Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Start Over Subject History Era 18th Century

1. The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had

Author: Helen Rappaport
Publication date: 2025

2. Abortion in Mexico: A History

Author: Nora E. Jaffary
Publication date: 2024

3. Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830

Editor: Cristina S. Martinez and Cynthia E. Roman
Publication date: 2024

4. History, Women, and Gender in the Modern Middle East: From Orientalism to the Arab Spring

Editor: Lisa Pollard and Mona L. Russell
Publication date: 2024

5. The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity

Author: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
Publication date: 2024

6. The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

Author: Susannah Gibson
Publication date: 2024

7. Women and Music in the Age of Austen

Editor: Linda Zionkowski and Miriam F. Hart
Publication date: 2024

8. Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

Author: Nikki M. Taylor
Publication date: 2023

9. Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

Author: Elizabeth Cobbs
Publication date: 2023

10. Flora Macdonald: "Pretty Young Rebel": Her Life and Story

Author: Flora Fraser
Publication date: 2023

11. Histories of French Sexuality: From the Enlightenment to the Present

Editor: Nina Kushner and Andrew Israel Ross
Publication date: 2023

12. In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America

Author: Jacqueline Beatty
Publication date: 2023

13. The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia

Author: Tamika Y. Nunley
Publication date: 2023

14. The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

Author: Kerri K. Greenidge
Publication date: 2023

15. A History of Women in Medicine and Medical Research: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM

Author: Dale DeBakcsy
Publication date: 2022

16. Woman: The American History of an Idea

Author: Lillian Faderman
Publication date: 2022

17. American Milliners and Their World: Women's Work from Revolution to Rock and Roll

Author: Nadine Stewart
Publication date: 2021

18. Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492–1825

Editor: Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara Vicuña Guengerich
Publication date: 2021

19. Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity

Editor: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publication date: 2021

20. Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice, and Gender in Early Modern Bologna

Author: Sanne Muurling
Publication date: 2021

21. In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters

Author: Nancy Goldstone
Publication date: 2021

22. Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

Author: Serena Dyer
Publication date: 2021

23. New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of Church and State

Author: Gretchen Murphy
Publication date: 2021

24. She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power, 1619 to 1969

Author: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Publication date: 2021

25. The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London

Author: Catherine Ostler
Publication date: 2021

26. The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America

Author: Matthew Pearl
Publication date: 2021

27. To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities

Author: Sara T. Damiano
Publication date: 2021

28. Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna

Author: Babette Bohn
Publication date: 2021

29. Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court: Power, Risk, and Opportunity

Author: Fabian Persson
Publication date: 2021

30. Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-cis Masculinities

Author: Lisa Tatonetti
Publication date: 2021

31. A Black Women's History of the United States

Author: Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Publication date: 2020

32. A History of Women's Prisons in England: The Myth of Prisoner Reformation

Author: Susanna Menis
Publication date: 2020

33. A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery, and Resistance

Author: Stella Dadzie
Publication date: 2020

34. Bawdy City: Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790–1915

Author: Katie M. Hemphill
Publication date: 2020

35. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674–1913

Author: Carolyn Conley
Publication date: 2020

36. Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge

Editor: Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil L. Whitehead
Publication date: 2020

37. Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective

Editor: Jennifer Aston and Catherine Bishop
Publication date: 2020

38. Female Husbands: A Trans History

Author: Jen Manion
Publication date: 2020

39. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic

Author: Erika Denise Edwards
Publication date: 2020

40. The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame du Barry

Author: Tracy Adams and Christine Adams
Publication date: 2020

41. The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America

Author: Lara Freidenfelds
Publication date: 2020

42. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

Author: Jessica Marie Johnson
Publication date: 2020

43. Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories

Editor: Boyd Cothran, Joan Judge, and Adrian Shubert
Publication date: 2020

44. Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914

Editor: Manon van der Heijden, Marion Pluskota, and Sanne Muurling
Publication date: 2020

