History Books


Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam Best Price: $8.80 Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnamprovides a superb insight into my...	Women Warriors: Adventures from History's Greatest Female Fighters (Live Girls Series) Best Price: $0.99 History books can usually be pretty boring. This one is not ! It is fun, alive, easy to read...	Hide and Seek: Jewish Women and Hair Covering Best Price: $18.60 This book, on such an underrepresented subject, is long overdue. With all of the books in...	The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942 Best Price: $21.54 If you're going to criticize a book, it is helpful if you 1)understand the argument of the book;...	A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England Best Price: $15.95 This is a fun book. Too often, social history of the 19th century gives the impression of...



Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics Best Price: $17.99 I am a female graduate student in physics. There are certain issues the field has not dealt...	Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit Best Price: $21.95 In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at...	Wild by Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts Best Price: $22.93 Unlike other reviewers, I was really disappointed in this book. Because of the cover picture, I...	Women in the Crucible of Conquest: The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500-1600 (Dialogos Series) Best Price: $23.99 The Spanish conquest of the southern hemisphere of the New World disrupted the "gender...	Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West Best Price: $29.95 So many studies of American Jewish life have centererd on the Northeast that we tend to forget...



Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program (Gender Relations in the American Experience) Best Price: $13.99 I am an admirer of Weitekamp's excellent work at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum as...	More than Petticoats: Remarkable Texas Women Best Price: $0.95 These ten inspiring biographical accounts of 19th century Texas women who changed history are...	The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations Best Price: $35.04 I've only read about the first 5 chapters but this what I gather from the book as a whole. While...	Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir (Radcliffe Biography Series) Best Price: $3.93 Alva Myrdal (1902-1986), diplomat, feminist, and one of the founders of the Swedish welfare...	Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance Best Price: $2.86 I was very excited about this book when I found it. As a woman of faith, I thought it would be...

Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women Best Price: $11.00 Presenting a diverse collection of documents, Root of Bitterness reaches from the colonial era...	The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment Best Price: $3.92 This book deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians,...	Representing Women Best Price: $14.88 Women--as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women, even absent women--haunt nineteenth- and...	Hearts and Hands: Women, Quilts, and the American Society My husband purchased this book for me and WOW! It is packed with information regarding the...	The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century Best Price: $2.44 When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a breakthrough...

For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women Best Price: $7.88 This book offers insight into our everyday lives - turned and twisted, yet redily accepted...	Suffragettes to She Devils Best Price: $2.99 This book has been an unending resource for me. As an activist I am always looking for ways to...	In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice Against Women Best Price: $8.86 This book is a very important compilation of the history of prejudice against women from...	The Mammoth Book of Heroic and Outrageous Women (Mammoth Books) Best Price: $13.99 I love this book. It is exactly what I have been wanting, and is what the "Uppity...	Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling Best Price: $59.45 Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after...

Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France Best Price: $18.98 In fin-de-si?cle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before....	The Lady and the Tigers: Remembering the Flying Tigers of World War II Best Price: $13.21 This review refers to the Kindle e-book version of The Lady and the Tigers: Remembering the...	Jailed for Freedom Best Price: $16.89	Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt Best Price: $18.49 Ancient Egyptian art was the star attraction of the Mediterranean world for 3000 years, only for...	The American Look: Sportswear, Fashion and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York Best Price: $29.95 Drawing on a wonderful array of sources, from fashion magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and ...

Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) Best Price: $17.40 "Ryan's elegant essays sketch a chronology of changing gender symbology and contribute to...	Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology Best Price: $69.95	The Great Goddesses of Egypt Best Price: $16.33 Written by an egyptologist, this book is well-researched and yet at the same time easy to read...	Gender, Politics, and Democracy: Women's Suffrage in China Best Price: $28.95 This is the first exploration of women's campaigns to gain equal rights to political...	Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture (Weimar and Now - German Cultural Criticism , No 11) Best Price: $20.85 Women in the Metropolis is a compilation of ten essays regarding women in Germany in the early...

Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer (Harvard Historical Studies) Best Price: $48.53 I've just read through all the available bios of Dorothea Dix for an upcoming film project, and...	Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice (Women in Culture and Society Series) Best Price: $22.97 Sperling outlines a wonderful story of the "war of conspicuous consumption" taking...	Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine Best Price: $14.00 Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of...	Lives of Their Own: Rhetorical Dimensions in Autobiographies of Women Activists (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) Best Price: $13.94	Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming Best Price: $7.50 Victoria Cass has found them -- the heroes of the Yin smothered by centuries of stereotypes. In...

Women in Texas Best Price: $12.50 This revised edition contains chapters on thirty-two of Texas' most notable women from Jane Long...	Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols And the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights Best Price: $8.65 Most women in modern times have a vague idea that things are "better" now than before...	The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 Best Price: $16.86 In this book, Anne Firor Scott takes an in-depth look at the Woman Suffrage movement in the...	A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving in America) Best Price: $47.96 Dr. Sarnecky tells the story of the Army Nurse Corps in a compelling manner. She discusses the...	Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women (Feminist Crosscurrents) Best Price: $26.00 "A fascinating social history of women's rights, centered on a lengthy and discouraging...

Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement I was lucky enough to read this book when it came out; it was assigned reading for an...	Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb : Forgotten Women and Their Unforgettable Ideas Best Price: $38.65 This book is an inspiration to anyone. A kick in the butt to women who are surrounded by...	Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat (Modern War Studies) Best Price: $23.66 Wings, Women, and War by Reina Pennington was a delightfully quick read. There is a lot of...	She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (Bayou Press Series) Best Price: $63.75 She Bop II is an encyclopedic work on the history of women in blues, country, folk, pop, rock,...	The Jewish Women of Ravensbr?ck Concentration Camp Best Price: $19.66 The Jewish Women Of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp by Rochelle G. Saidel (Founder and Director...

European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History Best Price: $22.48 Karen Offen's newest work, the groundbreaking European Feminisms: 1700 - 1950, seeks to...	Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46 (Women in American History) Best Price: $45.00 Black and white women's struggles over race relations in the YWCA and beyond As the major...	Debutante: Rites and Regalia of American Debdom (Cultureamerica) Best Price: $5.03 The book shows us the history of American debdom from the colonial era to the present day. I...	War, Women, and Druids: Eyewitness Reports and Early Accounts of the Ancient Celts Best Price: $19.24 Has all the major ancient sources on the Celts translated into easily readable English.	Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia (New World in the Atlantic World) Best Price: $24.91 Linda Sturtz's elegant and engaging study of the curious and complex place occupied by women of...

Margaret Sanger: Her Life in Her Words Best Price: $4.50 An interesting book on early 20th century America that many of the recent immigrants like me are...	Civil War Women: Their Quilts, Their Roles, Activities for Re-Enactors Best Price: $47.95 For an excellent review of this book, please see that of seasidewanderer (below). I agree...	Family Fortunes, Revised Edition: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 Best Price: $34.66 Family Fortunes is an account of the rise of the middle class, both as a class and as...

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