DOCUMENT PROJECTS
What Challenges Did Secretaries of the East St. Louis National Catholic Community House Face in their Social Work with Immigrants, 1918-1922?
By Jeanne Petit
Abstract | Document List | Introduction
How Did African American Women Shape the Civil Rights Movement and What Challenges Did They Face?
By Gail S. Murray
Abstract Document List Introduction
DOCUMENT ARCHIVE
The Ladder: A Lesbian Review , 1956-1972: An Interpretation and Document Archive
By Marcia M. Gallo
Introduction
BOOK REVIEWS
The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams
By Maurice Hamington (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 240 pp. Cloth, 50.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03476-3). Reviewed by Elizabeth N. Agnew, Ball State University
Articulating Rights: Nineteenth-Century American Women on Race, Reform and the State
By Alison Parker (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. 304 pp. Cloth, 38.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-416-3). Reviewed by LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University
New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era
By Kathleen Sprows Cummings (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 296 pp. Cloth, 45, ISBN 978-0-8078-3249-3; Paper, 22.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-7152-2). Reviewed by Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Augustana College
Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920
By Lara Vapnek (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 232 pp. Cloth, 70.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03471-8; Paper, 25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07661-9). Reviewed by Karen Pastorello, Tompkins Cortland Community College
Latinas in History: An Interactive Project
By Virginia Sanchez Korrol and Vicki L. Ruiz; CD Rom and Website Producer and Designer: Carlos A. Cruz. Reviewed by Ivette M. Rivera-Giusti, Portland State University
Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas
By Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2009). 198 pp., ISBN 978-0-8071-3390-3). Reviewed by Anita Specht, Kansas Wesleyan University
Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women
By Barbara Sicherman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 292 pp. Cloth, 35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3308-7). Reviewed by Judy D. Whipps, Grand Valley (MI) State University
Review Essay
By Susan Rensing, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh
Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth Century United States
By Kristin Celello (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 248 pp. Cloth 29.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3252-3).
What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
By Peggy Pascoe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 320 pp. Cloth, 34.95, ISBN 9780195094633).
Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II
By Christina Simmons (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 320 pp. Cloth, 34.95, ISBN 9780195094633).
NEWS FROM THE ARCHIVES
News
ADDITION TO THE DATABASE OF PUBLICATIONS BY THE COMMISSIONS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
How Did the President's Commission on the Status of Women and Subsequent State and Local Commissions Address Issues Related to Race, 1963-1980?
By Keisha N. Blain and Kathryn Kish Sklar
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In 2022 this essay was extended and republished in two parts.
“Revisiting the President's Commission on the Status of Women through the activism of Dorothy Height, and Her Part in the Emergence of New Forms of Women's Activism, 1961-1966,” by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Keisha N. Blain
View Document Project in Vol. 22, No. 1 (May 2022)
“How did State and Local Commissions Address Issues Related to Race, 1963-1980?” by Keisha N. Blain and Kathryn Kish Sklar
View Essay in Primary Source Set, "Commissions on the Status of Women, 1963-2000"
In 2022 the following two documents were included in the document project “Revisiting the President’s Commission,” by Sklar and Blain.
Memorandum to Mrs. Peterson, 26 March 1963
By Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Women in Minority Groups, typescript, 18 March 1963
By Katherine Ellickson
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FULL-TEXT DOCUMENTS
added to the Women and Social Movements database at this time
Sarah and Angelina Grimké: The First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights
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The Record of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc. 1917-1929
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The Story of the Woman's Party
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Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-1915
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "I. Phenomenal Vocalists," The Colored American Magazine 4:1 (November 1901): 45-53.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "II. Sojourner Truth," The Colored American Magazine 4:2 (December 1901): 124-32.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "III. Harriet Tubman (Moses)," The Colored American Magazine 4:3 (Jan.-Feb. 1902): 210-23.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "IV. Some Literary Workers," The Colored American Magazine 4:4 (March 1902): 276-80.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "V. Literary Workers (Concluded)," The Colored American Magazine 4:5 (April 1902): [366]-71.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "VI. Educators," The Colored American Magazine 5:1 (May 1902): 41-46.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "VII. Educators (Continued)," The Colored American Magazine 5:2 (June 1902): 125-30.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "VIII. Educators (Concluded)," The Colored American Magazine 5:3 (July 1902): 206-13.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "IX. Club Life among Colored Women," The Colored American Magazine 5:4 (August 1902): 273-77.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "X. Artists," The Colored American Magazine 5:5 (September 1902): 362-67.
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Pauline E. Hopkins, "XII. Higher Education of Colored Women in White Schools and Colleges," The Colored American Magazine 5:6 (October 1902): 445-50.
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