Women and Gender
Supplemental Bibliography—Alisa Harrison, University of Victoria
18th Century and Before
Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race,
And Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: UNC, 1996.
Fischer, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race and Resistance in Colonial North
Carolina. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Karlsen, Carol. Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England.
New York: Norton, 1987.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her
Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Knopf, 1990.
19th-Century US
Cott, Nancy. The Bonds of Womanhood: ‘Woman’s Sphere’ in New England, 17801835. New Haven: Yale, 1977 [1997].
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of
the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s
Campaign Against Lynching. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Hunter, Tera W. To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after
The Civil War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Lerner, Gerda. “The Lady and the Mill Girl: Changes in the Status of Women in the
Age of Jackson.” MidContinent American Studies Journal. 10 (1, 1969): 5-15.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. “The Female World of Love and Ritual.” (1975) In Joan
Scott, ed. Feminism and History. New York: Oxford, 1996.
Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. New York:
Knopf, 1986.
20th-Century US
Brown, Elsa Barkley. “Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the
Independent Order of Saint Luke.” Signs 14 (Spring 1989): 610-33.
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. Dishing it Out: Waitresses and their Unions in the Twentieth
Century. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1991.
Cott, Nancy F. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press,1987.
Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston, 1870-1940.
New York: Oxford, 2000.
Douglas, Susan. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media. New
York: Times Books, 1994.
Evans, Sara M. Personal Politics: the Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil
Rights Movement and the New Left. New York: Knopf, 1979.
Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White
Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1996.
Hewitt, Nancy. Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s1920s. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2001.
Horowitz, Daniel. Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: the
American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts, 1998.
Mathews, Donald and De Hart, Jane. Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and
The Nation. New York: Oxford, 1990.305.4209756 M429 S518 1990—have
Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935. New
York: Oxford, 1991.
Shaw, Stephanie. What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women
Workers During the Jim Crow Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Surveys
Baker, Paula. “The Domestification of Politics: Women and American Political Society,
1780-1920.” American Historical Review. 89 (3, June 1984): 620-47.
Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex
in America. Toronto and New York: Bantam, 1984.
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the
Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Vintage, 1985.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford, 1986.
Lerner, Gerda. The Majority Finds its Past: Placing Women in History. New York:
Oxford, 1979.
Ruiz, Vicki L. and DuBois, Ellen Carol. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in
US Women’s History. 3rd Edition. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Scott, Anne. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics 1830-1930. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1970.
White, Deborah Gray. Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves
1894-1994. New York: WW Norton, 1998.
Theory and Historiography
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York:
Routledge, 1990. [reprinted 1999]
Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. “African American Women’s History and the
Metalanguage of Race.” Signs. (Winter 1992): 251-73.
James, Joy, ed. The Angela Y. Davis Reader. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998.
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing
Press, 1984.
Riley, Denise. “Does Sex Have a History? [1988].” In Feminism and History, edited by
Joan Scott. (New York: Oxford, 1996).
Scott, Joan. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia, 1988.
Smith, Bonnie G. The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice.
Cambridge: Harvard, 2000.
Body and Sexuality
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body.
University of California Press, 1993.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New
York: Random House, 1997.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia as a Modern
Disease. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.
D’Emilio, John, and Freedman, Estelle B. Intimate Matters. New York: Harper and
Row, 1988.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume One. New York:
Vintage, 1978.
Haiken, Elizabeth. Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins UP, 1997.
Martin, Emily. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston:
Beacon Press, 1987.
Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United
States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Peiss, Kathy. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture. New York:
Metropolitan Books, 1998.
Schwartz, Hillel. Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat. New
York: Free Press, 1986.
Stearns, Peter N. Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. New York: New
York University Press, 1997.