WST 337 Topics in Women's Studies
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Background Information and Reference Sources
American Women’s Diaries [microfilm]—WCC Reserve
Century of Struggle, by Eleanor Flexner – WCC Ref HQ 1236.5.U6 F549c 1975
Encyclopedia of American Social History – WCC Ref HN 57 E539 1993
The Encyclopedia of New England: the culture and history of an American region –
WCC Ref F 4 E3539 2005
Everyday Life During the Civil War, by Michael J. Varhola – WCC Ref 973.76 V426e 1999
Everyday Life in the 1800s: a guide for writers, students & historians, by Marc McCutcheon --
WCC Ref E 165 M33888e 2001
From Suffrage to the Senate: an encyclopedia of American women in politics --
WCC Ref 320.082 Sch27f 1999
Girlhood in America: an encyclopedia -- WCC Ref HQ 777 G5755 2001
Handbook of American Women's History -- WCC Ref 305.4 H191
Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States --
WCC Ref LC 1752 H57867 1998
Twentieth Century Teen Culture by the Decades: a reference guide --
WCC Ref 305.235 R651t 1999
Women During the Civil War: an encyclopedia -- WCC Ref E 628 H3774w 2004
Women in Higher Education: an encyclopedia -- WCC Ref LC 1568 W6646 2002
Women in the United States; Social Life & Customs; Social Conditions
The Essential Daughter: changing expectations for girls at home, 1797 to the present, by Mary
Collins. UC Circ HQ1410 C655566e 2002
Women in the United States, 1830-1845, by S.J. Kleinberg. WCC Reserve
Roots of Bitterness: documents of the social history of American women, by Nancy F. Cott.
WCC Circ HQ 1410 C677r 1972
"Just a housewife": the rise and fall of domesticity in America, by Glenna Matthews.
WCC Circ HQ 1410 M38 1987
Victorian America: transformations in everyday life, 1876-1915, by Thomas J. Schlereth.
WCC Circ 973.8 Sch37
Disorderly Conduct: visions of gender in Victorian America, by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg.
WCC Circ HQ 1419 S6583d 1985
What shall we do with our daughters?: Superfluous women, and other lectures, by Mary A.
Livermore. MWWC LC 1481 L1481 L5847w 1883
Able-bodied Womanhood: personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston,
by Martha Verbrugge. WCC Circ 613.024 V582
American Decades: 1900-1909. WCC Ref 973 B832
American Decades: 1910-1919. WCC Ref 973 B832
The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945, by Harvey Green. WCC Circ 973.91 G822
American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920, by Dorothy Schneider.
WCC Circ 305.4 Sch57
Setting a Course: American women in the 1920s, by Dorothy M. Brown. WCC Circ 305.4 T912 v.1
Flapper: a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern,
by Joshua Zeitz. WCC Circ E 784 Z4589f 2006
American Decades, 1920-1929. WCC Ref 973 B832
Holding Their Own: American women in the 1930s, by Susan Ware. WCC Circ 305.4 T912 v.2
American Decades, 1930-1939. WCC Ref 973 B832
From Front Porch to Back Seat: courtship in twentieth century America, by Beth L. Bailey.
WCC Circ 306.7 B151
The History of Women's Education in the United States
Campus Life: undergraduate cultures from the end of the eighteenth century to the present,
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. WCC Circ 378.198 H785
College Girls: bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now, by Lynn Peril.
WCC Circ LC 1756 P4755c 2006
In the Company of Educated Women: a history of women and higher education,
by Barbara Miller Solomon. WCC Circ 376.9 S47
Women's Education, 1790-1830
"Perspectives on the history of women's education in the United States," by Jill K Conway.
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Reinterpreting Women's Education,
(Spring, 1974), pp. 1-12. [online]
The Beginnings of Education in Maine, by Ava Harriet Chadbourne. MWWC LA 298 C433b 1928
Learning to Stand & Speak: women, education, and public life in America's republic,
by Mary Kelley. UC Circ HQ 1418 K4559L 2006
The Mirror of Antiquity: American women and the classical tradition, 1750-1900,
by Caroline Winterer. WCC Circ HQ 1418 W5684m 2007
Reclaiming a Conversation: the ideal of the educated woman, by Jane Roland Martin.
WCC Circ 305.4 M364
"Sentimental Womanhood and Domestic Education, 1830-1870"
by Phillida Bunkle. History of Education Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Reinterpreting Women's
Education, (Spring, 1974), pp. 13-30. [online]
Alma Mater: design and experience in the women's colleges from their nineteenth-century
beginnings to the 1930s, by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. WCC Circ 376.H785
Catharine Beecher: a study in American domesticity, by Kathryn Kish Sklar.
WCC Circ 813.09 B391
Four Lives in Science: women's education in the nineteenth century, by Lois Arnold.
WCC Circ 509.22 Ar64
Girls and Literacy in America: historical perspectives to the present, by Jane Greer.
UC Circ LC 1757 G57583 2003
Learning Together: a history of coeducation in American schools, by David B. Tyack.
WCC Circ 376.9 T951
Nineteenth-century women learn to write, edited with an introduction by Catherine Hobbs.
WCC Circ 376.9 H652n
A Plan for Improving Female Education, by Emma Willard. WCC Circ 376.9 W661
Sex in Education : or, A fair chance for the girls, by Edward H. Clarke.
