Books of Interest

If you don't have a clue what you'd like to research, here's a fairly random (and nowhere near exhaustive) list of books that relate to some of the topics on our list. Perusing the summaries on Amazon always helps me think through what kinds of things I'm interested in. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments, particularly if you know of books your classmates might find useful.

On Work, Wages, And Particular Professions

• Achterberg, Jeanne. Woman as Healer.
• Baxandall, Rosalyn. America’s Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present.
• Black Women and Work Collective. Sister Circle: Black Women and Work.
• Boulis, Ann K., and Jerry A. Jacobs. The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America.
• Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
• Ehrenreich, Barbara. Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers.
• Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
• Hall, Linley Erin. Who’s Afraid of Marie Curie?: The Challenges Facing Women in Science and Technology.
• Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States.
• Kunzel, Regina G. Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945.
• More, Ellen S., Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Perry. Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine.
• Monosson, Emily. Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out.
• Reverby, Susan M. Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 185-1945.
• Stone, Pamela. Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home.

On Advice Books and Magazines

• Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women.
• Peril, Lynn. Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons.
• Rooks, Noliwe M. Ladies’ Pages: African American Women’s Magazines and the Culture That Made Them.

On Bodies, Sex, and Reproduction

• Baumslag, Naomi, and Dia L Michel. Milk, Money, and Madness: The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding.
• Bogle, Kathleen. Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus.
• Brumberg, Joan. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls.
• Fessler, Ann. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade.
• Gordon, Linda. The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America.
• Luker, Kristin. When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties.
• Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.
• Peril, Lynn. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now.
• Reagan, Leslie J. When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973.
• Regnerus, Mark D. Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers. (this is the book talked about in the New Yorker piece called "Red Sex, Blue Sex" that I mentioned in class).
• Solinger, Rickie. Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States.
• Solinger, Rickie. Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics. (the introduction to this book is in your course packet)
• Stryker, Susan. Transgender History.
• Tone, Andrea. Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America.

On Domesticity, Marriage, and Motherhood

• Apple, Rima D. Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America.
  
• Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835.
• Cott, Nancy F. Public Vows: A Short History of Marriage and the Nation.
• Yalom, Marilyn. A History of the Wife.
  

On Education and Activism

• Davis, Flora. Moving the Mountain: The Women's Movement in America Since 1960.
• Giddings, Paula. Ida: A Sword Among Lions, Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching.
• Giddings, Paula. When and Where I Enter:The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America.
  
• Eisenmann, Linda. Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965.
• Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America.
• Louis, Miriam Ching Yoo. Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Take on the Global Factory.
  
• Lytle, Mark Hamilton. The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement.
  
• Nash, Margaret A. Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1860.
  
• Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800.