:  Greenwich Village,1912-1940
John D’Emilio & Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters:  A History of Sexuality in
America
Ellen Rothman, Hands and Hearts:  A History of Courtship in America
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow
Jacqueline Dowd Hall, Revolt Against Chivalry
Linda Gordon, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right
Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body:  Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of
Liberty
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project
                                     Fasting Girls:  A History of Anorexia Nervosa
Judy Yung, Chinese Women of America
                  Unbound Feet:  A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
Susan Ware, Holding Their Own:  American Women in the 1930’s
Julia Blackwelder, Women of the Depression:  Caste and Culture in San Antonio,
1929-1939
Emily Yellin, Our Mothers' War:  American Women at Home and at the Front
during World War II
Sherna Berger Gluck, Rosie the Riveter Revisited
Elfrieda Shukert & Barbara Scibetta, War Brides of World War II
Susan Hartmann, The Home Front and Beyond
                           From Margin to Mainstream:  American Women and Politics since
1960
Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad:  Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975
Flora Davis, Moving the Mountain
Marcia Cohen, The Sisterhood
Sara Evans, Personal Politics:  The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights
Movement
Jo Freeman, The Politics of Women’s Liberation
Jennifer Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
Darlene Clark Hine, ed.,  Women in the Civil Rights Movement
(with others)                    “We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible:  A Reader in
Black Women’s History
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It
Tracy J. Fitzgerald, The National Council of Negro Women and the Feminist Movement
Lynne Olson, Freedom's Daughters
Elizabeth L. Kennedy & Madeline Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold:  The
History of a Lesbian Community
Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers:  A History of Lesbian Life in 20th
Century America
                           To Believe in Women:  What Lesbians Have Done for America--
a History
Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
Susan Faludi, Backlash
Jacob Marcus, The American Jewish Woman, 1654-1980
Hasia Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly, Her Words Praise Her:  A History of Jewish Women
in America from Colonial Times to the Present
Patricia Morton, Disfigured Images:  The Historical Assault on African-American
Women
Noliwe M. Rooks, Hair Raising:  Beauty, Culture, and African-American Women
Kathleen Barry, Susan B. Anthony
Gerda Lerner, The Grimke Sisters
Elizabeth Griffith, In Her Own Right:  A Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Philip Foner, Women and the American Labor Movement (2 vols., pick one)
Barbara Mayer Wertheimer, We Were There:  The Story of Working Women in America
Anne L. Macdonald, Feminine Ingenuity:  How Women Inventors Changed America