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Sollid, Roberta Reed. Calamity Jane: A Study in Historical Criticism. Helena: Montana Historical Press, 1995.
Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the Company of Educated Women. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985.
Springer, Marlene, and Haskell Springer, eds. Plains Woman: The Diary of Martha Farnsworth. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
Stage, Sarah. Female Complaints. New York: W.W. Norton, 1979.
Stansell, Christine. City of Women. Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York: Henry Holt, 1982.
Stratton, Joanna. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
Sutherland, Daniel. The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860–1876. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
Tone, Andrea. Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America. New York: Hill & Wang, 2001.
Wald, Lillian. The House on Henry Street. New York: Henry Holt, 1915.
Wang, Holman. Bathroom Stuff. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, 2001.
Weatherford, Doris. Foreign and Female. New York: Facts on File, 1995.
Wilcox, R. Turner. Mode in Hats and Headdress. New York: Scribner’s, 1945.
Wilson, Luzena. Luzena Stanley Wilson 49er. Mills College, Calif.: Eucalyptus Press, 1937.
Winnemucca Hopkins, Sarah. Life Among the Piutes. Bishop, Calif.: Califant Press, 1969.
Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience.
Wunder, John, ed. At Home on the Range: Essays on the History of Western Social and Domestic Life. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Yung, Judy. Unbound Feet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Zanjani, Sally. Sarah Winnemucca. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
PERIODICALS
Andreadis, Harriette. “True Womanhood Revisited: Women’s Private Writing in Nineteenth-Century Texas.” Journal of the Southwest 31, no. 2 (Summer 1989), pp. 179–202.
Banfield, Maud. “About Patent Medicine.” Ladies’ Home Journal (May 1903), p. 26.
Degler, Carl. “What Ought to Be and What Was: Women’s Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century.” The American Historical Review 79, no. 5 (December 1974), pp. 1467–90.
Faragher, John Mack, and Christine Stansell. “Women and Their Families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842–1867.” Feminist Studies 2 (1975), pp. 150–66.
Fellman, Michael. “Julia Lovejoy Goes West.” Western Humanities Review 31, no. 3 (Summer 1977), pp. 227–41.
Fleming, Sidney Howell. “Solving the Jigsaw Puzzle: One Suffrage Story at a Time.” Annals of Wyoming 62, no. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 33–73.
Graham, Patricia Albjerg. “Expansion and Exclusion: A History of Women in American Higher Education.” Signs 3, no. 4 (Summer 1978), pp. 759–73.
Griffin, Dick. “Opium Addiction in Chicago.” Chicago History 6, no. 2 (1977), pp. 107–16.
Hogan, William Ransom. “Pamela Mann: Texas Frontierswoman.” Southwest Review 20, no. 4 (July 1935), pp. 360–70.
Kroll, Helen. “The Books that Enlightened the Emigrants.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 45, no. 2, (June 1944), pp. 103–23.
Larson, T.A. “Petticoats at the Polls: Woman Suffrage in Territorial Wyoming.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 44, no. 4 (April 1953), pp. 74–79.
Lerner, Gerda. “Early Community Work of Black Club Women.” Journal of Negro History 59, no. 2 (April 1974), pp. 158–67.
Massie, Michael. “Reform Is Where You Find It: The Roots of Woman Suffrage in Wyoming.” Annals of Wyoming 62, no. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 2–21.
Munkres, Robert. “Wives, Mothers, Daughters: Women’s Life on the Road West.” Annals of Wyoming 42, no. 2 (October 1970), pp. 189–224.
Read, Georgia Willis. “Women and Children on the Oregon-California Trail in the Gold Rush Years.” Missouri Historical Review 39, no. 1 (October 1944), pp. 1–23.
Riley, Glenda. “Women’s Responses to the Challenges of Plains Living.” Great Plains Quarterly 9, no. 3 (Summer 1989), pp. 174–84.
Rosenberg, Charles. “Sexuality, Class and Role in 19th-Century America.”
Scott, Anne Firor. “Most Invisible of All: Black Women’s Voluntary Associations.” Journal of Southern History (February 1990), pp. 3–22.
Somers, Dale. “The Leisure Revolution: Recreation in the American City, 1820–1920.” Journal of Popular Culture 5, no. 1 (Summer 1971), pp. 125–45.
Stansell, Christine. “Women on the Great Plains, 1865–1890.” Women’s Studies 4 (1976), pp. 87–98.
Ueda, Reed. “The High School and Social Mobility in a Streetcar Suburb: Somerville, Massachusetts, 1870–1910.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14, no. 4 (Spring 1984), pp. 751–71.
CHAPTERS 13 TO 15
BOOKS
Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House.
Adickes, Sandra. To Be Young Was Very Heaven. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
Auster, Albert. Actresses and Suffragists. New York: Praeger, 1984.
