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by Gail Collins


  Brown, Helen Gurley. Sex and the Single Girl. New York: Pocket Books, 1962.

  Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project. New York: Vintage, 1997.

  Butler, Susan. East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1977.

  Campbell, D’Ann. Women at War with America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984.

  Caro, Robert. Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. New York: Knopf, 1982.

  Casdorph, Paul. Let the Good Times Roll. New York: Paragon House, 1989.

  Chafe, William. The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  Cohen, Marcia. The Sisterhood. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988.

  Collins, Gail. Scorpion Tongues. Colman, Penny. Rosie the Riveter: Working Women on the Home Front in World War II. New York: Crown, 1995.

  Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols. 1 and 2. New York: Viking, 1992, 1999.

  Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

  Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother.

  Davidson, Sara. Loose Change. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

  Davis, Flora. Moving the Mountain: The Women’s Movement in America Since 1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

  D’Emilio, John, and Estelle Freedman. Intimate Matters.

  Deutrich, Mabel, and Virginia Purdy, eds. Clio Was a Woman: Studies in the History of American Women. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1980.

  Douglas, Susan. Where the Girls Are. New York: Times Books, 1995.

  Ehrenreich, Barbara. The Hearts of Men. New York: Random House, 1983.

  ———. Re-Making Love (with Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs). New York: Anchor, 1986.

  Eisler, Benita. Private Lives: Men and Women of the Fifties. New York: Franklin Watts, 1986.

  Evans, Sara. Born for Liberty.

  ———. Personal Politics. New York: Vintage, 1979.

  ———. Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End. New York: The Free Press, 2003.

  Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

  ———. Life So Far. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

  Furman, Bess. Washington By-Line. New York: Knopf, 1949.

  Gallico, Paul. The Golden People. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965.

  Gluck, Sherna Berger. Rosie the Riveter Revisited. New York: New American Library, 1987.

  Goodwin, Doris Kearns No Ordinary Time. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

  Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

  Green, Harvey. The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915–1945. Greenfield, Lauren. Girl Culture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002.

  Hagood, Margaret Jarman. Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977.

  Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.

  Hamilton, Marybeth. When I’m Bad, I’m Better.

  Harris, Mark Jonathan, Franklin Mitchell, and Steven Schechter. The Homefront. New York: G. P. Putnam’s, 1984.

  Harvey, Brett. The Fifties: A Woman’s Oral History. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

  Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape.

  Hilmes, Michele. Radio Voices.

  Honey, Maureen, ed. Bitter Fruit: African-American Women in World War II. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.

  Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, and James Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. New York: Random House, 1973.

  Inada, Lawson Fusao. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2000.

  Jackson, John. American Bandstand. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

  Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier.

  Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow.

  Kallen, Stuart. The 1950s. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999.

  Kaminski, Theresa. Prisoners in Paradise. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000.

  Keil, Sally Van Wagenen. Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines. New York: Four Directions Press, 1990.

  Kinsey, Alfred, et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1953.

  LaGuardia, Robert. From Ma Perkins to Mary Hartman: The Illustrated History of Soap Operas. New York: Ballantine Books, 1977.

  Lash, Joseph. Eleanor and Franklin. New York: W.W. Norton, 1971.

  ———. Eleanor: The Years Alone.

  Litoff, Judy Barrett, and David Smith. Since You Went Away. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.

  Lundberg, Ferdinand, and Marynia Farnham. Modern Woman: The Lost Sex. New York: Harper & Bros., 1947.

  Lynd, Robert, and Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown in Transition. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937.

  Macy, Sue. A Whole New Ballgame. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.

  Mason, Bobbie Ann. The Girl Sleuth. May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

  Meyer, Leisa. Creating G.I. Jane. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

  Miller, Douglas, and Marion Nowak. The Fifties: The Way We Really Were. New York: Doubleday, 1975.

  Mills, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: Plume, 1993.

  Mintz, Steven, and Susan Kellogg. Domestic Revolutions.

  Moore, Brenda. To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

  Morgan, Robin. Going Too Far. New York: Vintage, 1978.

  ———. Saturday’s Child. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

  Moskowitz, Gerald, and David Rosner. Slaves of the Depression. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987.

  Norman, Elizabeth. We Band of Angels. New York: Pocket Books, 1999.

  Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughters. New York: Scribner’s, 2001.

  Ostrander, Joan. Bits and Pieces of Way Back When. Lincoln, Nebr.: Writers Club Press, 2000.

  Palladino, Grace. Teenagers: An American History. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

  Parks, Rosa. My Story. New York: Puffin Books, 1992.

  Pasachoff, Naomi. Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  Raines, Howell. My Soul Is Rested. New York: Viking Penguin, 1983.

  Reitman, Ben. Boxcar Bertha. New York: Amok Press, 1988.

  Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.

