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Top Ten Books on the History of Women's Citizenship

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[[File:Right_to_Vote.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px| [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465005020/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465005020&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2717fb04033627095a8ca5435413297e The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States]]]
 
Emily Prifogle at [http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/ Legal History Blog] has a posted an outstanding booklist on the History of Women's Citizenship.  A number of these books (especially the books written by Barbara Young Welke, Lizabeth Cohen, and Margot Canaday) are also favorites of DailyHistory.org.  Check out [http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/ Legal History Blog].
# Alexander Keyssar, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465005020/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465005020&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2717fb04033627095a8ca5435413297e The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States] (Basic, 2000)
1.  Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Basic, 2000)   2.  Alice # Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (University of Oxford Press, 2001)   3.  Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 1998)  4.  Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)   5.  Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: A Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (The Free Press, 1994) 
6.  Linda Kerber# Amy Dru Stanley, No Constitutional Right  From Bondage to Be LadiesContract: Women Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Obligations Market in the Age of Citizenship Slave Emancipation (Hill & WangCambridge University Press, 19991998)
# Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
7.  Lizabeth Cohen# Linda Gordon, A Consumers’ Republic Pitied but Not Entitled: The Politics A Single Mothers and the History of Mass Consumption in Postwar America Welfare (VintageThe Free Press, 20031994)
#Linda Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill & Wang, 1999)
8.  Margot Canaday# Lizabeth Cohen, The Straight State A Consumers’ Republic: Sexuality and Citizenship The Politics of Mass Consumption in Twentieth-Century Postwar America (Princeton University PressVintage, 20092003)
#Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2009)
9.  Meg #Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2004)
10.  Nancy # Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation  (Harvard University Press, 2000) and The Grounding of Modern Feminism (Yale University Press, 1989)
11.  Sharon # Sharon E. Wood, The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

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