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On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

National Council for Research on Women.

In the Library: Articles

Conniff, Ruth. “Title IX: political football,” Nation (3/24/03):19-21. Women’s sports under attack by jocks who have ally in president.

Cott, Nancy F. "Marriage & women's citizenship in the US, 1830-1934," American Historical Review 103,5 (1998):1440-74.

Douglas, Susan J. "Technical foul against title IX," In These Times (4/31/03):9-10.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Boris, Eileen. Home to Work: Motherhood & the Politics of Industrial Homework in United States (Cambridge: Cmabridge U., 1994).

Breines, Wini. Young, White, & Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon, 1992).

Collins, Gail. America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines (NY: William Morrow, 2003).

Dublois, Ellen Carol & Vicki L. Ruiz (eds.) Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women's History [1990] (3rd ed.; NY: Routledge, 2000).

Fineman, Martha Albertson. The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family & other 20th C. Tragedies (NY : Routledge, 1995).

Guerrilla Girls, The. Bitches, Bimbos & Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes (NY: Penguin, 2003).

Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. Changing Differences: Women & the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994 (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1995).

Jensen, Joan M. & Sue Davidson (eds.) A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America (Philadelphia: Temple, 1984).

Kallett, Marilyn & Judith Ortiz Cofer (eds.) Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers & the Art of Survival (Athens: U. of Georgia, 1999).

Hanaver, Cathi (ed.) The Bitch in the House (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2003).

Heywood, Leslie & Shari L. Dworkin. Built to Win: The Female Athlete as Cultural Icon (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 2003).

McBride, Regina. The Land of Women (NY: Touchstone, 2003).

Merelman, Richard M. Representing black culture (New York: Routledge, 1995).

Omolade, Barbara. The Rising Song of African American Women (New York: Routledge, 1995).

Roberts, Elizabeth. A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women (NY, 1986).

Scobie, Ingrid Winther. Center Stage: Helen Gahagan Douglas, A life (NY: Oxford, 1992).

Sigerman, Harriet. The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941 (NY: Columbia, 2003).

Smith, Hilda & Berenice Carroll. Women's Politics & Social Thought (Bloomington: Indiana U., 2000).

Smith-Hunter, Andrea. Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Analyzing Successful Women Entrepreneurs (Lanham, MD: University Press, 2003).

Taylor, Debbie. My Children, My gold. A Journey to the World of Seven Single Mothers (Berkeley: U. of California, 1995).

Welter, Barbara. Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the 19th Century (Athens OH: Ohio U, 1977).

In the Library: Fiction

In the Library: For Young Readers

Partridge, Elizabeth. Restless Spirit: The Life & Work of Dorothea Lange (NY: Viking/Penguin, 1999).

In the Library: Poetry

In the Library: Drama

In the Library: Photography

Nebenzahl, Donna & Nance Ackerman. Womankind: Faces of Change Around the World (NY: Feminist/CUNY, 2003).

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