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Women's Studies



link to catalog page KATZ, Impressionist Subjects

Impressionist Subjects

Gender, Interiority, and Modernist Fiction in England

Author: Tamar Katz
Pub Date: November 2000

Impressionist Subjects looks at the way modernist writers wrote about how the mind works, and connects those ideas to the way that women moved into public life in the early 20th century.   learn more...

link to catalog page LINN, Jane Addams

Jane Addams

A Biography

Author: James Weber Linn Introduction by Anne Firor Scott
Pub Date: 2000

One of the finest--and most complete--biographies of Jane Addams ever written   learn more...

link to catalog page MOISALA, Music and Gender Author: Edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond
Pub Date: 2000

International scholars engage in a conversation about music and gender in various cross-culture case studies in an effort to determine how music can help individuals, groups, and nations bridge difficult times of changing values.   learn more...

link to catalog page HICKOK, One Third of a Nation

One Third of a Nation

Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression

Author: Lorena Hickok
Pub Date: 2000

Vividly and compassionately portrays the same heartrending devastation, sorrow, and quiet heroism of the Depression that Steinbeck depicted in Grapes of Wrath and that Woody Guthrie evoked in his songs of the common people.   learn more...

link to catalog page DESLIPPE,

"Rights, Not Roses"

Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80

Author: Dennis A. Deslippe
Pub Date: 2000

An insightful study of working-class feminism, raising important questions about the meaning of equality for them, their connections to their unions, and the gendered nature of equal rights.   learn more...

link to catalog page EDWARDS, Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Southern Women in the Civil War Era

Author: Laura F. Edwards
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2004

Reveals a fascinating, more complete portrait of the women and women’s roles, political and social, that reach far beyond the air-headed, passive stereotypes of the slave and Southern Belle   learn more...

link to catalog page MILLETT, Sexual Politics Author: Kate Millett
Pub Date: 2000

One of, if not the most important works on women’s liberation, this book is once again back in print and is an essential piece of twentieth-century history and politics   learn more...

link to catalog page PHELPS, Three Spiritualist Novels Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Pub Date: 2000

A fascinating trilogy of novels that delineates the afterlife as viewed from the “Spiritualist” perspective--a movement that was very strong in the 19th century and still has adherents today   learn more...

link to catalog page LAAS, Wartime Washington

Wartime Washington

The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee

Author: Edited by Virginia Jeans Laas
Pub Date: 2000

A fascinating and rare insight into the life and world of Civil War-time Washington from the woman’s perspective, this collection of letters is an invaluable perspective on life in the nation’s capital during an important period in American history.   learn more...

link to catalog page HARRISON, African-American Pioneers in Anthropology Author: Edited by Ira E. Harrison and Faye V. Harrison
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 1999

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