Coming of Age in Mississippi100 reviews Anne Moody Dell, 1992 Coming of Age + Couldn't put it down + Jackson, Ms. + Amazing. A MUST read.             Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier2 reviews Alfred F. Young Knopf, 2004 An historian with both intellect and heart. + Well researched interesting biography "The heroism of the females of the Revolution has gone from memory", said John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, in a eulogy to Deborah Sampson Gannett, the nearly forgotten female soldier who is the subject of this excellent biography. (Indeed! How many Americans know that ...             Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-19301 review Patricia A. Schechter The University of North Carolina Press, 2001 One Brave Black Woman's Struggle to be Heard The end of the Civil War in 1865 marked a new beginning for freed slaves but merely having won their freedom did not guarantee their acceptance as equals by white society. In fact, southern whites almost immediately began a campaign to resubjugate blacks using every means at their disposal ...             The Autobiography Of Eleanor Roosevelt (Quality Paperbacks Series)7 reviews Eleanor Roosevelt Da Capo Press, 2000 A Remarkable Woman + Copelling read + Completing the ER collection: This book sheds light a long period of American history through the narration of an amazing woman who you will grow to admire as much as I did. Born into an elite aristocratic American family, Eleanor could have remained hemmed in by the insular values with which she was raised. Women were ...             Twenty Years at Hull-House (Signet Classics)16 reviews Jane Addams Signet Classics, 1999 A true pioneer of social reform! + Spoiled rich kid seeking attention + America's Secular Saint + Hull HOuse + Such a strong woman             The Murder of Helen Jewett25 reviews Patricia Cline Cohen Vintage, 1999 Whodunit?! The O. J. Simpson trial of the 19th century + truecrimelessons + Murder in Jacksonian America + Murder in Jacksonian New York             A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-181238 reviews Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Vintage, 1991 Amazingly preserved firsthand account of colonial America + Rural Colonial Life is More Interesting Than You Think + Midwife's Tale I greatly enjoyed this book, which gave a truly unique and rare perspective into female life in early Colonial New England. Thoroughly absorbing the chapters is truly co-dependent on simultaneously reading through the footnotes at the back, so know in advance that there will be a lot of flipping ...             The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke1 review Gerda Lerner Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Feminist thoughts Lerner's collection of essays from the Grimke sisters helps to reveals some of the roots of the first wave feminist movement. The letter to Queen Vicotria is especially revealing in how the sisters felt morally tied to such royal blood. Overall the book does a great job of portraying the ...             Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)3 reviews Barbara Ransby The University of North Carolina Press, 2005 a decisive American life--and a first rate biography + More pieces of the puzszle + Phenomenal book about a phenomenal woman Ella Baker must be the most underrated figure in U.S. history. There are plenty of Presidents who have done less to shape their own times than Ella Baker. She decisively shaped two of the most important national civil rights organizations--the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...             Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture, 1830-1900 Kathryn Kish Sklar Yale University Press, 1997 One of America's foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book is also a political history of the United States during a period of transforming change, when women worked to end the abuses of unregulated industrial capitalism. This first of a two-volume series covers the first 40 years of Florence Kelley's life. 53 ...             All in the Day's Work: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY1 review Ida M. Tarbell University of Illinois Press, 2003 Great woman, underestimated by historians Miss Tarbell played a major role in the fall of the industry-titans, like Rockefeller and o             Mary Chesnut's Civil War8 reviews Mary Chesnut Yale University Press, 1993 Immerse Yourself In Chesnut's Suffering World + like talking to a friend + The Political Matron Sees the South + Historic gossip & chatter.             Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol8 reviews Nell Irvin Painter W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 A Nearly Perfect Book + Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol + Short and very readable book , but quite illuminating + An incredible biography + SOJOURNER TRUTH A LIFE A SYMBOL             Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century ...4 reviews Donald T. Critchlow Princeton University Press, 2005 To disagree with somebody, first find out where they are coming from + Phyllis Schlafly: A Catalyst in America's Shift to the Right + Big Book on a Giant Figure in American Politics Donald T. Critchlow, the ever-prolific profssor of policy studies has performed a daunting task. In this book, he wrote a critical but balanced biography of Phyllis Schlafly. Schlafly is the female new right activist who claims sole responsibility for defeating the Equal Rights Amendment in ...             Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage1 review Ellen Carol DuBois Yale University Press, 1999 An able biography of a leading figure in women's history This is a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in women's history in general and the woman suffrage movement in particular. Blatch bridged the generations from the founders of the women's rights movement, including her mother Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to the younger radicals such as Alice ...             Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn9 reviews Regina Morantz-Sanchez Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 Engagingly and flawlessly argued + a great academic OR recreational read + A fabulous read + Gripping, Insightful and Intelligent             Revolt Against Chivalry1 review Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Columbia University Press, 1993 insightful! I used this book to write my senior thesis, and it really helped me with a comprehensive analysis of the social backgrounds of post-civil war (and post-slavery) racism, violence and gender relations. It really emphasizes the link between lynching and the "cult of southern womanhood" neccesary for ...             Typhoid Mary7 reviews Judith Walzer Leavitt Beacon Press, 1997 Captive to the Public Imagination + A COMMUNITY HEALTH PROBLEM IN THE PREANTIBIOTIC ERA + In Depth Read + Correction of error in Publisher's Weekly review + Worthwhile Read             Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique": The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism3 reviews Daniel Horowitz University of Massachusetts Press, 2000 Facinating insight on a pivotal figure in American feminism + Explores the "missing past" for Betty Friedan In a clear-eyed yet obviously compassionate examination of Betty Friedan, the "mother" of modern American feminism,Horowitz reveals that his subject was far more worldly and politically concious than she indicated in her 1963 ground breaker. Although some of today's generation-- whether feminists ...             Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger1 review David M. Kennedy Yale University Press, 1970 Hero for Women's Rights Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger. By David M. Kennedy. 320 pp. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1970. $30. David Kennedy is the McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Reflecting his interdisciplinary training ...