Women's Studies

History

The following is a select list of United States and international resources on women's history. Additional sources may be found by searching CATNYP using such subject headings as:

Women China History
Women New York NY History
Hispanic American Women History

United States History | International History

United States History

American women and the U.S. armed forces: a guide to the records of military agencies in the National Archives relating to American women,  compiled by Charlotte Seeley,  (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992),  JFE 94-3777.  Covers “women as wives and mothers of soldiers, suppliers of military goods and services, and participants in and victims of war” from the 18th century on.

Bataille, Gretchen M.,  American Indian women: a guide to research,  (New York: Garland, 1991),  *RS-HB 91-7503.

Black women in America: an historical encyclopedia,  edited by Darlene Clark Hine,  2 vols., (Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1993),  *R-SNE 93-9194 and Sc F 93-3.

Canadian women: a history,  edited by Alison Prentice.  (Toronto, Ont.; Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1996),  JFE 96-11627.  Chronologically organized, from native peoples to the modern era.

Colman, Penny,  Girls: a history of growing up female in America,  (New York: Scholastic Reference, 2000),  JFF 01-697.

Coppens, Linda Miles,  What American women did, 1789-1920 : a year-by-year reference,  (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2001),  *R-SNB 01-3145.

Coser, Rose Laub,  Women of courage: Jewish and Italian immigrant women in New York,  (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999),  *PYI 99-2065.

Covered wagon women: diaries & letters from the western trails, 1840-1890,  11 vols., (Glendale, CA: A.H. Clark Co., 1983-1993), IW 84-2906.

Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn,  The encyclopedia of women’s history in America, 2nd edition, (New York: Facts on File, 2000), *R-SNB 00-12216.

Early American women: a documentary history, 1600-1900,  edited by Nancy Woloch,  (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1992),  JFE 92-10668.

Feminism in our time: the essential writings, World War II to the present,  edited by Miriam Schneir,  (New York: Vintage Books, 1994),  JFD 94-20298.  Modern U.S. feminist documents, many from the 1970s.

Food for our grandmothers: writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminists,  edited by Joanna Kadi,  ( Boston, MA: South End Press, 1994),  JFD 95-276.

Framing our past: Canadian women's history in the twentieth  century,  edited by Sharon Anne Cook, Lorna R. McLean, and Kate O'Rourke,  (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001),  JFF 01-2809.

Friedl, Vicki, Women in the United States military, 1901-1995: a research guide  and annotated bibliography, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), JFE 96-15372.

Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth,  The ABC-CLIO companion to women’s progress in America, (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1994),  *R-SNB 94-10285.

Handbook of American women's history,  edited by Angela H. Zophy, (New York: Garland Pub., 1990),  *R-SNB 92-6146.  Contains brief, introductory-level entries on concepts, events, organizations, and people connected with the U.S. women's movement.

Her story in sport: a historical anthology of women in sports,  edited by Reet Howell,  (West Point, NY: Leisure Press, 1982),  JFE 92-8625.  A history of women’s sports in the U.S. and Canada.

History of women in the United States: historical articles on women’s lives and activities, edited by Nancy Cott, 10 vols.,  (Munich; New York: K. G. Saur, 1992), JFL 93-324.

Immigrant women,  edited by Maxine Schwartz Seller,  (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994),  JFE 94-15547.

Jewish women in America: an historical encyclopedia,  edited by Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, 2 vols., (New York: Routledge, 1997), *PYI 97-3430 and *PYI 97-3431.

Miller, Francesca,  Latin American women and the search for social justice,  (Hanover, NH: University Press of  New England, 1991),  *R-SN 92-7209.  A history of Latin American women and their struggle for social change.

Mujeres latinoamericanas: historia y cultura: siglos XVI al XIX,  edited by Luisa Campuzano,  (La Habana, Cuba: Casa de las Americas; Mexico, D.F.: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, 1997),  JFE 98-4730.  A two-volume, Spanish language history of women in Latin America.

No small courage: a history of women in the United States,  edited by Nancy F. Cott,  (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000),  JFE 00-16633.

The politics of women's studies: testimony from thirty founding mothers,  edited by Florence Howe,  (New York: Feminist Press, 2000), JFE 01-14795.  Essays by seminal feminists.

Public women, public words : a documentary history of American  feminism,  edited by Dawn Keetley and  John Pettegrew, vol. 1: Beginnings to 1900,  (Madison, WI: Madison House, 1997-  ),  *R-SNB 97-7604.  Primary source public documents.

Puerto Rican women's history: new perspectives,  edited by Felix V. Matos Rodriguez and Linda C. Delgado,  (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998),  JFE 98-9419.

Radical feminism: a documentary reader,  (New York: New York University Press, 2000),  JFF 00-923.  Primary source material from the United States.

The reader's companion to U.S. women's history,  edited by Wilma Mankiller and others,  (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998),  *R-SNB 98-3366.

Second to none: a documentary history of American women,  edited by Ruth Moynihan,  2 vols.,  (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993),  *R-SNB 94-10167.

Shakir, Evelyn,  Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American women in the United States,  (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997),  JFE 97-11881.

Sherr, Lynn,  Susan B. Anthony slept here: a guide to American women’s landmarks,  (New York: Times Books, 1994),  *R-SNB 98-8488.  Highlights over 2,000 sites associated with women’s achievements in all 50 states.

Stoner, K. Lynn,  Latinas of the Americas: a source book,  (New York: Garland, 1989),  *RS-SNE 89-2112.

Unequal sisters: a multicultural reader in U. S. women’s history,  edited by Vicki L. Ruiz, (New York: Routledge, 1994),  JFF 94-2570.  Thirty essays illustrate the diversity of U.S. women’s experience.

