*Also see the library's pathfinder on Women in Business.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF HD 6054.4.U6S55 Enterprising Women: Lessons from 100 of the Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Day

REF Q141.B42 1993 Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and
Momentous Discoveries

REF Q 130.W6 1988 Women in Science

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Bonta, Marcia. American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists. College Station: Texas A&M University, 1995.

• A collection of biographies about leading women naturalists including Susan Fenimore Cooper, Cordelia Stanwood, Amelia Laskey, Rachel Carson, and others.

Carson, Rachel. & Martha E. Freeman. Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

• Correspondence between to environmentalists who first met while vacationing summers in Maine’s Southport Island.

Chesler, Ellen. Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

• Biography of Margaret Sanger, the founder of the Birth Control League and a 
  Major advocate of population control and the individual rights of every woman to control her own body. 

Cleaveland, Agnes Morley. No Life for a Lady. Lincoln: University of 
Nebraska Press, 1977.

• Biography of woman pioneer in New Mexico.

Eisler, Benita. The Lowell Offering: Writing by New England Mill Women (1840-1845). New York: Harper, 1980.

• The life and customs of the Lowell mill girls.

Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

• Biographies of such notable in the field of social reform as Sophonisha 
  Breckinridge, Edith Abbottt, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor.
  These social activists promoted public awareness of modern social problems 
  during the early part of the 20th century.

Fowler, Robert Booth. Carrie Catt: Feminist Politician. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986.

• This book was compiled from Carrie Catt’s speeches and letters. Catt was the Founder of the League of Women Voters.

French, Emily. Emily, the Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

• The life and customs of a pioneer woman in Colorado in the 1800’s.

Kerber, Linda K. Women’s America: Refocusing the Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

• Discusses the role of women during from the agrarian society of the 1820’s 
  to industrialization and urbanization. 

Madsel, Axel. Chanel: A Woman of Her Own. New York: H. Holt, 1990.

• Biography of fashion icon Coco Chanel, who rose from her humble beginnings to become an international fashion designer. 

Okin, Susan Moller. Women in Western Political Thought. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992.

• Women’s role in western political thinking.

Payne, Elizabeth Anne. Reform, Labor, and Feminism. Urbana: University 
Of Illinois Press, 1988.

• In 1903 Margaret Dreier Robins founded the National Women’s Trade Union 
  League which focused on improving the needs of working women. Areas 
  such as minimum wage, child labor legislation, and health education were 
  among its concerns. 

Rustad, Michael. Women in Khaki: The American Unlisted. New York: New York: Praeger, 1982.

• The role of women in the Women’s Army Corps.

Schiebinger, Londa L. The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of
Modern Science. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1989. 

• The author purports that in terms of intellectual there should be no distinction between men and women. 

Selden, Bernice. The Mill Girls: Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, Sarah G. Bagley. New York: Atheneum, 1983.

• Focuses on the lives of four girls who worked in the textile mills of Lowell
  Massachusetts during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Spain, Daphne. Gendered Spaces. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina 
Press, 1992.

• Discusses the concept of how a woman’s status is determined by space and 
  environment.

Spears, Betty Mary. Leading the Way: Amy Morris Homans and the Beginnings of Professional Education for Women. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

• Ann Morris Homans was a Wellesley College professor who introduced 
  physical education as a viable profession for women. 

Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta Burgess, Lauren Cook. The Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Private Lyons Wakeman 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers. Pasadena, Maryland: The Minerva Center, 1994.

• Disguised as men, the women soldiers, made an important contribution to the Civil War effort. 

Wexler, Alice. Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life. New York: Pantheon, 
1984.

• Chronicles the labor struggles and campaigns for women’s rights and sexual 
  freedom from a leading social reformer.

   

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