Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. HistoryLike the other minor comprehensive exam lists, this one is only about 40 books on the subject, so it is far from being "comprehensive." Instead, this is kind of a collection of "the best of" for every chronological/thematic grouping included.
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Overviews
Colonial America
Revolutionary Era
Antebellum Period
Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Gender and Sexuality in the Twentieth Century
- D’Emilio, John, and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, Third Edition. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Hewitt, Nancy A. A Companion to American Women’s History. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002.
- Perdue, Theda, ed. Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Colonial America
- Block, Sharon. Rape and Sexual Power in Early America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
- Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
- Fischer, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Godbeer, Richard. Sexual Revolution in Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
- ———. “‘The Cry of Sodom’: Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England.” The William and Mary Quarterly 52, no. 2 (April 1, 1995): 259–86.
- Morgan, Jennifer L. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
- Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. New York: Knopf, 2002.
- Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Revolutionary Era
- Berkin, Carol. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence. New York: Knopf, 2005.
- Brekus, Catherine A. Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
- Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835. Second Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
- Lyons, Clare A. Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
- Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Antebellum Period
- Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Cohen, Patricia Cline. The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Knopf, 1998.
- Cott, Nancy F. “Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850.” Signs 4, no. 2 (1978): 219–36.
- Foster, Lawrence. Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 1991.
- Ginzberg, Lori D. “‘The Hearts of Your Readers Will Shudder’: Fanny Wright, Infidelity, and American Freethought.” American Quarterly 46, no. 2 (June 1, 1994): 195–226.
- Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Vintage, 2003.
- Isenberg, Nancy. Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
- Katz, Jonathan Ned. Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America.” Signs 1, no. 1 (1975): 1–29.
- Stansell, Christine. City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
- Welter, Barbara. “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860.” American Quarterly 18, no. 2 (July 1, 1966): 151–74.
Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction
- Camp, Stephanie M. H. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
- Glymph, Travolia. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Hunter, Tera W. To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
- Stevenson, Brenda E. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
- White, Deborah Gray. Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. Revised Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Blair, Cynthia M. I’ve Got to Make My Livin’: Black Women’s Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001.
- Duggan, Lisa. “The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America.” Signs 18, no. 4 (1993): 791–814.
- Feimster, Crystal N. Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Freedman, Estelle B. “‘Crimes Which Startle and Horrify’: Gender, Age, and the Racialization of Sexual Violence in White American Newspapers, 1870-1900.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, no. 3 (2011): 465–97.
- Frisken, Amanda. Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
- Gardner, Martha. The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009.
- Goldberg, Michael Lewis. An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
- Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.
- Hoganson, Kristin L. Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- ———. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
- Lui, Mary Ting Li. The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
- Pascoe, Peggy. Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Gender and Sexuality in the Twentieth Century
- Bailey, Beth L. Sex in the Heartland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.
- Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
- Clement, Elizabeth Alice. Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
- Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. Columbia University Press, 1991.
- Igra, Anna R. Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900-1935. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
- Kunzel, Regina G. Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Meyerowitz, Joanne J. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Reis, Elizabeth. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. Reprint edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
- Shah, Nayan. Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
- Somerville, Siobhan B. Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2000.
- Stryker, Susan. Transgender History. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008.