Women's History, Life & Values
Basics:
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
National Council for Research on Women.
In the Library: Articles
Conniff, Ruth. “Title IX: political football,” Nation (3/24/03):19-21. Women’s sports under attack by jocks who have ally in president.
Cott, Nancy F. "Marriage & women's citizenship in the US, 1830-1934," American Historical Review 103,5 (1998):1440-74.
Douglas, Susan J. "Technical foul against title IX," In These Times (4/31/03):9-10.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Boris, Eileen. Home to Work: Motherhood & the Politics of Industrial Homework in United States (Cambridge: Cmabridge U., 1994).
Breines, Wini. Young, White, & Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon, 1992).
Collins, Gail. America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines (NY: William Morrow, 2003).
Dublois, Ellen Carol & Vicki L. Ruiz (eds.) Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women's History [1990] (3rd ed.; NY: Routledge, 2000).
Fineman, Martha Albertson. The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family & other 20th C. Tragedies (NY : Routledge, 1995).
Guerrilla Girls, The. Bitches, Bimbos & Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes (NY: Penguin, 2003).
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. Changing Differences: Women & the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994 (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1995).
Jensen, Joan M. & Sue Davidson (eds.) A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America (Philadelphia: Temple, 1984).
Kallett, Marilyn & Judith Ortiz Cofer (eds.) Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers & the Art of Survival (Athens: U. of Georgia, 1999).
Hanaver, Cathi (ed.) The Bitch in the House (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2003).
Heywood, Leslie & Shari L. Dworkin. Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 2003).
McBride, Regina. The Land of Women (NY: Touchstone, 2003).
Merelman, Richard M. Representing black culture (New York: Routledge, 1995).
Omolade, Barbara. The Rising Song of African American Women (New York: Routledge, 1995).
Roberts, Elizabeth. A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women (NY, 1986).
Scobie, Ingrid Winther. Center Stage: Helen Gahagan Douglas, A life (NY: Oxford, 1992).
Sigerman, Harriet. The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941 (NY: Columbia, 2003).
Smith, Hilda & Berenice Carroll. Women's Politics & Social Thought (Bloomington: Indiana U., 2000).
Smith-Hunter, Andrea. Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Analyzing Successful Women Entrepreneurs (Lanham, MD: University Press, 2003).
Taylor, Debbie. My Children, My gold. A Journey to the World of Seven Single Mothers (Berkeley: U. of California, 1995).
Welter, Barbara. Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the 19th Century (Athens OH: Ohio U, 1977).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
Partridge, Elizabeth. Restless Spirit: The Life & Work of Dorothea Lange (NY: Viking/Penguin, 1999).
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
Nebenzahl, Donna & Nance Ackerman. Womankind: Faces of Change Around the World (NY: Feminist/CUNY, 2003).