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Women in American History


Acquiring Editor: Laurie Matheson
Series Editors: Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White

Women in American History seeks to publish books that address the varieties of American women's experiences across race, region, class, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and other categories of identity and difference. The series editors welcome projects that are explicitly comparative in focus and those that provide in-depth explorations of particular groups, institutions, events, and eras.


Rape in Chicago

Race, Myth, and the Courts

Author: Dawn Rae Flood
Pub Date: 6/1/2012

Evolving strategies against rape in Chicago courts   learn more...

Author: Julie A. Gallagher
Pub Date: 6/1/2012

Black women as liberal reformers, from suffrage to civil rights   learn more...

link to catalog page , Demanding Child Care

Demanding Child Care

Women’s Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971

Author: Natalie M. Fousekis
Pub Date: 2011

A revealing study of early child care political action and advocates in California   learn more...

link to catalog page , “Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe”

“Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe”

Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

Author: Daina Ramey Berry
Pub Date: Paper, 2010; Cloth, 2007

Examining how labor and economy shaped family life for both women and men among the enslaved   learn more...

link to catalog page , Beauty Shop Politics

Beauty Shop Politics

African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry

Author: Tiffany M. Gill
Pub Date: 2010

A bold reassessment of black beauty salons as vital sites for social change   learn more...

link to catalog page , Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46 Author: Nancy Marie Robertson
Pub Date: Paper, 2010; Cloth, 2007

Black and white women's struggles over race relations in the YWCA and beyond   learn more...

link to catalog page , Radical Sisters

Radical Sisters

Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.

Author: Anne M. Valk
Pub Date: 2010

How racial and class differences influenced the modern women's movement   learn more...

link to catalog page , Southern Single Blessedness

Southern Single Blessedness

Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865

Author: Christine Jacobson Carter
Pub Date: 2009

The engaging lives that single women led in spite of (or perhaps because of) their "spinsterhood"   learn more...

link to catalog page , Breadwinners

Breadwinners

Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920

Author: Lara Vapnek
Pub Date: 2009

Recasting the meaning of women's work in the early fight for gender equality   learn more...

link to catalog page , Feminist Coalitions

Feminist Coalitions

Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States

Author: Edited by Stephanie Gilmore
Pub Date: 2008

A fresh new look at the productive partnerships forged among second-wave feminists   learn more...

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