MWWC LC 1621 C5375s 1873
Sex and education: A reply to Dr. E. H. Clarke's "Sex in education," edited, with an introduction,
by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. MWWC LC 1621 S493 1874
"The trouble with coeducation: Mann and women at Antioch, 1853-1860," by John Rury and
Glenn Harper. History of Education Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4, (Winter, 1986), pp. 481-502.
"Women's Colleges and Domesticity, 1875-1918"
by Roberta Wein. History of Education Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Reinterpreting Women's
Education, (Spring, 1974), pp. 31-47. [online]
The Bazar Book of Decorum: the care of the person, manners, etiquette, and ceremonials.
WCC Ref 395 D35 1873
The College Girl of America and the Institutions Which Make Her What She Is,
by Mary Caroline Crawford; 1905. [MaineCat]
College Girls: a century in fiction, by Shirley Marchalonis. WCC Circ 810.9 M331c
The Housekeeper's Week, by Marion Harland. WCC Ref 648 H226 1908
Looking Good: college women and body image, 1875-1930, by Margaret A. Lowe.
UC Circ HQ 1220.U6 L694L 2003
"The Gibson Girl Goes to College: Popular Culture and Women's Higher Education in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920"
by Lynn D. Gordon. American Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 2, (Summer, 1987), pp. 211-230. [online]
Girls' Schooling During the Progressive Era: from female scholar to domesticated citizen,
by Karen Graves. WCC Circ 373.1822 G785g 1998
Intimate Communities: representation and social transformation in women's college fiction,
1895-1910, by Sherrie A. Inness. WCC Circ 813.09 In6i
Pioneering Deans of Women: more than wise and pious matrons, by Jane Nidiffer.
WCC Circ LC 1620 N5354p 2000
Smith College Stories: ten stories, by Josephine Bacon. MWWC PS 1054.B62 S658 1900
What Can a Woman Do: or her position in the business and literary world,
by Martha Louise Rayne. WCC Ref 301.412 1896
"When the College Girl Comes Home to Stay," by Mary Fanton Roberts.
New York Times; Jan 26, 1913; pg X8 [online]
"The Education of Jane Adams"
by J.O.C. Phillips. History of Education Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Reinterpreting Women's
Education, (Spring, 1974), pp. 49-67. [online]
"Varieties of Cultural Experience in Jane Addams' Chicago," by Helen L. Horowitz. History of
Education Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Reinterpreting Women's Education,
(Spring, 1974), pp. 69-86. [online]
The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, edited by Mary Lynn McCree. UC Circ HV 28.A35 A 25
"The College Girl of 1930"
by Jeanette Eaton. The Woman's Journal, vol. 15, (May, 1930), pp. 5-7, 42-44. WCC Reserve
"The College Girl Puts Marriage First," by Eunice fuller Barnard. New York Times;
Apr 2, 1933; pg SM8 [online]
"The New Freedom of the College Girl," by Eunice Fuller Barnard. New York Times;
Mar 19, 1933; pg SM8 [oneline]
No Nice Girl Swears, by Alice-Leone Moats; 1933. [Mainecat]
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965
by Linda Eisenmann. WCC Circ LC 1756 E3946h 2006
Using the UNE Libraries catalog
The UNE Libraries catalog can be searched by author, title, keyword, or subject. The following
subject headings are especially useful for women's education topics.
Women College Students
Women--Education
Women--Education (Higher)
Women's Colleges
Women--United States--History--19th century
Women--United States--History--20th century
Women--United States--Social Conditions
Women--Employment--United States
College Students--History
Universities and Colleges--History
United States--Social life and customs
Coeducation
Girls--United States
Young Women--United States
Use also the names of specific women (e.g. Willard, Emma; Blackwell, Elizabeth)
Use also the names of specific colleges (e.g. Smith College)
If you need a book that is not available within the UNE Libraries, you may request it through
MaineCat or Interlibrary Loan.
The databases listed below will help you locate journal articles. Databases usually contain journal article citations and abstracts, and many include the full-text journal article. For more help in finding the specific articles you want, see How to Find a Specific Journal Article. To determine the difference between scholarly and popular articles, see Is It a Scholarly Journal or Isn't It?
America History & Life -- Historical literature of the United States and Canada
American National Biography -- Biographical profiles of people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
Annals of American History -- Full-text source documents on United States history from 1493 to the present.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index -- Indexing to 19th century books, newspapers, government documents and periodicals.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) -- Includes the history of higher education.
Historical Statistics of the United States -- U.S. historical information and statistics from the earliest times to the present.
History Resource Center: U.S. -- United States history from pre-colonial times to the present.
JSTOR -- Online access to back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
New York Times Historical -- Full-text of the national newspaper of record since 1851.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial - 1950 -- Includes the experience of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Westbrook College History Collection -- /wchc
Maine Women Writers Collection -- /mwwc
The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature -- Provides indexing, back to 1890, for some of the most popular 19th and 20th century periodicals.
The Maine Register or State Year-Book and Legislative Manual -- Goes back to 1887. Located on the lower level.
American Memory from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Women's History: A Research Guide: Education http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-educ.html
Five College Archives Digital Access Project (women's history, particularly women's education
at the Five Colleges http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/
National Women's History Museum: The History of Women and Education http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/education/Introduction.html
Schlesinger Library -- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study http://www.radcliffe.edu/schlesinger_library.aspx
Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives at Smith College http://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/index.html
University of Pittsburgh -- The History of Women at Pitt http://www.provost.pitt.edu/whistory/
Roberta (Bobby) Gray, Reference and Instruction Librarian, (207) 221-4323 rgray@une.edu