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• Cash, Floris L.B. "Womanhood and Protest: The Club Movement Among Black Women, 1892-1922." (Ph.D. dissertation. University of New York at Stony Brook, 1986.)
• Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter. New York: William Morrow, 1984.
• Hine, Darlene, ed. Black Women in American History. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1992.
• Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
• Phillips, Kimberly. " 'Heaven Bound': Black Migration, Community, and Activism, Cleveland, 1915-1945." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1992.
• Salem, Dorothy, ed. African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.

Activism:

Nebraska campaign poster, c. 1900.

• Cleveland Women's Groups. Women Celebrating the Bicentennial. Cleveland: August Graphics, 1996.
• Jones, Adrienne. Jane Edna Hunter: A Case Study of Black Leadership, 1910-1950. New York: Carlson, 1990.
• Kluyver, Richard. They Also Serve: Twelve Biographies of Notable Cleveland Women, 1800-1995. Solon: Evans Printing, 1996.
• Morton, Marian. And Sin No More: Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1885-1900. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1993.
• Phillips, Julieanne. " 'Unity in Diversity?' The Federation of Women's Clubs and the Middle Class in Cleveland, Ohio, 1902-1962." Ph.D. dissertation. Case Western Reserve University, 1996.
• Meyer, Jimmy Wilkinson. "Birth Control Policy, Practice and Prohibition in the 1930's: The Maternal Health Association of Cleveland, Ohio." Ph.D. dissertation. Case Western Reserve University, 1993.

Colonial Times:

• Cott, Nancy. The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
• Kerber, Linda. Women of the Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
• Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Employment:

• Davies, Margery. Women's Place is at the Typewriter. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
• Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
• Scharf, Lois. To Work and the Wed: Female Employment, Feminism, and the Great Depression. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980.
• Wandersee, Winifred. Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
• Weiner, Lynn. From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Feminism:

Catherine McCulloch speaking to workers during Wisconsin campaign, 1912.

• Berg, Barbara. The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
• --- The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1975.
• Gordon, Felice. After Winning: The Legacy of the New Jersey Suffragists, 1920-1947. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986.
• Graham, Sara. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
• Lemons, J. Stanley. The Women Citizen: Social Feminism in the 1920's. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.
• O'Neill, William L. Everyone was Brave: The Rise and Fall of Feminism in America. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969.
• --- and Verta Taylor. Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960's. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.
• --- and John Jensen, eds. Decades of Discontent: The Women's Movement 1920-1940. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987.

General Studies:

• Banner, Lois. Women in Modern America. Orlando: Harcourt, Brace, 1995. Cullen-Dupont, Kathryn. The Encyclopedia of Women's History in America. New York: Facts on File, 1996.
• Deglar, Carl. At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
• Evans, Sara. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. New York: Free Press, 1989.
• Hymowitz, Carol and Mihaele Weissman. A History of Women in America. New York: Bantam Books, 1978.
• Kerber, Linda. Toward an Intellectual History of Women. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
• Kerber, Linda et al., eds. U.S. History as Women's History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
• Lerner, Gerda. The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
• Mills, Kay. From Pocahontas to Power Suits: Everything You Need to Know About Women's History in America. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
• O'Brien, Lucy. She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
• Scott, Anne Firor. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1970.
• Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Visions of Gender in Victorian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
• Weatherford, Doris. American Women's History: An A to Z of People, Organizations, Issues, and Events. New York: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Mothers:

• Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work For Mother- The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
• Davison, Jane and Lesley Davison. To Make A House A Home: Four Generations of American Women in the Twentieth Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.
• Kaledin, Eugenia. American Women in the 1950's: Mothers and More. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1992.
• Palmer, Phyllis. Domesticity and Dirt- Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

Multi-Cultural:

• Bataille, Gretchen, ed. Native American Women. New York: Garland Press, 1993. DuBois, Ellen and Vicki Ruiz, eds. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. History. New York: Routledge, 1994.
• Litoff, Judy, ed. European Immigrant Women in the United States. New York: Garland Press, 1994.

