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Banner, Lois. American Beauty, New York: Knopf, 1983.
Barker-Benfield, G. J., and Catherine Clinton, eds. Portraits of American Women.
Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Linda Gordon, eds. America’s Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
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Bleser, Carol, ed. The Hammonds of Redcliffe. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981.
———. In Joy and In Sorrow: Women, Family and Marriage in the Victorian South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Blount, Jackie. Destined to Rule the Schools. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The National Experience. Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work.
Brewer, Priscilla. From Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Brodie, Janet Farrell. Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Brown, Jordan. Elizabeth Blackwell, Physician. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.
Brown, Thomas. Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
Burr, Virginia Ingraham, ed. The Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
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Carter, Alison. Underwear: The Fashion History. New York: Drama Book, 1992.
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Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Old Westbury, N.Y.: The Feminist Press, 1983.
Chace, Elizabeth Buffum, and Lucy Buffum Lovell. Two Quaker Sisters.
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Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom: A Life of Lydia Maria Child. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.
Clinton, Catherine. The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Hill & Wang, 1984.
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Collins, Gail. Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics. New York: Morrow, 1998.
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
Cummins, Maria Susanna. The Lamplighter. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
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Kaestle, Carl. Pillars of the Republic. New York: Hill & Wang, 1983.
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Kelley, Mary. The Portable Margaret Fuller. New York: Penguin Books.———. The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, distributed by Northeastern University Press, 1993.
Kemble, Frances Anne. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839.
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Kierner, Cynthia. Beyond the Household.
Larcom, Lucy. A New England Girlhood.
Larkin, Jack. The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790–1840.
Lebsock, Suzanne. The Free Women of Petersburg. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.
Lerner, Gerda. The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Marsh, Margaret, and Wanda Ronner. The Empty Cradle.
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———. Womanhood in America from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: New Viewpoints, 1975.
———. Women in Public. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
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Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. New York: Knopf, 1985.
Southworth, Emma. The Deserted Wife. New York: Street & Smith, 1855.
Stansell, Christine. City of Women. Sex and Class in New York, 1789–1860. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
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PERIODICALS
Boylan, Anne. “Women in Groups: An Analysis of Women’s Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston, 1797–1840.” Journal of American History 71, no. 3 (December 1984), pp. 497–523.
Bushman, Richard, and Claudia Bushman. “The Early History of Cleanliness.”
Cott, Nancy. “Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850.” Signs 4, no. 2 (1978), pp. 219–36.
Dye, Nancy Schrom, and Daniel Blake Smith. “Mother Love and Infant Death, 1750–1920.”
Glen, Myra. “School Discipline and Punishment in Antebellum America.” Journal of the Early Republi
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Hamilton, Marybeth. “The Life of a Citizen in the Hands of a Woman: Sexual Assault in New York City, 1790–1820.” In New York and the Rise of American Capitalism. New York Historical Society (Spring 1983).
Leavitt, Judith Walzer. “‘Science’ Enters the Birthing Room: Obstetrics in America Since the Eighteenth Century.” Journal of American History 70, no. 2 (September 1983), pp. 281–304.
Murray, Gail S. “Charity Within the Bounds of Race and Class: Female Benevolence in the Old South.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 96, no. 1 (January 1995), pp. 54–70.
Rosenberg, Charles. “Sexuality, Class and Role in 19th-Century America.” American Quarterly 25, no. 2 (May 1973), pp. 131–53.
Scholten, Catherine. “On the Importance of the Obstetrick Art: Changing Customs of Childbirth in America, 1760 to 1825.” William and Mary Quarterly 34, no. 3 (July 1977), pp. 426–45.
Smith-Rosenberg, Caroll. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America.” Signs I, no. 1 (1975), pp. 1–29.
Smith-Rosenberg, Caroll, and Charles Smith-Rosenberg. “The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America.” Journal of American History 60, no. 2 (September 1973), pp. 332–56.
Stearns, Bertha-Monica. “Reform Periodicals and Female Reformers.” American Historical Review 37, no. 4 (July 1932), pp. 678–99.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. “The Living Mother of a Living Child: Midwifery and Mortality in Post-Revolutionary New England.” William and Mary Quarterly 46, no. 1 (January 1989), pp. 27–48.
Vinovskis, Maris. “The Female School Teacher in Ante-Bellum Massachusetts.” Journal of Social History 10, no. 3 (March 1977), pp. 332–45.
Vinovskis, Maris, and Richard Bernard. “Beyond Catharine Beecher: Female Education in the Antebellum Period.” Signs 3, no. 4 (1978), pp. 856–69.
Welter, Barbara. “Anti-Intellectualism and the American Woman, 1800–1860.” Mid-America (October 1966), pp. 258–70.
———. “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820–1860.” American Quarterly 18, no. 2 (Summer 1966), pp. 151–74.
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Amott, Teresa, and Julie Matthaei. Race, Gender and Work.