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Women's Bibliographic Resource List II

Compiled by Trish Laski
Assisted by Stephanie Kuehn

This list provides an supplement to the list of bibliographic resources available at Archives Library and Information Center in continuation of the
Pathfinder for Women's History Research in the National Archives and Records Administration Library.

Contents:     Poster from the Library of Congress's American Memory Project

Bibliographies

Butler, Deborah. American women writers on Vietnam: unheard voices: a selected annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1989. Z1227.B88

Cox, Elizabeth. Women in modern American politics: a bibliography, 1900-1995. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1997. Z7963.P64 C69

Friedl, Vicki L, compiler. Women in the United States military, 1901-1995: a research guide and annotated bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. UB418.W65 F75

Greer, Sarah. A bibliography of civil service and personnel administration. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1935. Z1764.C6 G8

Huls, Mary Ellen. United States government documents on women, 1800-1900: a comprehensive bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. Z7964.U49 H85 1993

Kreisel, Martha. American women photographers: a selected and annotated bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Z7134.K74

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Reference Works/Biographical Sources

Asher, Robert, et al. Archival and manuscript resources for the study of women's history: a beginning. Minneapolis: Social Welfare History Archives Center, University of Minnesota Libraries, 1972. Z7965.A7

Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000. F334.M753 P373.

Burton, Shirley. Adelaide Johnson: to make immortal their adventurous will.Macomb, IL: Western Illinois University Press, 1986. NB237.J6.B8

Herr, Pamela and Mary Lee Spence, eds. The letters of Jessie Benton Frémont. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. E415.9.F74

Schenken, Suzanne O'Dea. From suffrage to the Senate: an encyclopedia of American women in politics. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. HQ1236.5.U6 S22

Sherrow, Victoria. Women and the military: an encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1996. U21.75.S54

Steel, Edward M., ed. The correspondence of Mother Jones. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. HD8073.J6 A4

African-American Women

Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000. F334.M753 P373

Gordon, Ann D. and Bettye Collier-Thomas, eds. African American women and the vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. JK1924.A47

Hine, Darlene Clark and Kathleen Thompson. A shining thread of hope: the history of Black women in America. New York: Broadway Books, 1998. E185.86.H68

Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of love, labor of sorrow: Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present. New York: Basic Books, 1985. HD6057.5.U5 J66

Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne. Viewfinders: Black women photographers. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986. TR139.M6b

Powers, Georgia Davis. I shared the dream: the pride, passion, and politics of the first Black woman senator from Kentucky. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 1995. F456.26.P68

Shaw, Stephanie. What women ought to be and to do: Black professional women workers during the Jim Crow era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. HD6054.2.U6

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Family and Children

Degler, Carl N. At odds: women and the family in America from the Revolution to the present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. HQ1418.D4

Revolutionary Women

Ellet, E.F. The women of the American Revolution. New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850. E206.E44

Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: intellect and ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture of the University of North Carolina Press, 1980. HQ1418.K47

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Suffrage

Flexner, Eleanor. Century of struggle: the woman’s rights movement in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959. HQ1410.F61

Gordon, Ann D. and Bettye Collier-Thomas, eds. African American women and the vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. JK 1924.A47

Gordon, Ann D., ed. The selected papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. HQ1410.A2525

Gurko, Miriam. The ladies of Seneca Falls: the birth of the woman’s rights movement. New York: Schocken Books, 1976, c.1974. HQ1412.G85

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Women and Labor

Boris, Eileen and Cynthia Daniels, eds. Homework: historical and contemporary perspectives on paid labor at home. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. HD2336.U5 H66 1989

Calkin, Homer. Women in American foreign affairs.Washington: Department of State, 1977. S 1.2:W84

Calkin, Homer. Women in the Department of State: their role in American foreign affairs. Washington: Department of State, 1978. S1.69: 166

Harris, Barbara J. Beyond her sphere: women and the professions in American history. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. HQ1410.H3

Howes, Ruth H. Their day in the sun: women of the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999. Q1773.3.U5 H68

Laughlin, Kathleen A. Women’s work and public policy: a history of the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945-1970. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. HD6095.L35

Shaw, Stephanie. What women ought to be and to do: Black professional women workers during the Jim Crow era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. HD6054.2.U6

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Women and Reform

Giesberg, Judith Ann. Civil War sisterhood: the U.S. Sanitary Commission and women’s politics in transition. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. E628.G54

Harrison, Cynthia Ellen. On account of sex: the politics of women’s issues, 1945-1968. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. HQ1236.S.U6 H3

Laughlin, Kathleen A. Women's work and public policy: a history of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945-1970. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. HD6095.L35

