Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Start Over Subject Law Region North America Era 19th Century

1. American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States

Author: Nicholas L. Syrett
Publication date: 2016

2. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Author: Clare Sears
Publication date: 2015

3. Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington

Author: Patricia Miller
Publication date: 2018

4. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Author: Talitha L. LeFlouria
Publication date: 2015

5. Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State: A Gendered History

Author: Helen Irving
Publication date: 2016

6. Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions

Editor: Bridget J. Crawford and Anthony C. Infanti
Publication date: 2017

7. Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

Author: Kali Nicole Gross
Publication date: 2016

8. Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War–Era West Virginia

Editor: Allison Dorothy Fredette
Publication date: 2023

9. Incarcerated Women: A History of Struggles, Oppression, and Resistance in American Prisons

Editor: Erica Rhodes Hayden and Theresa R. Jach
Publication date: 2017

10. Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History

Editor: Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott, and Robert O. Self
Publication date: 2021

11. Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854–1946

Author: Katrina Jagodinsky
Publication date: 2016

12. Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America

Author: Jen Manion
Publication date: 2015

13. She-Devil in the City of Angels: Gender, Violence, and the Hattie Woolsteen Murder Case in Victorian Era Los Angeles

Author: Cara Anzilotti
Publication date: 2016

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

Author: Tamika Y. Nunley
Publication date: 2023