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Library Exhibit March 2005

Women's History Month: Women's Changing Roles

Items from the McCain Library collection and ARTstor Digital Library.

Companion Bibliography

Selected Books

Angels and amazons, a hundred years of American women by Inez Haynes Irwin. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Dorana & Company Inc., 1934.
HQ1410.K6

Chronology of women worldwide: people, places and events that shaped women’s history by Lynne Brakeman, editor; Susan Gall, managing editor. Detroit, Gale Research 1997.
Ref. HQ1121.C617 1997

Daughters of time: women in the western tradition by Mary Kinnear Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press 1982.
HQ1121.K5 1982

Feminism and history edited by Joan Wallach Scott. Oxford: New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
HQ1121. F43 1996

Growing up female in America: ten lives edited and introduced by Eve Merriam New York: Laurel 1973.
HQ1412.M47 1973

Hidden from history: rediscovering women in history from the 17th century to the present by Sheila Rowbotham New York: Pantheon Books, 1975.
HQ1597.R68 1975

A history of women in the west by Georges Duby & Michelle Perot. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press 1992-1994
HQ1121.S79513 v 1-5 1992

Liberating women’s history: theoretical and critical essays by Berenice A. Carroll Urbana: Univ. of Illinois press, 1976.
HQ1121.L56 1976

Ordinary women, extraordinary lives: women in American history edited by Kriste Lindenmeyer. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2000.
CT3260 .O67 2000

Selected Articles

Baxandall, Rosalyn. Re-visioning the women’s liberation movement’s narrative: early second wave African American feminists. Feminist Studies. 2001 27(1): 225-245.

Bennett, Judith M. Theoretical issues confronting continuity. Journal of Women’s History. Bloomington: Fall 1996 8(3): 73.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. Women's history in the new millennium: Reframing the history of women’s wage labor: challenges of a global perspective. Journal of Women's History. 2004 15(4): 186-206.

McCammon, Holly J. Out of the parlors and into the streets: the changing of the U.S. women’s suffrage movements. Social Forces. 2003 81(3): 787-818.

Theriot, Nancy M. Gender and medicine in nineteenth-century America. NWSA Journal. 2003 15(2): 144-153.

Weigand, Kate. Agents of social change: celebrating women’s progressive activism across the twentieth century. Journal of Women’s History. Summer 2002. vol.4 (2): 1

Websites

Brunner Borgna International Women’s Day (March 8th commemorates women’s rights and peace)
<http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womensday1.html>

Quotations by women from Golda Meir to Whoopi Golderg <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/whmquotes1.html>

Timeline of key events in the American women’s rights movement <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html>

The wage gap: A history of pay inequity and the Equal Pay Act <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html>

Women’s History Month
< http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenshistory1.html>

Women’s History Month- The History Channel <http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/womenhist/index.jsp>