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Selected Bibliography

Compiled by E. Susan Barber with Sheridan Harvey

Related Resources

Beeton, Beverly. Women Vote in the West: The Woman Suffrage Movement, 1869-1896. New York: Garland, 1986.

Berg, Barbara J. The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism, The Woman and the City, 1800-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Chafe, William Henry. The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Cott, Nancy F. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Epstein, Barbara Leslie. The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1981.

Evans, Sara M. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. New York: Free Press, 1989.

Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Rev. ed. Boston: Belknap Press, 1975 (1959).

Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. New York: W. Morrow, 1984.

Griffith, Elisabeth. In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Hewitt, Nancy A., and Suzanne Lebsock, eds. Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Kerr, Andrea Moore. Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Kimmel, Michael S. and Thomas E. Mosmiller, eds. Against the Tide: Pro-feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990: A Documentary History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Ruiz, Vicki L. and Ellen Carol DuBois, eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1994. [contains new essays not published in 1st ed.]

Ryan, Mary P. Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Schneir, Miriam, ed. Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings. New York: Random House, 1972.

Scott, Anne F., and Andrew M. Scott, eds. 1975. One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975. Reprint: Urbana: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Sterling, Dorothy, ed. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. "Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the 19th Amendment," in Decades of Discontent: The Women's Movement, 1920-1940. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill. New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Video cassette:

One Woman, One Vote. Produced by Educational Film Center. First broadcast in February 1995, on PBS's "The American Experience." Distributed by PBS Video.

Museum Exhibit:

"From Parlor to Politics." Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., indefinite.


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