Paper 24 reading list

Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Peter S. Onuf, All Over the Map:
Rethinking American Regions (1996)
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)
Brian W. Dippie, Custer’s Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth (1994)
John Mack Faragher, Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979)
Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999)
Richard Lowitt, ed., Politics in the Postwar American West (1995)
Gerald D. Nash, The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West (1999)
4. GENDER RELATIONS
Topics include: the origins, development and characteristics of the Women’s Rights Movement; Women’s
involvement in various reform movements; Women, Work and Domesticity; The intersection of gender,
race and class in the South.
a. General
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of a Gay World, 1890-1940
(1995)
Nancy F. Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2002)
Sarah M. Evans, Born for Liberty: a History of Women in America (1991)
David Leverenz, Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865–1940 (2003)
Nancy MacLean, Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2008)
Leila J. Rupp, A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America (1999)
Mary P. Ryan, Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History (2006)
Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (1988)
Allison L. Sneider, Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929
(2008)
b. Late Nineteenth-Century Women
Ruth Bordin, Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900 (1990)
Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (1977)
Carol Faulkner, Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement (2004)
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