Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

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1. Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?

Author: Rebecca J. Fraser
Publication date: 2023

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

Author: Kerri K. Greenidge
Publication date: 2023

3. Amelia Stone Quinton and the Women's National Indian Association: A Legacy of Indian Reform

Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publication date: 2022

4. Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains

Author: Jennifer J. Hill
Publication date: 2022

5. Flora's Fieldworkers: Women and Botany in Nineteenth-Century Canada

Editor: Ann Shteir
Publication date: 2022

6. Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism

Author: Joanna Scutts
Publication date: 2022

7. Making Choices, Making Do: Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression

Author: Lois Rita Helmbold
Publication date: 2022

8. Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad

Author: Miriam Thaggert
Publication date: 2022

9. Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

Author: Nathalia Holt
Publication date: 2022

10. Woman: The American History of an Idea

Author: Lillian Faderman
Publication date: 2022

11. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Author: Rebecca Donner
Publication date: 2021

12. Antigone in the Americas: Democracy, Sexuality, and Death in the Settler Colonial Present

Author: Andrés Fabián Henao Castro
Publication date: 2021

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

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

14. Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions

Author: Susan Burch
Publication date: 2021

15. In a New Light: Histories of Women and Energy

Editor: Abigail Harrison-Moore and R. W. Sandwell
Publication date: 2021

16. Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community

Author: Vanessa M. Holden
Publication date: 2021

17. This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s

Editor: Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin
Publication date: 2021

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

Author: Lisa Tatonetti
Publication date: 2021

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

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

20. An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I

Author: Chris Dubbs
Publication date: 2020

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

Author: Katie M. Hemphill
Publication date: 2020

22. Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South

Author: Brandi Clay Brimmer
Publication date: 2020

23. In League against King Alcohol: Native American Women and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874–1933

Author: Thomas J. Lappas
Publication date: 2020

24. Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies

Author: Cait McKinney
Publication date: 2020

25. Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow

Author: Tyrone McKinley Freeman
Publication date: 2020

26. Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers

Author: Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham
Publication date: 2020

27. Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930

Author: Laura J. Arata
Publication date: 2020

28. Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

Author: Cathleen D. Cahill
Publication date: 2020

29. Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the Long March for Women's Rights

Author: Zachary Michael Jack
Publication date: 2020

30. Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

Author: Ellen Carol DuBois
Publication date: 2020

31. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Author: Thavolia Glymph
Publication date: 2020

32. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

Author: Morgan Jerkins
Publication date: 2020

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

Author: Jessica Marie Johnson
Publication date: 2020

34. Women's Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Editor: Elena V. Shabliy, Dimitry Kurochkin, and Gloria Y. A. Ayee
Publication date: 2020

35. After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia's New York

Author: Elisabeth Israels Perry
Publication date: 2019

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

Author: Pamela S. Nadell
Publication date: 2019

37. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America

Author: Kabria Baumgartner
Publication date: 2019

38. Interwoven Lives: Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities

Author: Candace Wellman
Publication date: 2019

39. Medicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School

Author: Jim Kristofic
Publication date: 2019

40. Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote

Author: Tina Cassidy
Publication date: 2019

41. No Straight Path: Becoming Women Historians

Editor: Elizabeth Jacoway
Publication date: 2019

42. Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918

Editor: Lizzie Ehrenhalt and Tilly Laskey
Publication date: 2019

43. Sex in the Archives: Writing American Sexual Histories

Author: Barry Reay
Publication date: 2019

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

Author: Alys Eve Weinbaum
Publication date: 2019

45. The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown

Author: Julia Flynn Siler
Publication date: 2019

46. The Women's Suffrage Movement

Editor: Sally Roesch Wagner
Publication date: 2019

47. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Author: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Publication date: 2019

48. Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence

Author: Kate Clarke Lemay
Publication date: 2019

49. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Author: Saidiya Hartman
Publication date: 2019

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

Editor: Barbara Oberg
Publication date: 2019