45. America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Author: Pamela S. Nadell
Publication date: 2019

46. Good Queen Anne: Appraising the Life and Reign of the Last Stuart Monarch

Author: Judith Lissauer Cromwell
Publication date: 2019

47. Interwoven Lives: Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities

Author: Candace Wellman
Publication date: 2019

48. Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History

Author: Sarah Knott
Publication date: 2019

49. No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History

Author: Gail Collins
Publication date: 2019

50. Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France

Author: Katie Jarvis
Publication date: 2019

51. She-Merchants, Buccaneers, and Gentlewomen: British Women in India

Author: Katie Hickman
Publication date: 2019

52. Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution

Author: Kacy Dowd Tillman
Publication date: 2019

53. The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History

Author: Alys Eve Weinbaum
Publication date: 2019

54. Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World

Editor: Barbara Oberg
Publication date: 2019

55. Divided Loyalties?: Pushing the Boundaries of Gender and Lay Roles in the Catholic Church, 1534–1829

Author: Lisa McClain
Publication date: 2018

56. Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830

Author: Briony McDonagh
Publication date: 2018

57. First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role

Author: Jeanne E. Abrams
Publication date: 2018

58. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690–1792

Author: Susan Sleeper-Smith
Publication date: 2018

59. Intimate Memory: Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China

Author: Martin W. Huang
Publication date: 2018

60. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

Author: Catherine Kerrison
Publication date: 2018

61. Maternal Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America

Author: Nora Doyle
Publication date: 2018

62. Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power

Author: Tai S. Edwards
Publication date: 2018

63. Women in Business in Early Modern Copenhagen, 1740–1835

Author: Carol Gold
Publication date: 2018

64. Women in the American Revolution

Author: Sudie Doggett Wike
Publication date: 2018

65. Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History

Editor: Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain
Publication date: 2017

66. Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

Author: Sasha Turner
Publication date: 2017

67. Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1800

Editor: James Daybell and Svante Norrhem
Publication date: 2017

68. Gender and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Queen Louisa Ulrika (1720–1782)

Author: Elise M. Dermineur
Publication date: 2017

69. Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast through Cross-Cultural Marriages

Author: Candace Wellman
Publication date: 2017

70. Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer, and European Politics, c. 1500–1800

Editor: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and Adam Morton
Publication date: 2017

71. Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th–19th Centuries

Author: John Bushnell
Publication date: 2017

72. The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach

Author: Matthew Dennison
Publication date: 2017

73. The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures

Author: Anthony J. La Vopa
Publication date: 2017

74. The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico

Author: Lisa Sousa
Publication date: 2017

75. Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves

Author: Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Publication date: 2017

76. Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th–19th Centuries

Editor: Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu
Publication date: 2017

77. A Companion to First Ladies

Editor: Katherine A. S. Sibley
Publication date: 2016

78. Abigail Adams: Letters

Author: Abigail Adams
Publication date: 2016

79. Acadian Women of Prince Edward Island: Three Centuries of Action

Author: Jacinthe Laforest and Georges Arsenault
Publication date: 2016

80. Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

Author: Julie Peakman
Publication date: 2016

81. Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams: Montana Women's Stories

Editor: Martha Kohl
Publication date: 2016

82. Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America

Editor: Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan
Publication date: 2016

83. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Author: Marisa J. Fuentes
Publication date: 2016

84. Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Colonial Plantation Manager and Mother of American Patriots, 1722–1793

Author: Margaret F. Pickett
Publication date: 2016

85. Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600

Editor: Hannah Greig, Jane Hamlett, and Leonie Hannan
Publication date: 2016

86. Gender in Modern East Asia: An Integrated History

Author: Barbara Molony, Janet Theiss, and Hyaeweol Choi
Publication date: 2016

87. Gender, Power, and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

Author: Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent
Publication date: 2016

88. Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire

Author: Allyson M. Poska
Publication date: 2016

89. Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait

Author: Biancamaria Fontana
Publication date: 2016

90. Heroines of the Qing: Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories

Author: Binbin Yang
Publication date: 2016

91. Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany

Author: Margaret Brannan Lewis
Publication date: 2016

92. Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams

Author: Louisa Thomas
Publication date: 2016

93. The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic

Author: Lisa Ze Winters
Publication date: 2016

94. The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan

Author: Marcia Yonemoto
Publication date: 2016

95. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Editor: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publication date: 2016

96. Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present

Editor: Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. Syrett
Publication date: 2015

97. America's First Ladies: A Historical Encyclopedia and Primary Document Collection of the Remarkable Women of the White House

Author: Nancy Hendricks
Publication date: 2015

98. American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Susan Ware
Publication date: 2015

99. British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century

Editor: Teresa Barnard
Publication date: 2015

100. Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast

Author: Pernille Ipsen
Publication date: 2015