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Women in American History


Acquiring Editor: Dawn Durante
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.


link to catalog page , No Votes for Women

No Votes for Women

The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement

Author: Susan Goodier
Pub Date: April 2013

An evenhanded look at the women who fought not to vote   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: Cloth: 2011; Paper: February 2013

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

link to catalog page , Cold War Progressives

Cold War Progressives

Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom

Author: Jacqueline Castledine
Pub Date: December 2012

Reconfiguring women's activism in the Cold War era   learn more...

link to catalog page , Rape in Chicago

Rape in Chicago

Race, Myth, and the Courts

Author: Dawn Rae Flood
Pub Date: June 2012

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

link to catalog page , Black Women and Politics in New York City Author: Julie A. Gallagher
Pub Date: June 2012

Black women as liberal reformers, from suffrage to civil rights   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: Cloth: 2007; Paper: 2010

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: March 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: Cloth: 2007; Paper: 2010

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: Cloth: ; Paper: 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: January 2009

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

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