Women's History Bibliography
General Index to Women's Resources at the PA State Archives
Also see RG and MG Subject Indexes for more information
Women's History Bibliography
Books: Bederman, Gail. Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Blee, Kathleen M. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Bodnar, John. Anthracite People: Families, Unions and Work, 1900-1940. Harrisburg: PHMC, 1983.
Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Butler, Elizabeth Beardsley. Women and the Trades: Pittsburgh, 1907-1908. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.
Child, Brenda J. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
Clinton, Catherine. Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Cott, Nancy F. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Creighton, Margaret S. The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle. New York: Basic Books, 2005.
D'Emilio, John. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
DuBois, Ellen Carol. Through Women's Eyes : An American History with Documents. Boston: Bedford, 2005.
DuBois, Ellen. Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights. New York: NYU Press, 1998.
Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Filene, Peter G. Him/Her/Self: Gender Identities in Modern America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
George, Margaret Hewitt. Never Use Your Dim Lights, Not Even in the Fog: A Political Journey. Doylestown, Pa.: Writers Room, 2004.
Giesberg, Judith Ann. Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition. Northeastern University Press, 2006.
Gordon, Lynn D. Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Hodge, Ruth E. Guide to African American Resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2000.
Jenson, Joan M. Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Katzenstine, Caroline. Lifting the Curtain: The State and National Women's Suffrage Campaigns in Pennsylvania as I Saw Them. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., 1955.
Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Kerber, Linda K. No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.
Kerber, Linda K. Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Lerner, Gerda. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York, Pantheon Books, 1972.
McElroy, Janice H. Our Hidden Heritage: Pennsylvania Women in History. Washington, D.C.: Pennsylvania Division, American Association of University Women, 1983.
Merritt, Jane T. At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Miller, Randall M. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.
Nash, Margaret A. Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2005.
Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters : The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Boston: Brown, 1980.
Peiss, Kathy Lee. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
Ries, Linda A. Guide to Photographs at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Harrisburg: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1993.
Rosenberg, Rosalind. Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Roth, Benita. Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Roydhouse, Marion W. Women of Industry and Reform: Shaping the History of Pennsylvania, 1865-1940. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2007.
Ruíz, Vicki. Unequal Sisters: An Inclusive Reader in US Women's History. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Schmedlen, Jeanne Hearn. History of Women in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1923-2001. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 2001.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Smith, Eric Ledell. African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
Solinger, Rickie. Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America. New York: New York University Press, 2005.
Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women in Higher Education in America. Newhaven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Stepenoff, Bonnie. Their Fathers' Daughters: Silk Mill Workers in Northern Pennsylvania, 1880-1960. Selinsgrove and London: Susquehanna University Press and Associated Presses, 1999.
Trennert, Robert A. "Educating Indian Girls at Non-reservation Boarding Schools, 1878-1920." The Western Historical Quarterly, No. 13, No. 3. (July, 1882), 217-290.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. New York, N.Y.: Knopf, 1982.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Ware, Susan. Modern American Women: A Documentary History. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2002.
Wolensky, Kenneth C, et al. Fighting for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.
Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
Zauhar, Frances Murphy. Out of the Kitchen: Women in the Armed Forces and on the Homefront: The Oral Histories of PA Veterans, World War II. Rev. ed. Vol. 4. Latrobe, Pa.: Saint Vincent College Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, 1997.