Women's Studies

Almost from the beginning the Press published important studies by women scholars, including Harriet L. Herring's Welfare Work in Mill Villages (1929) and Guion Griffis Johnson's Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (1937). In the late 1930s, the Press was one of the first to focus on gender as a subject of historical and cultural inquiry. In the 1970s, it took an early lead in publishing feminist works. Today, its Gender and American Culture series, under the general editorship of Linda Kerber and Nell Irwin Painter, develops and publishes some of the best works in the field.



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