Bailey, Beth. From Front Porch to Back Seat. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Banner, Lois. American Beauty.
Barker-Benfield, G. J., and Catherine Clinton, eds., Portraits of American Women. Barr, Andrews. Drink: A Social History of America. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999.
Beauchamp, Cari. Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward. New York: Signet Classic, 2000.
Benson, Susan. Counter Cultures. Blocker, Jack. American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform. Boston: Twayne, 1988.
Bodnar, John, Roger Simon, and Michael Weber. Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900–1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.
Bordin, Ruth. Frances Willard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
Brady, Kathleen. Ida Tarbell. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
Brandt, Allan. No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Brodie, Janet Farrell. Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America.
Brown, Dorothy. Setting a Course: American Women in the 1920s. Boston: Twayne, 1987.
Bundles, A’Lelia. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. New York: Scribner’s, 2001.
Burnham, John. Bad Habits. New York: New York University Press, 1993.
Chesler, Ellen. Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Cowan, Ruth. More Work for Mother.
Damon-Moore, Helen. Magazines for the Millions. Albany: State University of New York, 1994.
Davies, Margery. Woman’s Place Is at the Typewriter.
Davis, Allen. American Heroine.
Degler, Carl. At Odds.
D’Emilio, John, and Estelle Freedman. Intimate Matters. Deutsch, Sarah. Women and the City. Diliberto, Gioia. A Useful Woman. New York: Scribner’s, 1999.
Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995.
Douglas, Susan. Listening In. New York: Times Books, 1999.
DuBois, Ellen Carol. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.
Dudden, Faye. Serving Women.
Dulles, Foster Rhea. A History of Recreation. Dumeril, Lynn. Modern Temper. New York: Hill & Wang, 1995.
Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good.
Ellis, Anne. The Life of an Ordinary Woman.
Eyman, Scott. Mary Pickford. New York: Donald Fine, 1990.
Evans, Sara. Born for Liberty.
Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. New York: Penguin, 1992.
Fass, Paula. The Damned and the Beautiful. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. New York: Scribner’s, 1960.
Flexner, Eleanor, and Ellen Fitzpatrick. Century of Struggle. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1996.
Fowler, Robert. Carrie Catt: Feminist Politician. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986.
Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I. Niwot: University of Colorado Press, 1997.
Giele, Janet Zollinger. Two Paths to Women’s Equality. New York: Twayne, 1995.
Gilbreth, Frank, and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Belles on Their Toes. New York: Bantam Books, 1984.
———. Cheaper by the Dozen. New York: Bantam Books, 1975.
Gilfoyle, Timothy. City of Eros.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
Goldberg, Michael Lewis. An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Golden, Eva. Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara. Vestal, N.Y.: Emprise Publishing, 1996.
Goldsmith, Barbara. Other Powers.
Gorn, Elliott. Mother Jones. New York: Hill & Wang, 2001.
Green, Harvey. The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915–1945. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
Griffith, Elisabeth. In Her Own Right.
Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. New York: Anchor Books, 1990.
Hamilton, Marybeth. When I’m Bad, I’m Better. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Hartman, Mary, and Lois Banner, eds. Clio’s Consciousness Raised. Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974.
Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.
Hewitt, Nancy. Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida. 1880s–1920s. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Higonnet, Margaret, ed. Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I. New York: Plume, 1999.
———. Nurses at the Front. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001.
Hilmes, Michele. Radio Voices. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. Black Women in America.
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.
———. Campus Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
James, Edward T., and Janet Wilson James, eds. Notable American Women.
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Frontier Women.
Jessen, Gene Nora. The Powder Puff Derby of 1929. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, 2002.
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow.
Joselit, Jenna Weissman. A Perfect Fit.
Klein, Yvonne, ed. Beyond the Home Front: Women’s Autobiographical Writing in Two World Wars. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
Kroeger, Brooke. Fannie. New York: Times Books, 1999.
Lash, Joseph. Eleanor: The Years Alone. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972.
Leinwand, Gerald. 1927. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001.
Lender, Mark, and James Martin. Drinking in America. New York: The Free Press, 1987.
Leuchtenburg, William. The Perils of Prosperity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Lunardini, Christine. From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights. Lincoln, Nebr.: to Excel, 2000.
Marks, Patricia. Bicycles, Bangs and Bloomers: The New Woman in the Popular Press. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990.
Mason, Bobbie Ann. The Girl Sleuth. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
May, Elaine Tyler. Barren in the Promised Land. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995.
———. Great Expectations.
Mead, Margaret. Blackberry Winter. New York: Kodansha America, 1995.
Merz, Charles. The Dry Decade. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1931.
Mulvey, Kate, and Melissa Richards. Decades of Beauty. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
Nasaw, David. Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Odem, Mary. Delinquent Daughters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
O’Neill, William, ed. The American Sexual Dilemma. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972.
Parker, Alison. Purifying America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements.
