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the Georgetown Law
School yearly catalog, The Bulletin , 1950-1951
Abortion
Jill Brenner, What if There Are
No Damsels in Distress? JANE: A Paradigm for the Future
(2002)
Summary
Courtney Charity, Marching Towards Roe: An Examination of Abortion History From 1945-1973 (2007)
Summary
Rebecca Cook, The Abortion Provision
of the 1837 Draft of the Indian Penal Code (1982)
Summary
Anna Maria Diamanti, The Road to
Roe : Consciousness Raising and the Abortion
Rights Movement (1999)
Summary
Mauri Cummins Kassner, Obscenity
and Abortion Legislation in Maryland in the Late Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth Centuries (1984)
Summary
Kristin Mackert, To Bear or Not
to Bear: Abortion in Victorian America (1990)
Summary
Jacqueline Tully, Representation
of Women in Popular Media—The Abortion Issue: 1960-1965
(2002)
Summary
Top of List
Adoption
Pattiann Ciaramella, Nineteenth
Century America and the Passage of the First Adoption
Statute in New York State (1987)
Summary
Cam Moultrie, Coloring the Lines in Transracial Adoption (2004)
Summary
Amy Wilkinson-Hagen, Who’s Saving
Whom from What and Why?” -- Placing the National Florence
Crittenton Mission in Its Social and Legal Context,
Illinois 1883 - 1933 (2003)
Summary
Top of List
Athletics
Melissa D. Blevins, Title IX: Too Strong for
Women? -- A History of the First Decade in the
Struggle for Equal Rights in College Athletics
(2003)
Summary
Top of List
Biography
Sabahat Chaudhary, Domesticating America: Florence Kelley, The Crusade for Labor Reform, and The Changed American Woman at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (2006)
Summary
Elizabeth Connelly, Face Off: Gloria Steinem and Her Battle for ERA Ratification (2006)
Summary
Jette Gebhart, Mercy Otis Warren
and the Republican Moment (2002)
Summary
Amy Hancock, Myra Bradwell and the
Struggle for Women’s Legal Equality (1983)
Summary
Elizabeth King, Miss Mary E.W. Risteau:
Maryland’s Pioneer Woman Legislator (1992)
Summary
Lisa Kutlin, Congresswoman Mary T. Norton: Matriarch of the Living Wage (2004)
Summary
Christine Lamble, Mary White Ovington:
NAACP Founder and Social Activist (2002)
Summary
Nona Corrine Liegeois, Ethel Rosenberg:
The Unnaturalization and Criminalization of a Communist
Wife (1995)
Summary
Deborah Markowitz, In Pursuit of
Equality: One Woman's Work to Change the Law ,
11 Women's Rts. L. Rptr. 73 (1989). [Subject: Ruth
Bader Ginsburg]
Summary
Michelle Moschella, Myra Colby Bradwell:
A Decade of Legislative Reform in Illinois (1996)
Summary
Sarah Westergren, “Neither Forget Nor
Remember That You Are a Woman”: Gender and the Experience
of Early Women Judges (2003)
Summary
Top of List
Birth
Control
Elizabeth Gildea Logie, The Opposition
of the Catholic Church to Repeal of the Federal Comstock
Legislation 1914-1936 (1987)
Summary
Marion Stillson, The Confluence
of Choice and Chance in the Construction of a Successful
Legal Strategy: A Case Study of Griswold v. Connecticut
(1986)
Summary
Jane Zara, Legal and Societal
Factors Affecting the Development of Oral
Contraceptives for Women (2003)
Summary
Top of List
Burlesque
Emma Filstrup, Bring Out the Girls: A Legal History of Burlesque in New York City (2004)
Summary
Canon Law
Michelle Kaplan, Annulments in the
Catholic Church: Regulation Under the Code of Canon
Law (1988)
Summary
Top of List
Case
Studies
Suman Chakraborty, Sexual Politics
and the Alien Invert: Boutillier v. I.N.S. (2000)
Summary
Adam Goldstein, Nineteenth Century
Gender Roles and the Murder Trial of Mary Harris
(1997)
Summary
Elizabeth Ungar Natter, Goeseart v.
