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Section 11: Towards Equality Bibliography and Resources Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 – 2016 https://www.edx.org/course/women-have-always-worked-u-s-experience-columbiax-whaw1-2x Section 11: Towards Equality William Chafe, the American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920-1970 (1972). Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics and the Great Migration (1994). Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Women and the Nation (2000). Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987). Angel Kwolek-Folland, Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930 (1994). Primary Sources Mary Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle, The Concise History of Woman Suffrage (1978). Rita Childe Dorr, What Eight Million Women Want (1910). Crystal Eastman, Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution, edited by Blanche Wiesen Cook (1978). Crystal Eastman, Now We Can Begin (1920). Elsie Johnson MacDougald, “The Double Task: The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation” (1925). Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898). Online Collections Catt Collection of Suffrage Photographs, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Papers, 1846-1961, Schlesinger Library. National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress. National Women’s Party Online Collection, Sewall-Belmont House & Museum. Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Women’s Party, Library of Congress. Women’s Suffrage and Equal Rights, MacPherson Collection, Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College. Biography and Memoir Katherine H. Adams, After the Vote Was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists (2010). Judith M. McArthur, Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist’s Life in Politics (2003). Mary Church Terrell, A Colored Woman in a White World (1940). Jill Diane Zahniser, Alice Paul: Claiming Power (2014). Section 12: New Ambitions, New Jobs, and New Freedoms for Women in the 1920s Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982), Chapter 8. Marcia Chatelain, South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration (2015). Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (1996). Lilian Fadermen, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (1991). Tiffany Gill, Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry (2010). Jacqueline Duval Harrison, Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (1988). Valerie Matsumoto, City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 (1993). Revised: 5/30/2017 1 Bibliography and Resources Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 – 2016 https://www.edx.org/course/women-have-always-worked-u-s-experience-columbiax-whaw1-2x Sharon McConnell-Sidorick, Silk Stockings and Socialim: Philadelphia’s Radical Hosiery Workers from the Jazz Age to the New Deal (2017). Jennifer Scanlon, Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies’ Home Journal, Gender and the Promises of Consumer Culture (1995). Private Politics, Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal (2006). June Sochen, The New Woman in Greenwich Village, 1910-1920 (1972). Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (2001). Primary Sources Consumers League of New York City, The Truth About the Minimum Wage (1919). Edith Mae Cummings, Pots, Pans, and Millions: A Study of Woman’s Right to be in Business: Her Proclivities and Capacity for Success (1929). Miriam Simons Leuck, Fields of Work for Women (1926). John Sorensen and Judith Sealander, Editors, The Grace Abbott Reader (2008). Online Collections American Social Health Association Papers, 1905-1990, University of Minnesota. Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South, Duke University. Chronicling America: The Rise of the Flapper, Library of Congress. From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?, Cornell University. New South Voices, University of North Carolina. Rosenwald Schools of South Carolina: An Oral History Exhibit, University of South Carolina. The Public Writings and Speeches of Margaret Sanger, 1911-1960, New York University. Biography and Memoir Julia Allen, Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins (2013). Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, vol 1: 1884-1933 (1992). Angela Frank, Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility (2005). Margaret Sanger, My Fight for Birth Control (1932). Linda Wagner-Martin, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman’s Life (2004). Fiction Edna Ferber, So Big (1924). Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Home-maker (1924). Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope: Poems (1926). Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920). Section 13: The New Deal: Social Justice and Social Restrictions for Women and Families Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982), Chapter 9. Suzanne Mettler, Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy (1998). Revised: 5/30/2017 2 Bibliography and Resources Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 – 2016 https://www.edx.org/course/women-have-always-worked-u-s-experience-columbiax-whaw1-2x Julie Novkov, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive and New Deal Years (2001). Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987). Lois Scharf, To Work and to Wed: Female Employment, Feminism and the Great Depression (1980) Susan Ware, Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal (1981). Primary Sources Elna C. Green, Editor, Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women’s Letters during the Great Depression (2007). Margaret Hagood, Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman (1939). Cathy D. Knepper, Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt through Depression and War (2004). Premilla Nadasen, Jennifer Mittelstadt, and Marisa Chappell, Editors, Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, 1935-1996 (2009). Online Collections American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940, Library of Congress. Dorthea Lange Collection, 1919-1965, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA. Middletown Women’s History Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie, iN. Selections from the Zora Neale Hurston Papers, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Biography and Memoir Adele Crockett Robertson, The Orchard: A Memoir (1995). Fiction Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936). Section 14: Women of influence Brigid O’Farrell, She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker (2010). Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 (1995). Landon R. Y. Storrs, Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers’ League, Women’s Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era (2000). Primary Sources Eleanor Roosevelt, What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). Brigid O’Farrell and Joyce L. Kornbluth, Editors, Rocking the Boat: Union Women’s Voices, 1915-1975 (1996). Yvette Richards, Conversations with Maida Springer: A Personal History of Labor, Race, and International Relations (2004). Online Collections Revised: 5/30/2017 3 Bibliography and Resources Women Have Always Worked: The U.S. Experience 1920 – 2016 https://www.edx.org/course/women-have-always-worked-u-s-experience-columbiax-whaw1-2x Dorthea Lange Collection, 1919-1965, Oakland Museum of California. Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University. Marian Anderson Collection of Photographs, 1898-1992, University of Pennsylvania. Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator, Florida Memory: State Library and Archive of Florida. Biography and Memoir Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, vol. 2: 1933-1939 (1992). Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger, Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the United Auto Workers’ Union (2000). Kirsten Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience (2009). Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (2014). Carlton Jackson, Child of the Sit-Downs: The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger (2008). Vera Buch Weisbord, A Radical Life (1977). Alice Kessler-Harris: A Difficult Woman: the Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman (2012). Anne Meis Knuper, The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women’s Activism (2006). Nancy Long, The Life and Legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune (2008). Yvette Richards, Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (2000). Lara Vapnek, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary (2015). Mary Heaton Vorse, A Footnote to Folly: Reminiscences of Mary Heaton Vorse (1935). Susan Ware. Letter to the World: Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century (1998). Fiction Tess Slesinger, The Unpossessed (1993 [1934]). Meridel Le Sueur, The Girl (1930). Tillie Olsen, Yonnondio: From the Thirties (1974; [1932]). Mary Heaton Vorse, Gastonia (1929). Film With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (1977). Section 15: Was World War II a Watershed? Raising Questions of What’s Fair for Women and Men Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982), Chapter 10. George Lipsitz, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s
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