  Robinson, Jo Ann. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.

  Rogan, Helen. Mixed Company. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.

  Roosevelt, Eleanor. It’s Up to the Women. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933.

  Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open. New York: Viking, 2000.

  Rosenthal, Naomi. Spinster Tales.

  Ruiz, Vicki. From Out of the Shadows. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

  Rupp, Leila. Mobilizing Women for War. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.

  ———. Survival in the Doldrums (with Verta Taylor). New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

  Shapiro, Laura. Perfection Salad.

  Sherman, Janann. No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

  Sicherman, Barbara, and Carol Green. Notable American Women: The Modern Period. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1980.

  Smith, Norma. Jeanette Rankin: America’s Conscience.

  Steinem, Gloria. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions.

  Sternsher, Bernard, and Judith Sealander, eds. Women of Valor. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1990.

  Stevens, Michael, ed. Women Remember the War: Voices of the Wisconsin Past. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1993.

  Terkel, Studs. The Good War: An Oral History of W
orld War II. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984.

  ——. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: Washington Square Press, 1970.

  Thurber, James. The Beast in Me and Other Animals. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

  Tone, Andrea. Devices and Desires.

  Tuttle, William. Daddy’s Gone to War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

  Van Amber, Rita. Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression, Vol. 2. Menomonie, Wis: Van Amber, 1993.

  Ware, Susan. Beyond Suffrage.

  ———. Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s, Boston: Twayne, 1982.

  ———. Letter to the World.

  Weatherford, Doris. American Women and World War II. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

  Weiss, Jessica. To Have and to Hold, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

  Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience.

  Wylie, Philip. Generation of Vipers. Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1996.

  PERIODICALS

  Anderson, Karen Tucker. “Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers During World War II.” Journal of American History (June 1982), pp. 82–97.

  Anderson, Kelli. “The Young Woman and the Sea,” Sports Illustrated (November 29, 1999), p. 90.

  Barclay, Dorothy. “Family Palship—With an Escape Clause.” The New York Times Magazine, November 18, 1956, p. 48.

  Bender, Marylin. “Liberation Yesterday—The Roots of the Feminist Movement.” New York Times, August 21, 1970, p. 41.

  Bentham, Josephine. “I Didn’t Want to Tell You.” McCall’s (January 1958).

  Bethune, Mary McLeod. “My Secret Talks with President Roosevelt.” Ebony (April 1949), pp. 43–51.

  Bolin, Winifred Wandersee. “The Economics of Middle-Income Family Life: Working Women During the Great Depression.” Journal of American History 65 (June 1978), pp. 60–74.

  Curtis, Charlotte. “Miss America Pageant Is Picketed by 100 Women.” New York Times, September 8, 1968, p. 81.

  Dullea, Georgia. “Women Demanding Equal Treatment in Mortgage Loans.” New York Times, October 29, 1972, p. R1.

  Fowler, Elizabeth. “Some Women Find Discrimination When Trying to Establish Credit.” New York Times, May 15, 1972, pp. 53, 55.

  “Good-bye Mammy, Hello Mom.” Ebony (March 1947), p. 36.

  Gruenberg, Sidonie. “Why They Are Marrying Younger.” The New York Times Magazine, January 30, 1955, pp. 17, 38.

  Helms, Judith. “Reaction on Jury Ruling.” Alabama Journal (February 8, 1966), p. 9.

  Kuczynski, Alex. “She’s Got to Be a Macho Girl.” New York Times, November 3, 2002, sec. 9, p. 1.

  “Lady Juror Ban Ended.” Huntsville Times, February 8, 1966, p. 1.

  LeSueur, Meridel. “Women on the Breadlines.” New Masses (January 1932), pp. 5–7.

  Miller, Frieda. “What’s Become of Rosie the Riveter?” The New York Times Magazine, May 5, 1946, pp. 21, 48.

  “New Hiring Law Seen Bringing More Jobs, Benefits for Women.” Wall Street Journal, June 22, 1965, p. 1.

  North, Sandie. “Reporting the Movement.” Atlantic Monthly (March 1970), pp. 105–6.

  Pierpont, Claudia Roth. “A Study in Scarlett.” The New Yorker (August 3, 1992), pp. 87–103.

  Schneider, Jack. “British Film to Revisit Crisis at Central High.” Arkansas Democrat. Gazette, May 17, 1999.

  Steinem, Gloria. “The Moral Disarmament of Betty Coed.” Esquire (September 1962), pp. 97, 157.

  Strecker, Edward. “What’s Wrong with American Mothers?” Saturday Evening Post (October 16, 1946), pp. 14, 103.

  “Their Sheltered Honeymoon.” Life (August 10, 1959), p. 51.

  “They’re Housewives and Proud of It.” New York Times, April 3, 1972.

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