Cleary : A History (1984)
Summary
Karen E. Siciliano, The Kate Southern
Trial: Explaining and Punishing Female Criminal Behavior
in Georgia, 1878 (2000)
Summary
Marion Stillson, The Confluence
of Choice and Chance in the Construction of a Successful
Legal Strategy: A Case Study of Griswold v. Connecticut
(1986)
Summary
Holly Streeter, The Sordid Trial
of Laura D. Fair: Victorian Family Values (1995)
Summary
Cathy Briskie Teleky, Minor v. Happersett:
A Cause Ahead of its Time (1985)
Summary
Arthur Whang, A Case at the Crossroads:
Craig v. Boren , An Historical Analysis
(1998)
Summary
Top of List
Chastisement
Marjorie Brown, Chastisement: Wives
and Slaves in Nineteenth Century North Carolina
(1983)
Summary
Top of List
Child Care
Claudia Conroy, The 1919 I.L.O.
Convention Concerning the Employment of Women Before
and After Childbirth: U.S. Involvement and Ultimate
Failure to Ratify (1986)
Summary
Susan Damplo, Federally Sponsored
Childcare During World War II: An Idea before its
Time (1987)
Summary
Amy Wilkinson-Hagen, Who’s Saving
Whom from What and Why?” -- Placing the National Florence
Crittenton Mission in Its Social and Legal Context,
Illinois 1883 - 1933 (2003)
Summary
Top of List
Child
Custody
Bibi Berry, A Shift in Child Custody
Standards: From a Maternal Presumption to Gender Neutral
Standards (2001)
Summary
Pattiann Ciaramella, Nineteenth
Century America and the Passage of the First Adoption
Statute in New York State (1987)
Summary
Lisa Rosenmertz Freed, The Rise
and Fall of 19 th Century Indentured Servitude: A
Discussion of the Movement of New York Children to
the West (1990)
Summary
Rebecca Spiro, From Parents’ Rights
to the Best Interests of Children: American Child
Custody in Historical and Feminist Perspective, 1750-1899
(1999)
Summary
Amy Talburt, The Indian Child Welfare
Act of 1978 (2000)
Summary
Top of List
Communism
Nona Corrine Liegeois, Ethel Rosenberg:
The Unnaturalization and Criminalization of a Communist
Wife (1995)
Summary
Top of List
Comstock
Laws
Elizabeth Gildea Logie, The Opposition
of the Catholic Church to Repeal of the Federal Comstock
Legislation 1914-1936 (1987)
Summary
Top of List
Constitutional
Law
Elizabeth Connelly, Face Off: Gloria Steinem and Her Battle for ERA Ratification (2006)
Summary
JenniferGranat, The Failure of
the Equal Rights Amendment (1997)
Summary
Sharon Kettering, The Supreme Court
and the Minimum Wage Law for Women (1987)
Summary
Deborah Markowitz, In Pursuit of
Equality: One Woman's Work to Change the Law ,
11 Women's Rts. L. Rptr. 73 (1989).
Summary
Arthur Whang, A Case at the Crossroads:
Craig v. Boren , An Historical Analysis
(1998)
Summary
Top of List
Contraceptives
Jane Watson Grover, Rubber Contraceptives
and the Law in the 19th Century United States
(1988)
Summary
Top of List
Criminal
Law
Rebecca Burkholder, Massachusetts
Reformatory for Women: The Superintendents 1877-1930
(1988)
Summary
Erica Dominitz, In Flagrante Delicto
(1995)
Summary
Adam Goldstein, Nineteenth Century
Gender Roles and the Murder Trial of Mary Harris
(1997)
Summary
Chris Jacobson, The Scottsboro Saga:
An Ideology on Trial (1992)
Summary
Katya Jestin, The Execution of Mary
Surratt: A Dialogue on Gender in the Nineteenth Century
(1996)
Summary
Nona Corrine Liegeois, Ethel Rosenberg:
The Unnaturalization and Criminalization of a Communist
Wife (1995)
Summary
Kara Major, Criminalizing Seduction: Prostitution, Moral Reform and the New York Anti-Seduction Law of 1848 (2004)
Summary
Karen E. Siciliano, The Kate Southern
Trial: Explaining and Punishing Female Criminal Behavior
in Georgia, 1878 (2000)
Summary
Margaret Stern, New York’s Corroboration
Requirement: Women Effecting Change (1991)
Summary
Holly Streeter, The Sordid Trial
of Laura D. Fair: Victorian Family Values (1995)
Summary
Laurie Sullivan, Manipulation of
the Presumption of a Husband’s Coercion in Criminal
Trials of Wives in the Nineteenth Century (2000)
Summary
Matt Warren, “ An Assurance
to Every Mother and A Shield To Every Daughter”: Seduction,
Vengeance, and Courtroom Narratives in Nineteenth
Century Maryland (2002)
Summary
