Difference between revisions of "Top Ten Books on the History of Women's Citizenship"
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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]. | 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) | ||
− | + | # Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (University of Oxford Press, 2001) | |
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− | + | # Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 1998) | |
+ | # Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2001) | ||
− | + | # Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: A Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (The Free Press, 1994) | |
+ | #Linda Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill & Wang, 1999) | ||
− | + | # Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Vintage, 2003) | |
+ | #Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2009) | ||
− | + | #Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2004) | |
− | + | # 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) | |
− | + | # Sharon E. Wood, The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) |
Revision as of 00:29, 18 November 2018
Emily Prifogle at 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 Legal History Blog.
- Alexander Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Basic, 2000)
- Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (University of Oxford Press, 2001)
- Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
- Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
- Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: A Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (The Free Press, 1994)
- Linda Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill & Wang, 1999)
- Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Vintage, 2003)
- Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2009)
- Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2004)
- 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)
- Sharon E. Wood, The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)