Women and Law, Fall 2001, Working Bibliography

This is a preliminary bibliography, designed to give you some initial leads into areas of history and source materials. It is incomplete, do not rely on it as your only resource in preparing your seminar papers.

Primary Sources:

Legal:

For legal materials, you will need to use Lexis, which has state constitutions, state statutes, and state case law. Note: for some states, Lexis does not have a strong historical component, while for other states it does. For example, for Illinois, Lexis has 19^th century case law, for South Carolina, it does not. If you are interested in working on a project that involves state law, you will need to check Lexis to see what is available. If you cannot use Lexis, get in touch with me, and we can discuss how you can get legal materials at the Law Library.

Newspapers:

UF has a number of out of state newspapers in microfilm, including most of the major city newspapers, and quite a few regional papers. You should check for the online catalog for holdings for specific papers.

Magazines and journals:

There were a number of magazines and journals published in the 19^th and 20^th century that were written for women, or deal with women’s issues, or relate to questions of women and race. Among those available at UF are the following:

American Kitchen Magazine	Ms
Christian Lady’s Magazine	National Business Woman
Daughters of America	National Magazine
Education for Ladies	National NOW Times
Everyday Housekeeping	New Century for Women
Forerunner	New England Kitchen Magazine
Herstory	New Woman
Home Science Magazine	The Revolution
Independent Woman	The Woman Citizen
Ladies’ Garland	Womanhood
Ladies Home Magazine	Women’s Journal
Ladies’ Pearl	Women’s Journal and Suffrage News
Modern Housekeeping	Women

Other magazines that might be relevant are:

Alexander’s Magazine	Godey’s Lady’s Book
The Atlantic Monthly	Harper’s Weekly
The Black Man	Life
Colored America	Look
The Crisis	The Nation
The Crusader	The National Police Gazette
Ebony	Newsweek
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper	Time

Secondary Sources:

Articles

Journals

American Historical Review	Journal of Women’s History
Journal of American History	Law and History Review
Journal of American Legal History	Radical History Review
Journal of Negro History	Signs
Journal of Social History	William and Mary Quarterly
Journal of Southern History	Yale Journal of Law and Humanities

Monographs

These books are in addition to the books that are assigned for the class (see the syllabus).

1. General background (on reserve):

Baer, Judith. Women in American Law: The Struggle for Equality from the New Deal to the Present. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1996.

Evans, Sara. Born for Liberty:A History of Women in America. New York: Free Press, 1989.

Friedman, Lawrence M., History of American Law. 2d ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Friedman, Lawrence M. Crime and Punishment in American History. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Hall, Kermit. The Magic Mirror: Law in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Hoff, Joan. Law, Gender and Injustice: A Legal History of United States Women. New York: NYU Press, 1991.

Morris, Thomas. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Scott, Joan. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930. rev’d ed. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1995.

2. Crime (includes women as criminals, victims, reformers, and extralegal enforcement):

Bardaglio, Peter W. Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Brown, Katherine. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Punishment in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Clinton, Catherine, et al. The Devil’s Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Dale, Elizabeth. The Rule of Justice: The People of the City of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001.

Garrow, David. Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Gilfoyle, Timothy. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York: Norton, 1992.

Goodman, James. Stories of Scottsboro. New York: Pantheon, 1994.

Gordon, Linda. Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge; Harvard University Press, 1999.

Halttunen, Karen, Murder Most Foul. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Hamm, Richard F. Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture and the Polity, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Prss, 1995.

Hoffer, Peter and N E H Hull. Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803. New York: NYU Press, 1984.

Kamensky, Jane. Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York: Vintage Press, 1987.

McLane, Angus. A Proscription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr Thomas Neill Cream. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

McLaurin, Melton. Celia: A Slave. New York: Avon, 1991.

Morantz-Sanchez, Regina. Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn of the Century Brooklyn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Pucci, Idanna. The Trials of Maria Barbelle: The True Story of a Nineteenth Century Crime of Passion. New York: Vintage, 1996.

Rise, Eric. The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape and Capital Punishment. Charlotte: University of Virginia Press, 1995.

Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Weisenburger, Steven. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child Murder in the Old South. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

3. Citizenship and rights:

Bardaglio, Peter W. Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Clark, Claudia. Radiation Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Cott, Nancy F. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Dale, Elizabeth. Debating – and Creating – Authority: The Failure of A Constitutional Ideal in Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1649. Dartmouth: Ashgate Press, 2001.

Davis, Peggy. Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997.

Garrow, David. Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Gullet, Gayle. Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women’s Movement, 1880-1911. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Gustafson, Melanie, et al. We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Kamensky, Jane. Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Kierner, Cynthia A. Beyond the Household: Women’s Place in the Early South, 1700-1835. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Marshall, Susan. Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign Against Woman Suffrage. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

McLaurin, Melton. Celia: A Slave. New York: Avon Press, 1991.

Meyerowitz, Joanne. Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Newman, Louise. White Women’s Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Norton, Mary Beth. Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Founding of American Society. New York: Norton, 1991.

Paulson, Ross Evans. Liberty, Equality and Justice: Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and the Regulation of Business. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Stanley, Amy Dru. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Weisenburger, Steven, Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child Murder in the Old South. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

4. Domestic Relations and Sexuality (includes marriage, divorce, and contraception):

Bardaglio, Peter W. Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Brown, Katherine, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Punishment in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Clinton, Catherine, et al. The Devil’s Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Cott, Nancy F. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Davis, Peggy, Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997.

DiFonzo, Herbie, Beneath the Fault Line: The Popular and Legal Culture of Divorce Law in Twentieth Century America. Charlotte: University of Virginia Press, 1997.

Edwards, Laura F., Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Frankel, Noralee, Freedom’s Choice: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Garrow, David, Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Gordon, Linda. Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Cambridge; Harvard University Press, 1999.

Grossberg, Michael. A Judgment for Solomon: The d’Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Grossberg, Michael. Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Hoffer, Peter and N E H Hull, Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803. New York: NYU Press, 1984.

Larson, Edward, Sex, Race and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

McLaurin, Melton. Celia: A Slave. New York: Avon Press, 1991.

Stanley, Amy Dru, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Weisenburger, Steven. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child Murder in the Old South. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

5. Women at Work:

Clark, Claudia. Radiation Girls: Women and Industrial Health Reform, 1910-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Dale, Elizabeth. The Rule of Justice: The People of the City of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001.

Gilfoyle, Timothy. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York: Norton, 1992.

Goodman, James. Stories of Scottsboro. New York: Pantheon, 1994.

Meyerowitz, Joanne. Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Morantz-Sanchez, Regina. Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn of the Century Brooklyn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Pucci, Idanna. The Trials of Maria Barbelle: The True Story of a Nineteenth Century Crime of Passion. New York: Vintage, 1996.