United States Women & Gender History
Comprehensive Examination Bibliography
Baker, Paula. “The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society,
1780-1920.” American Historical Review 89 (June 1984): 620-47.
Bailey, Beth L. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century
America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in
the United States, 1880–1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Benson, Susan Porter. Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in
American Department Stores, 1890–1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Blewett, Mary. Men, Women and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England
Shoe Industry, 1780-1910. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the
Early Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Bradley, Patricia. Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York:
Routledge, 1999.
Cahn, Susan. Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women’s
Sport. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Carnes, Mark C. Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1989.
Chafe, William. The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of a Gay
Male World, 1890–1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
Cott, Nancy. The Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 17801835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
________. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1987.
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Cuordileone, K.A. Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War. New York:
Routledge, 2005.
Davis, Angela. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie
Smith, and Billie Holiday. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture,
and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1999.
Evans, Sara M. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights
Movement and the New Left. New York: Knopf, 1979.
Gilbert, James. Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Gordon, Linda. “Social Insurance and Public Assistance: The Influence of Gender in
Welfare Thought in the U.S., 1890-1935.” American Historical Review 97 (February
1992): 19-54.
Gorn, Elliot. The Manly Art: Bare Knuckle Prize Fighting in America. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1986.
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the
Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1993.
Hoganson, Kristen. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the
Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1998.
Horowitz, Daniel. Betty Friedan and the Making of the “The Feminine Mystique”: The
American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1998.
Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New
England. W. W. Norton and Co., 1998.
Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
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Koven, Seth and Sonya Michel. “Womanly Duties: Maternalist Politics and the Origins
of Welfare States in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, 18801920.” American Historical Review 95 (October 1990): 1076-1108.
Kwolleck-Folland, Angel. Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate
Office, 1870-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New
York: Basic Books, 1988.
Meyerowitz, Joanne, ed. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America,
1945-1960. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
________. Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Peiss, Kathy. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture. New York:
Metropolitan Books, 1998.
Rotundo, E. Anthony. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the
Revolution to the Modern Era. New York: Basic Books, 1993.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1988.
Smith-Rosenberg, Caroll. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between
Women in Nineteenth-Century America.” Signs 1 (1975): 1-29.
Strom, Sharon Hartman. Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of
Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1992.
Summers, Martin. Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the
Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2004.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her
Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Weiss, Jessica. To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Welter, Barbara. “The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860.” American Quarterly 18
(1966): 151-174.
White, Deborah. Ar'n't I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. Rev. Ed. New
York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
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