Series Women in American History

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Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage (Women in American History)
Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (Women in American History)
Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880-1911
Better Than Second Best: Love and Work in the Life of Helen Magill
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Beyond the typewriter : gender, class, and the origins of modern American office work, 1900-1930
Black Women and Politics in New York City
Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920
The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900
I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl
The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women
Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46 (Women in American History)
Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism
Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom (Women in American History)
Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928
Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918
Demanding Child Care: Women's Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971
Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century
The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930
Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States
For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Friends and Sisters: Letters between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93
Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920
A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina
In a Generous Spirit: A First-Person Biography of Myra Page
Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923
Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South (Women in American History)
Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March (Women in American History)
Lucretia Mott speaks : the essential speeches and sermons
The Making of "Mammy Pleasant": A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41
Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80
Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930
Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History
No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement (Women in American History)
Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps (Women in American History)
Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860
Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933
Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.
Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912
Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts (Women in American History)
Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville
Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League
Reinventing Marriage: The Love & Work of Alice Freeman Palmer & George Herbert Palmer
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Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage (Women in American History) by Trisha Franzen 11 copies
Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias by Susan E. Cayleff 47 copies
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (Women in American History) by Tiffany M. Gill 33 copies
Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880-1911 by Gayle Gullett 7 copies
Better Than Second Best: Love and Work in the Life of Helen Magill by Glenn C. Altschuler 2 copies
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper 99 copies, 1 review
Beyond the typewriter : gender, class, and the origins of modern American office work, 1900-1930 by Sharon Hartman Strom 12 copies
Black Women and Politics in New York City by Julie A. Gallagher 4 copies
Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 by Lara Vapnek 15 copies
The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900 by Kathleen Waters Sander 7 copies
I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl by Hilda Polacheck 41 copies
The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women by Sara Alpern 16 copies
Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46 (Women in American History) by Nancy Marie Robertson 5 copies
Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism by George C. Rable 53 copies
Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom (Women in American History) by Jacqueline Castledine 5 copies
Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. by Treva B. Lindsey 24 copies
The Common Ground of Womanhood: Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928 by Priscilla Murolo 7 copies
Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918 by Judith N. McArthur 7 copies
Demanding Child Care: Women's Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971 by Natalie M. Fousekis 9 copies
Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century by Dorothy Sue Cobble 31 copies
The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 by Wendy Gamber 14 copies
Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States by Stephanie Gilmore 15 copies
For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Chana Kai Lee 137 copies, 1 review
Friends and Sisters: Letters between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93 by Carol Lasser 12 copies
Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction by Laura F. Edwards 44 copies
Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920 by Maureen Fitzgerald 18 copies
A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina by Leslie A. Schwalm 39 copies
In a Generous Spirit: A First-Person Biography of Myra Page by Christina Looper Baker 3 copies
Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923 by Stephen H. Norwood 14 copies
Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South (Women in American History) by Sarah H. Case 4 copies
Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March (Women in American History) by Deborah Gray White 10 copies
Lucretia Mott speaks : the essential speeches and sermons by Lucretia Mott 7 copies, 1 review
The Making of "Mammy Pleasant": A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Lynn M. Hudson 20 copies
Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by Melinda Chateauvert 20 copies
Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41 by Mary Murphy 24 copies
Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80 by Marli F. Weiner 15 copies
Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930 by Molly Ladd-Taylor 28 copies
Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History by Anne Firor Scott 50 copies
No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement (Women in American History) by Susan Goodier 13 copies
Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps (Women in American History) by Charissa J. Threat 12 copies
Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860 by Sylvia D. Hoffert 9 copies
Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933 by Alison M. Parker 13 copies, 1 review
Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. by Anne M. Valk 19 copies
Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 by Ardis Cameron 42 copies
Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts (Women in American History) by Dawn Rae Flood 8 copies
Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville by Sonya Ramsey 3 copies
Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League by Elizabeth Payne 9 copies
Reinventing Marriage: The Love & Work of Alice Freeman Palmer & George Herbert Palmer by Lori Kenschaft 2 copies
Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (Women in American History) by Marcia Walker-McWilliams 13 copies, 1 review
The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention by Judith Wellman 44 copies, 4 reviews
Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott by Lucretia Coffin Mott 10 copies, 1 review
Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality by Joanne E. Passet 10 copies
Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s by Nancy A. Hewitt 17 copies
Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865 by Christine Jacobson Carter 9 copies
Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia by Daina Ramey Berry 27 copies
U.S. Women in Struggle: A Feminist Studies Anthology by Claire Goldberg Moses 6 copies
Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism by Nancy A. Hewitt 21 copies
We, too, are Americans : African American women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54 by Megan Taylor Shockley 7 copies
When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing by Roberta Gold 6 copies, 1 review
Widows and orphans first the family economy and social welfare policy, 1880-1939 by S. J. Kleinberg 4 copies
Winter Friends: Women Growing Old in the New Republic, 1785-1835 by Terri L. Premo 10 copies
Women against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) by Karissa Haugeberg 21 copies, 1 review
Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924 by Melanie Susan Gustafson 6 copies
Women doctors in gilded-age Washington : race, gender, and professionalization by Gloria Moldow 7 copies
The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the politics of maternalism, 1920-30 by Jan Doolittle Wilson 4 copies
Working Women of Collar City: Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, 1864-86 by Carole Turbin 16 copies
Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96 by Carolyn De Swarte Gifford 19 copies

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Acquiring Editor: Laurie MathesonSeries Editors: Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray WhiteWomen 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.From the University of Illinois Press series pageLT is missing:Reinventing marriage : the love and work of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer by Lori Kenschaft (2005);Widows and orphans first : the family economy and social welfare policy, 1880-1939 by S.J. Kleinberg (2005);The Women’s Joint Congressional Committee and the politics of maternalism, 1920-30 by Jan Doolittle Wilson (2007) (English, Unclassified)

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