Rebecca Young, From Hopelessness to Hope: Surveying the Women's Prison Reformatory Movement (2006)
Summary
Top of List
Divorce
Lora Liss, Women’s Rights to Property
at Divorce in Early Maryland: From Colonial to Modern
Times (1982)
Summary
Donna Young, Divorce in Nineteenth
Century Washington County, District of Columbia
(1985)
Summary
Top of List
Domestic
Violence
Marjorie Brown, Chastisement: Wives
and Slaves in Nineteenth Century North Carolina
(1983)
Summary
Tamara Tompkins, Domestic Violence
as a Violation of Women’s Human Rights: Toward a Theory
of State Responsibility (1993)
Summary
Top of List
Earnings
Statutes
Nina Elgo, Earnings Statutes of
Illinois and Maryland (1989)
Summary
Top of List
Education
Kimberly Bingaman, Civilization out
of Savagery: Construcions of Motherhood and American
Indian Boarding Schools From 1879-1934 (2003)
Summary
Melissa D. Blevins, Title IX: Too Strong for
Women? -- A History of the First Decade in the
Struggle for Equal Rights in College Athletics
(2003)
Summary
Katherine Collins, Gender Integration
at the University of Virginia (2000)
Summary
Aimee Imundo, WAM-Bam Thank You
Ma’am: The G.I. Bill of Rights and Women’s Education
in the Post-War Years (1991)
Summary
Rosa Wiener, Pregnant Teachers in
the Classroom (1987)
Summary
Top of List
Employment
Cathryn Claussen, Gendered Merit:
Women and the Merit Concept in Federal Employment,
1864-1944 , 40 Am. J. Legal Hist. 229 (1996)
Summary
Claudia Conroy, The 1919 I.L.O.
Convention Concerning the Employment of Women Before
and After Childbirth: U.S. Involvement and Ultimate
Failure to Ratify (1986)
Summary
Susan Damplo, Federally Sponsored
Childcare During World War II: An Idea before its
Time (1987)
Summary
Denise Dunkin, The Pregnancy Discrimination
Act of 19778 (1998)
Summary
Cheryl A. Heeke, Rosie the Riveter:
Study of the Conditions and Effects of Female Participation
in the World War II Labor Force (1982)
Summary
Caroline Kane, Equal Work Statutes v. Comparable Work Statutes: Does the Distinctino Matter Anymore? (2004)
Summary
Steven Lim, The Effect of Veterans’
Reemployment Rights, Veterans Preference Laws, and
Protective Labor Laws on the Status of Women Workers
in the World War II Period , 2 Hofstra Lab. L.J.
301 (1985)
Summary
Carolyn Ann Newman, The Women’s
Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s: Voices of
Change (1991)
Summary
Rosa Wiener, Pregnant Teachers in
the Classroom (1987)
Summary
Top of List
Equal Rights Amendment
Elizabeth Connelly, Face Off: Gloria Steinem and Her Battle for ERA Ratification (2006)
Summary
Granat, Jennifer, The Failure of
the Equal Rights Amendment (1997)
Summary
Erik Kenerson, Be Careful What You Wish For: How Discrimination Based on Social Function Was Nearly Official United States Policy (2007)
Summary
Top of List
Eugenics
Veronica E. Hemrich, Eugenic Marriage
and Sterilization in Early Twentieth Century America
(1989)
Summary
Rachel Silber, Eugenics, Family
and Immigration Laws in the 1920s , 11 Geo. Immigr.
L.J. 859 (1997)
Summary (not yet available)
Top of List
Homosexuality
Suman Chakraborty, Sexual Politics
and the Alien Invert: Boutillier v. I.N.S. (2000)
Summary
Top of List
Immigration
Karen Akiyama, From Prostitutes
to Picture Brides: The Immigration of Japanese Women
to the United States 1884-1919 (1986)
Summary
Suman Chakraborty, Sexual Politics
and the Alien Invert: Boutillier v. I.N.S. (2000)
Summary
Bina Kalola, Immigration Laws and
the Immigrant Woman: 1885-1924 (1996)
Summary
Rachel Silber, Eugenics, Family
and Immigration Laws in the 1920s , 11 Geo. Immigr.
L.J. 859 (1997)
Summary (not yet available)
Elia Colasacco Walsh, Pane e Rose:
The Italian Immigrant Woman and her Role in the Creation
of Labor Legislation in the New York Garment Industry,
1886-1927 (1988)
Summary
Top of List
Indentured
Servitude
Lisa Rosenmertz Freed, The Rise
and Fall of 19 th Century Indentured Servitude: A
Discussion of the Movement of New York Children to
the West (1990)
Summary
Top of List
Jewish
Law
Jessica Davidson Miller, The History
of the Agunah in America: A Clash of Religious Law
and Social Progress , 19 Women’s Rights L. Rep.
