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Gender and American Culture Series


Launched in 1988, this distinguished series examines gender in American history, literature, culture, and society.

Series coeditors: Linda K. Kerber (University of Iowa) and Thadious M. Davis (Vanderbilt University)

Editorial Advisory Board: Nacy Cott (Yale University), Cathy Davidson (Duke University), Jane DeHart (University of California, Santa Barbara), Sara Evans (University of Minnesota), Mary Kelley (Dartmouth University), Annette Kolodny (University of Arizona), Wendy Martin (Claremont College), Nell Irvin Painter (Princeton University), Janice A. Radway (Duke University), Barbara Sicherman (Trinity University)


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Boydston, Jeanne, Mary Kelley, and Anne Margolis. Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere (1988)

Brekus, Catherine A. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (1998)

Burr, Virginia Ingraham, ed., Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas. Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848-1889 (1990)

Byars, Jackie. All That Hollywood Allows: Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama (1991)

Bynum, Victoria E. Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South (1992)
Winner of the 1994 Best First Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta

Farrell, Amy Erdman. Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism (1998)

Faue, Elizabeth Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945 (1991)

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988)
Winner of the 1988 C. Hugh Holman Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Co-winner of the 1989 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians
Winner of a 1989 Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996)
Winner of the 1997 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 1997 James A Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 1997 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians

Goossen, Rachel Waltner. Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-1947 (1997)

Isenberg, Nancy. Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (1998)

Jellison, Katherine. Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (1993)

Jordan, Cynthia S. Second Stories: The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions (1989)

Kerber, Linda K. Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays by Linda K. Kerber (1997)

Kerber, Linda K., Alice Kessler-Harris, and Kathryn Kish Sklar (eds.). U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays (1995)

Kibler, M. Alison. Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville (May 1999)

Norwood, Vera. Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature (1993)

Odem, Mary E. Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (1995)
Winner of the 1994 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association
A 1996 Choice Outstanding Academic Books

Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 (1995)

Rabinowitz, Paula. Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America (1991)

Van Dyne, Susan R. Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems (1993; paper edition 1994)
A 1994 Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Varon, Elizabeth R. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (1998)
Winner of the 1995 Lerner-Scott prize for best dissertation in women's history, Organization of American Historians


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