Books

• Sole author, White Women’s Rights:  Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999. [Review by Karen Anderson] [Review by Gustafson] [Review by Haunani-Kay] [Review by Marshall] [Review by Sneider] [Review by Ware] [Buy Book]
•  Editor, Men’s Ideas/Women’s Realities: Popular Science, 1870-1915.  New York: Pergamon Press, 1985.  Critical introductions (150 pages) framing selections originally published in Popular Science Monthly. [Buy Book]

Articles

2015

•  “Reflections on Aileen Kraditor Legacy: Fifty Years of Woman Suffrage Historiography, 1965-2014,” The Journal for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14 (2015): 1-27.
• “The Woman Question in American Impressionist Painting,” contribution to exhibit catalogue, Monet and American Impressionism, Edited with an introduction by Dulce Roman (Gainesville: Harn Museum and the University Press of Florida, 2015).

2011    

• “Talking about a Revolution:  New Approaches to Writing the History of Second-Wave Feminism.” Journal of Women’s History 23.2 (Summer 2011): 219-228, 230.

2009

• “The Strange Career of Whiteness: Miscegenation, Assimilation, Abdication,” in Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity.  Eds. Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus.  Melbourne: The Department of History, University of Melbourne in association with RMIT University Press. 

2007

• “Women’s Rights, Race and Imperialism, 1870-1920” in Race, Nation and Empire in American History.  Eds. James Campbell, Matthew Guterl, and Robert Lee.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

2005

• “Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa:  Reflections on Margaret Mead’s Legacy for Western Liberal Feminism” in Reading Benedict/Reading Mead: Feminism, Race and Imperial Visions.  Eds. Lois W. Banner and Dolores Janiewski.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, pp. 51-69.

2004

• “Moving Beyond the Resistance/Accommodation Divide: Gender and Race in the Discourse of Booker T. Washington,” in Reconsidering the Legacy of Booker T. Washington. Ed. Fitzhugh Brundage.  Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp. 177-192.

2002

• “Health, Sciences and Sexualities in Victorian America.” A Companion to American Women’s History.  Ed. Nancy A. Hewitt.  London:  Blackwell Publishers, pp. 206-224.

2000

• “Making Boys into Men.” Gender and the Southern Body Politic.  Ed. Nancy Bercaw.  Oxford:  University of Mississippi Press,  pp. 154-160.

1996

• “Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa:  Reflections on Margaret Mead’s Legacy for Western Liberal Feminism.“ American Quarterly 48 (June 1996): 233-272.

1991

• “Critical Theory and the History of Women:  What’s At Stake in Deconstructing Women’s History.” Journal of Women’s History 2 (Winter 1991): 58-68.
• “From Coordination to Coeducation:  Pembrokers’ Struggle for Social Equality.” The Search for Equity: Women at Brown University, 1891-1991.  Ed. Polly Kaufman.  Hanover: University Press of New England, pp. 87-120.

 

Historiographic Review Articles

2015

• “New Perspectives on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott: A review of recent work on the history of nineteenth-century women’s rights.” Journal of Women’s History. 27.2 (Spring 2015).

 

Individual Book Reviews

(forthcoming)

• Pageants, Parlors & Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South. By Blain Roberts. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Review is for Louisiana History.

2015

• Bill and Hillary Clinton: The Politics of the Personal. By William H. Chafe.(Durham: Duke University Press, 2014). Reviewed in North Carolina Historical Review.  Spring 2015.

2014

• S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914:  Philadelphia’s Literary Physician.  By Nancy Cervetti, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.  Reviewed in The Journal of the Civil War Era.

2011

• The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen:  Florida’s First Congresswoman and America’s First Woman Diplomat.  By Sarah Pauline Vickers.  Tallahassee, FL: Sentry Press, 2009.  Reviewed in Florida Historical Quarterly.

2008

• Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.  By Anne M. Valk.  Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008.  Reviewed in Journal of American History, September 2008.

• Modern American Lives:  Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945.  By Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell.  Armonk and London:  M.E. Sharpe, 2008. Reviewed in Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 33.2 (Fall 2008): 111-112.

2007

• Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937.  By Katherine Ellinghaus.  Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Reviewed in Australian Historical Studies 38 n. 130 (October 2007): 356-57.

• Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America.  Eds. Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L.  Hall.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.  Reviewed in North Carolina Historical Review, 2007.

2005

• Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave. By Benita Roth.  Cambridge University Press, c. 2004.  Reviewed in Journal of American History (June 2005): 155.

• Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement.  By Carol Faulkner. Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, c. 2004. Pp. [viii], 200.  Reviewed in Journal of Southern History (May 2005): 177-178.

2003

• Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy:  Rethinking the Politics of American History.  By James Livingston.  New York and London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. [xi] 232.  Reviewed for H-SHAPE@h-net.msu.edu,  posted November 2003.

2002

• Common Ground: Reimagining American History.  By Gary Okihiro.  Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. [xvi], 158.  Reviewed in Journal of American History (December 2002): 1144-1145.

• Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights. By Ellen Carol DuBois.  Reviewed in Journal of American History (2002).

1996

• The First Woman in the Republic:  A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child.  By Carolyn L. Karcher. Reviewed in Race Traitor (1996).

1995

• Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism.  Eds. Nancy A. Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock. Reviewed in Florida Historical Quarterly 74 (Summer 1995): 85-87.

1994

• “The New Woman in Alabama:  Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920.  By Mary Martha Thomas.  Reviewed in Florida Historical Quarterly 73 (October 1994): 253-254.