Organizations:

• Blair, Karen J. The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868-1914. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1980.
• ---. The History of American Women's Voluntary Organizations, 1810-1960: A Guide to Sources. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989.
• ---. The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America, 1890-1930. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
• Daniels, Arlene Kaplan. Invisible Careers: Women Civic Leaders From the Volunteer World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
• Fletty, Valborg. Public Services of Women's Organizations. New York: George Banta Publishing Co., 1951.
• Ginzberg, Lori. Women and the Work of Benevolence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
• Houde, Mary Jean. Reaching Out: A Story of the Federation of Women's Clubs. Chicago: Mobium Press, 1989.
• Kaminar, Wendy. Women Volunteering: The Pleasure, Pain, and Politics of Unpaid Work From 1830 to the Present. Garden City, N.J.: Anchor Press, 1984.
• Loeser, Herta. Women, Work, and Volunteering. Boston: Beacon Press, 1974.
• Martin, Theodora Penny. The Sound of Our Own Voices: Women's Study Clubs, 1860-1910. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.
• Matthews, Glenna. The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Women's Place in the United States, 1630-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• McCarthy, Kathleen, ed. Lady Bountiful Revisited: Women, Philanthropy, and Power. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
• Scott, Anne Firor. Making the Invisible Woman Visible. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.
• ---. Natural Allies- Women's Associations in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
• Sims, Mary S. The YMCA: An Unfolding Purpose. New York: Woman's Press, 1950.
• Steinschneider. An Improved Woman- The Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs, 1895-1920. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1994.
• Young, Louise M. In the Public Interest: The League of Women Voters 1920-1970. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Reform:

• Beard, Mary Ritter. Women's Work in Municipalities. New York: Arno Press, 1915.
• Bordin, Ruth. Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
• Breckenridge, Sophonsiba. Women in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Their Political, Social, and Economic Activities. New York: Arno Press, 1933.
• Chambers, Clarke. Seedtime of Reform: American Social Service and Social Action 1918-1933. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1963.
• Muncy, Robyn. Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform 1890-1935. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Koven, Seth. "Civic Maternalism and the Welfare State: The Case of Mrs. Humphrey Ward." Paper presented at the Seventh Berkshire Conference on Women's History. Wellesley College, June 1987.

Southern:

• Lebsock, Suzanne. The Free Women of Petersburg. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.

Twentieth Century:

• Blee, Kathleen. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920's. Berkley: University of California Press, 1991.
• Chafe, William. The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
• ----. The Paradox of Change: American Women in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Clarke, Judith Freeman. Almanac of American Women in the Twentieth Century. New York: Prentice Hall, 1987.
• Crawford, Vicki, et al, eds. Women in the Civil Rights Movement. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
• Douglas, Susan. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Random House, 1994.
• Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1983.
• Hartmann, Susan. American Women in the 1940's: The Home Front and Beyond. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982.
• Linden-Ward, Blanche and Carol Hurd Green. American Women in the 1960's: Changing the Future. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.
• May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books, 1988.
• Meyerowitz, Joanne, ed. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America 1945-1960. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
• Ostrander, Susan. Women of the Upper Class. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
• Rosenberg, Rosalind. Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.
• Ware, Susan. American Women in the 1930's: Holding Their Own. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1982.

War:

• Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family, Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981.
• Campbell, D'Ann. Women at War With America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
• Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
• Hartmann, Susan M. The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940's. Boston: Twayne Publishing, 1982.
• Higonett, M.R. et al. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
• Honey, Maureen. Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda During World War II. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.
• Litoff, Judy and David Smith. i Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1997.
• Rupp, Leila J. Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
• Thomas, MM. Riveting and Rationing in Dixie: Alabama Women and the Second World War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1987.
• Weatherford, Doris. American Women and World War II. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

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