Weatherford, Doris,  A history of the American suffragist movement,  (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998),  *R-SEH 98-7415..

Weatherford, Doris,  Milestones: a chronology of American women's history,  (New York: Facts on File, 1997),  *R-SNB 97-3450.

Women's America: refocusing the past,  edited by Linda Kerber and  Jane Sherron De Hart,  5th edition, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000),  JFF 00-1559.

Women’s history sources: a guide to archives and manuscript collections in the United States,  edited by Andrea Hinding,  2 vols., (New York: Bowker, 1979),  *RS-SNB 80-2932.

International History

Ahmed, Leila,  Women and gender in Islam: historical roots of a modern debate,  (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992),  *OGM 92-4387.

Anderson, Bonnie S.,  A history of their own: women in Europe from prehistory to the present,  2 vols., (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), *R-SNB 89-1218.  Chronological European history with a focus on women.

Baskin, Judith R.,  Jewish women in historical perspective,  (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1991),  *PYI 91-4250.  Collection of essays about women in the Holocaust, the Bible, and more.

Beddoe, Deirdre,  Discovering women's history: a practical guide to researching  the lives of women since 1800,  3rd edition,  (London; New York: Longman, 1998),  JFE 99-68.  Brief history of British women and a practical guide to historical research.

Celebrating women's history: a women's history month resource book,  edited by Mary Ellen Snodgrass,  (New York: Gale Research, 1996),  JFF 96-6302.  Activities, historical information and study guide for women’s history month.

Chronology of women worldwide: people, places & events that shaped women's history,  edited by Lynne Brakeman,  (Detroit: Gale Research, 1997),  *R-SNB 98-10073.

Clements, Barbara, E.,  Daughters of revolution: a history of women in the U.S.S.R,  (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1994),  JFD 95-12199.

Echols, Anne,  The annotated index of medieval women,  (New York: M. Wiener Pub., 1992),  *R-SNE 92-17460.

Faderman, Lillian,  Surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present,  (New York: Morrow, 1981),  JLE 81-1509.  An international history of lesbianism.

Feminism: the essential historical writings,  edited by Miriam Schneir,  (New York: Vintage Books, 1994),  JFD 96-8868; a 1972 edition is in JLD 72-3655.  A sourcebook for major international feminist documents.

Franck, Irene M.,  Women’s world: a timeline of women in history,  (New York: HarperPerennial, 1995),  *R-SNB 95-9557.

Frey, Linda,  Women in western European history: a select chronological, geographical, and topical bibliography,  2 vols., (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982-1984), *RS-SNB 83-1400.  Extensive listing of books and periodical articles covering antiquity through 1982. A supplementary volume contains a chronological, geographical, and topical bibliography.

Gero, Joan M.,  Engendering archaeology: women and prehistory,  (Oxford; Cambridge, MA: B. Blackwell, 1991),  JFE 91-2501.

Hannam, June,  British women’s history: a bibliographical guide,  (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1996), *RS-SNB 96-4909.  A bibliographic history of women in Britain from 500 A.D. to present.

Hannam, June,  International encyclopedia of women's suffrage,  (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000),  JFF 01-1603.

Kenyon, Olga,  800 years of women's letters,  (Phoenix Mill, England: A. Sutton, 1992), JFE 93-5592.

Lerner, Gerda,  Women and history, 2 vols.,  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986-93),  JFE 98-922.  Vol. 1: The creation of patriarchy, volume 2: The creation of feminist consciousness,

Olsen, Kirstin,  Chronology of women’s history,  (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994),  *R-SNB 94-10237.

Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945,  edited by Gail Bernstein,  (Berkeley, CA: University of  California Press, 1991),  *OS 91-13003.

Simonton, Deborah,  A history of European women's work: 1700 to the present,  (London; New York: Routledge, 1998),  JFE 98-11260.

Storia della donne in Occidente. English.  A history of women in the West,  5 vols., (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992-94),  *R-SNB 92-8245.

Trager, James,  The women’s chronology: a year-by-year record from prehistory to the present,  (New York: H. Holt, 1994),  *R-SNB 94-13218 and JFE 95-8148.

Women in ancient societies: an illusion of the night,  edited by Leonie Archer and others,  (Basingstoke, England: Macmillan, 1994),  JFD 94-9276.  Covers Greek and Roman, Egyptian, Anglo-Saxon, Hindu, Hebrew, and early Christian women.

Women in England, c. 1275-1527: documentary sources,  edited by P. J. P. Goldberg.  (Manchester, England; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995),  JFD 96-4593.

Women in the classical world: image and text, edited by Elaine Fantham and others, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994),  JFF 94-3443.  Primary sources depicting the lives of ancient Greek and Roman women.

Women in Middle Eastern history: shifting boundaries in sex and gender,  edited by Nikki Keddie,  (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991),  *OGO 92-3947.

Women’s history: Britain, 1850-1945: an introduction,  (Bristol, PA: UCL Press, 1995),  JFE 96-7769.

Women’s lives in medieval Europe: a sourcebook,  (New York: Routledge, 1993),  JFE 93-1819.  Primary sources describing Christian, Jewish, Muslim and heretic women from 500-1500 A.D.

Women's words: the feminist practice of oral history,  edited by Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai, ( New York: Routledge, 1991), *R-SN 91-10041.

Women's worlds in seventeenth-century England,  edited by Patricia Crawford and Laura Gowing,  (London; New York: Routledge, 2000),  JFE 00-1893.  Primary sourcebook of women’s own words.