Jill Kerr Conway: True North: A Memoir, 1994. NY: Vintage Books. 250pp.
Elaine Tyler May: Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War, 1998. NY: Basic books. 223pp.
Regina G.Kunzel: Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945, Yale Historical Publications. 170pp.
Leila J. Rupp: A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America, 180pp.
(Optional: Lillian Faderman: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men-Between Women)),
Compendium 'NORAM4507 Women's history: Sexuality, Motherhood & Mission' (Available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika):
- Linda Kerber, "Separate Spheres; Female Worlds, Women's Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History," Journal of American History 75 (June 1988) 9-39.
- Estelle B. Freedman, "Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics," Reviews in American History 10:4 (Dec 1982) 196-215.
- Barbara Welter, "The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860" American Quarterly18 (1966) 151-174.
- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "The Female World of Love and Ritual," Signs 1 (Fall, 1975) 1-29.
- Nancy F. Cott, "Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850," Signs 4 (1978) 219-236.
- Betty Friedan, "The Sexual Sell" Chapter 9 in The Feminine Mystique (NY: Dell Publishing, 1974).
- Leisa D. Meyer, "Creating GI Jane: The Regulation of Sexuality and Sexual Behavior in the Women's Army Corps during WWII," Feminist Studies 18:3 (1992) 581-601.
- Susan Zeiger, "She Didn't Raise Her Boy to be a Slacker: Motherhood, Conscription, and the Culture of the First World War," Feminist Studies 22 (1) (Spring 1996) 7-39.
- Felicia A. Kornbluh, Review Essay: The New Literature on Gender and the Welfare State: The US Case," Feminist Studies 22 (1) (Spring 1996) 171-197.
- Seth Koven & Sonya Michel, "Womanly Duties: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the U.S., 1880-1920," American Historical Review 95 (Oct 1990) 1076-1108.
- Kathryn Kish Sklar, "A Call For Comparisons (Comment on Koven and Michel)" American Historical Review 95 (Oct 1990) 1109-1114.
- Lisa D. Brush, "Love, Toil, and Trouble: Motherhood and Feminist Politics," Signs 21:2 (1996) 429- 454. (Review Essay).
- M. Rivka Polatnick, "Diversity in Women's Liberation Ideology: How a Black and a White Group of the 1960s Viewed Motherhood," Signs 21:3 (1996) 679-706.
- Susan K. Cahn, "Review Essay: Sexual Histories, Sexual Politics" Feminist Studies 18 (3) (Fall 1992) 629-647.
- Susan K. Cahn, "From the 'Muscle Moll' to the 'Butch' Ballplayer: Mannishness, Lesbianism & Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sport," Feminist Studies 19:2 (1993) 343-368.
- Ricki Solinger, "'A Complete Disaster': Abortion and the Politics of Hospital Abortion Committees, 1950-1970" Feminist Studies 19 (2) (Summer 1993) 241-268.
- Rickie Solinger, “Race and ‘Value’: Black and White Illegitimate Babies, in the U.S., 1945-1965” from Unequal Sisters (2nd ed.)
Additional Articles:
Ruiz & Dubois, Unequal Sisters, 2nd ed.: Will be available for borrowing. Also available through the library.
- George J. Sanchez, "Go After the Women': Americanization and the Mexican Immigrant Woman, 1915-1929," Chapter 18 in Unequal Sisters
- Alice Kessler-Harris, "Equal Employment Opportunity Commission vs. Sears, Roebuck and Company: A Personal Account," Chapter 34 in Unequal Sisters
- Deborah Gray White, "Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South," Chapter 2 in Unequal Sisters. 2nd ed.
Ruiz and Dubois, Unequal Sisters, 3rd ed.: Will be available for borrowing. Also available through the library.
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn, "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor," Chapter 26 in Unequal Sisters, 3rd ed.