Paper 24 reading list

Nancy A. Hewitt, ed., No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism (2010)
Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold
War, and Modern Feminism (1998)
James Reed, From Private Vice to Public Virtue: The Birth Control Movement and American Society
since 1830 (1978)
Leila Rupp and Verta Tyler, Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement: The
1940s to the 1960s (1987)
i. Feminist Legacies and Reactions
Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, eds., Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation
Movement (2001)
Donald T. Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in
Modern America (1999)
——, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade (2005)
David Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v Wade (1998)
Faye D. Ginsburg, Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community (1998)
Claudia Goldin, Understanding the Gender Gap (1990)
Susan Hartman, From Margins to Mainstream (1989)
Nancy MacLean, ed., The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000 (2009 )
Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
(2006)
5. AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL CULTURE
Topics include: the status of the intellectual in American society; the social history of the life of the mind,
including its gender and racial dynamics; regionalism in American thought; particular philosophical
moments, including Romanticism, Darwinism, Pragmatism, and Modernism; the professionalization of
intellectual discourse.
a. General
Thomas Bender, Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the
United States (1993)
Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg, eds., A Companion to American Thought (1995)
David Hollinger and Charles Capper, eds., The American Intellectual Tradition (2001)
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