———. Hope in a Jar.
Reed, James. From Private Vice to Public Virtue.
Riley, Glenda. The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley.
Rosen, Marjorie. Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies and the American Dream. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973.
Rosenthal, Naomi Braun. Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
Ryan, Mary. Womanhood in America.
Sanger, Margaret. An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton, 1938.
Scharff, Virginia. Taking the Wheel. New York: The Free Press, 1991.
Schlereth, Thomas. Transformations in Everyday Life.
Schmalhausen, Samuel, and V. F. Calverton, eds. Woman’s Coming of Age: A Symposium. New York: Horace Liveright, 1931.
Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl Schneider. Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. Lincoln, Nebr.: to Excel, 2000.
Scott, Anne Firor, and Andrew MacKay Scott. One Half the People. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.
Seller, Maxine, ed. Immigrant Women.
Shapiro, Laura. Perfection Salad.
Sherr, Lynn. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. New York: Times Books, 1995.
Smith, Norma. Jeanette Rankin: America’s Conscience. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2002.
Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the Company of Educated Women.
Springer, Marlene, and Haskell Springer, eds., Plains Woman.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Eighty Years and More. Stearns, Peter. Fat History. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
Strasser, Susan. Never Done.
Tarbox, Gwen Athene. The Clubwomen’s Daughters. New York: Garland, 2000.
Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote. 1850–1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Tone, Andrea. Devices and Desires.
Wall, Cheryl. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Ward, Geoffrey. Not for Ourselves Alone. New York: Knopf, 1999.
Ware, Susan. Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.
———. Letter to the World: Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Weatherford, Doris. Foreign and Female.
Willard, Frances. How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle. Sunnyvale, Calif.: Fair Oaks Publishing, 1991.
Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience.
Yellin, Carol Lynn, and Janann Sherman. The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press, 1998.
PERIODICALS
Anonymous. “The Harm My Education Did Me.” The Outlook, November 30, 1927, pp. 396–405.
Armstrong, Anne. “Seven Deadly Sins of Women in Business,” Harper’s (August 1926), pp. 295–303.
Bok, Edward. “At Home with the Editor.” Ladies’ Home Journal (April 1893), p. 18.
Breen, William J. “Black Women and the Great War: Mobilization and Reform in the South.” Journal of Southern History 44, no. 3 (August 1978), pp. 421–40.
Bromley, Dorothy Dunbar. “Feminist—New Style.” Harper’s (October 1927), pp. 552–60.
Carey, Henry R. “Career or Maternity?” North American Review 228 (July 1929), pp. 737–44.
Cookingham, Mary. “Combining Marriage, Motherhood and
Jobs Before World War II: Women College Graduates, Classes 1905–1935.” Journal of Family History 9, no. 2 (Summer 1984), pp. 178–95.
Deegan, Mary Jo. “Dear Love, Dear Love: Feminist Pragmatism and the Chicago Female World of Love and Ritual.” Gender & Society 10, no. 5 (October 1996), pp. 590–607.
DeVoto, Bernard. “The Co-Ed: The Hope of Liberal Education. Harper’s Magazine (September 1927), pp. 452–59.
Fletcher, Grace Nies. “Bringing Up Fathers,” Ladies’ Home Journal (September 1927), pp. 35, 199–201.
Scott, Anne Firor. “After Suffrage: Southern Women in the Twenties.” Journal of Southern History (August 1964), pp. 298–318.
Somers, Dale. “Leisure Revolution.”
Stricker, Frank. “Cookbooks and Law Books: The Hidden History of Career Women in Twentieth-Century America.” Journal of Social History 10, no. 1 (Fall 1976), pp. 1–19.
Ticknor, Caroline. “The Steel-Engraving Lady and the Gibson Girl.” Atlantic Monthly (July 1901), pp. 105–8.
Tunis, Lucy. “I Gave Up My Law Books for a Cook Book.” American Magazine (July 1927), pp. 172–77.
Wolfson, Theresa. “Trade Union Activities of Women.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (May 1929), p. 120.
CHAPTERS 16 TO 19
BOOKS
Aaron, Daniel, and Robert Bendiner, eds. The Strenuous Decade. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1970.
Allen, Florence. To Do Justly. Cleveland: Press of Western Reserve University, 1965.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America. New York: Perennial Library, 1972.
Alpert, Jane. Growing Up Underground. New York: William Morrow, 1981.
Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
Bailey, Beth. From Front Porch to Back Seat.
Bentley, Amy. Eating for Victory. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Bird, Caroline. The Invisible Scar. New York: David McKay, 1966.
Blackwelder, Julia Kirk. Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio. 1929–1939. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984.
Blótner, Joseph. Faulkner: A Biography (Vol. 2). New York: Random House, 1974.
Bowman, Constance, and Clara Marie Allen. Slacks and Calluses. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.