Murphy, Teresa Anne. Ten hours’ labor: religion, reform, and gender in early New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. HD8083.A11 M87

Swain, Martha H. Ellen S. Woodward: New Deal advocate for women. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1995. HQ1413.W68 S93

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Women and Society

Our mothers before us: women and democracy, 1789-1970. Washington, DC: Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998. HQ1410.09

Blackwelder, Julia Kirk. Women of the Depression: caste and culture in San Antonio, 1929-1935. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1984. HQ1439.S2 B4

Dinkin, Robert J. Before equal suffrage: women and partisan politics from colonial times to 1920. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. HQ1236.5.D55

Hartman, Mary S. and Lois Banner, eds. Clio’s consciousness raised: new perspectives in the history of women. New York: Octagon Books, 1976, c1974. HQ1121.C66

Kerber, Linda K., No constitutional right to be ladies: women and the obligations of citizenship. New York: Hill & Wang, 1998. HQ1236.S.U6 K47

Perdue, Theda. Cherokee women: gender and culture change, 1700-1835. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. E99.C5 P3934

Rowbotham, Sheila. A century of women: the history of women in Britain and the United States. London: Viking, 1997. HQ1593.R68

Yung, Judy. Unbound feet: a social history of Chinese Women in San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. F869.S39 C595

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Women and War/Military

Bellafaire, Judith A. The Women's Army Corps: a commemoration of World War II service. [Washington DC]: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1993. D114.2:W84

Brockett, L.P. Woman's work in the Civil War: a record of heroism, patriotism, and patience. Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy, 1867. E628.B854

Brooks-Pazmany, Kathleen L. United States women in aviation, 1919-1929. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. SI 1.42:5

Butler, Deborah A. American women writers on Vietnam: unheard voices: a selected annotated bibliography. New York: Garland, 1989. Z1227.B88

Carl, Ann B. A WASP among eagles: a woman military test pilot in World War II. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. D790.C272

Clinton, Catherine. Civil War stories. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. E468.9.C57

Douglas, Deborah. United States women in aviation, 1940-1985. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. SI 1.42:7

Ebbert, Jean and Marie-Beth Hall. Crossed currents: Navy women from World War I to Tailhook. Washington: Brassey’s (US), 1993. VB324.W65 E23

Gavin, Lettie. American women in World War I: they also served. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1997. D639.W7 G38

Greenwald, Maurine Weiner. Women, war, and work: the impact of World War I on women workers in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980. HD6095.G7

Hall, Richard. Patriots in disguise: women warriors of the Civil War. New York: Marlowe & Co., 1994. E628.H35

Hancock, Joy Bright. Lady in the Navy: a personal reminiscence. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1972. VA390.H27

Hewitt, Linda. Women marines in World War I. Washington: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1974. D214.13:W84

Higonet, Margaret Randolph, et al. Behind the lines: gender and the two World Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. D639.W7 B43

Holm, Jeanne M., ed. In defense of a nation: servicewomen in World War II. Arlington, VA: Vandamere Press: Washington DC: Military Women’s Press, 1998. D810.W7 I522

Humphrey, Mary Ann. My country, my right to serve: experiences of gay men and women in the military: World War II to the present. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. UB418.G38 H86

Jaros, Dean. Heroes without legacy: American airwomen, 1912-1944. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1993. TL139.J37

Leonard, Elizabeth D. All the daring of the soldier: women of the Civil War armies. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. E628.L45

Marshall, Kathryn. In the combat zone: an oral history of American women in Vietnam, 1966-1975. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987. DS559.8.W6 M3

McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of spies: the women of the OSS. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998. D810.S7 M375

Moore, Frank. Women of the war: their heroism and self-sacrifice. Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1866. E628.M81

Morden, Bettie J. The Women’s Army Corps, 1945-1978. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1990. D114.19:W84

Putney, Martha S. When the nation was in need: Blacks in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992. D810.N4 P88

Women come to the front: journalists, photographers, and broadcasters during World War II. [Washington, DC]: Library of Congress, [1995]. LC 1.2:W 84.

Zeiger, Susan. In Uncle Sam’s service: women workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. D810.W7 Z36

Guides to Women's Resources

Haber, Barbara. Women in America: a guide to books, 1965-1975. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1978. Z7964.U49H3

Henry, Linda J. and Jacqueline Goggin. Guide to the records of the National Council of Negro Women, 1935-1980. Washington, DC: National Archives for Black Women's History, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, National Historic Site, 1999. X6611.B63 H4

Salzmann, Katharine. Guide to resources on women in the processed manuscript collections of the Moorland-Springarn Research Center. Washington DC: Moorland-Springarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, 1995. Z6611.W6 S2

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