1 (1997)
Summary
Top of List
Jury
Service
Kimberly Weber Herlihy, Women on
Juries: The Battles in Florida (1997)
Summary
Top of List
Labor
Movements
Susan Bernstein, The Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory (1992)
Summary
Sabahat Chaudhary, Domesticating America: Florence Kelley, The Crusade for Labor Reform, and The Changed American Woman at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (2006)
Summary
Cheryl A. Heeke, Rosie the Riveter:
Study of the Conditions and Effects of Female Participation
in the World War II Labor Force (1982)
Summary
Top of List
Legal
Profession
Mary Clark, The Founding of the
Washington College of Law: The First Law School Established
by Women for Women , 47 Am. U. L. Rev. 613 (1998)
Summary
Claudia Conroy, The 1919 I.L.O.
Convention Concerning the Employment of Women Before
and After Childbirth: U.S. Involvement and Ultimate
Failure to Ratify (1986)
Summary
SarahAnne Cutler, Mrs. Ward Cleaver,
Esq.: Women in the Legal Profession in the 1950s;
Or How to Succeed in Law When You May Not Rock the
Boat (and There is No Seat for You) (2000)
Summary
Amy Hancock, Myra Bradwell and the
Struggle for Women’s Legal Equality (1983)
Summary
Deborah Markowitz, In Pursuit of
Equality: One Woman's Work to Change the Law ,
11 Women's Rts. L. Rptr. 73 (1989).
Summary
Julia Pinover, Breaking Into the Boys' Club: Women Lawyers in the Twentieth Century (2007)
Summary
Mary Eigel Schifferli, A Comparative
Study of Women’s Reasons for Entering the Legal Profession
in the Late 1880s (1986)
Summary
Top of List
Lynching
Chris Jacobson, The Scottsboro Saga:
An Ideology on Trial (1992)
Summary
Amy Karen Phillips, The Southern
Rape and Lynching Complex: The Subordination of Southern
Women Through a Mechanism of White Supremacy
(1996)
Summary
Deleso Alford Washington, Exploring
the Black Wombman's Sphere and the Anti-Lynching Crusade
of the Early Twentieth Century, 3 Geo. J. Gender
& L. 895 (2003)
Summary (Not Available)
Top of List
Marriage
Karen Akiyama, From Prostitutes
to Picture Brides: The Immigration of Japanese Women
to the United States 1884-1919 (1986)
Summary
Royce Bernstein, Friend or Foe:
Mormon Women’s Suffrage as a Pawn in the Polygamy
Debate, 1856-1896 (1999)
Summary
Michelle Kaplan, Annulments in the
Catholic Church: Regulation Under the Code of Canon
Law (1988)
Summary
Kendra Matthews, Breach of Promise
to Marry in Illinois: An Action that Belongs in the
Past (1995)
Summary
Jessica Davidson Miller, The History
of the Agunah in America: A Clash of Religious Law
and Social Progress , 19 Women’s Rights L. Rep.
1 (1997)
Summary
Laurie Sullivan, Manipulation of
the Presumption of a Husband’s Coercion in Criminal
Trials of Wives in the Nineteenth Century (2000)
Summary
Top of List
Medical
Profession
Cassandra T. Kamuchey, The Demise of
the Massachusetts Midwife (1990)
Summary
Elizabeth Kingsley, Women Health
Care Providers in Maryland: The Impact of Professionalization
(1993)
Summary
Top of List
Mental
Health
Pamela Berger, Sterilization in
Virginia: Fireships into Hewers of Wood and Drawers
of Water (1985)
Summary
Suman Chakraborty, Sexual Politics
and the Alien Invert: Boutillier v. I.N.S. (2000)
Summary
Kathleen Pawlowski, Civil Commitment
of Women to Mental Institutions in the Nineteenth
Century: A Case Study of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
1880-1900 (1988)
Summary
Top of List
Midwifery
Cassandra T. Kamuchey, The Demise of
the Massachusetts Midwife (1990)
Summary
Top of List
Military
James Bond, The Class of 1980 and
the Armored Curtain: A Look Back at the Legislation
That Opened the Doors of the Service Academies to
Women (2003)
Summary
Top of List
Miscegenation
Meghan Carr, The Color of the Law: Virginia's Miscegenation Regime in the Early Twentieth Century (2007)
Summary
Nedra Austin, Anti-Miscegenation
Laws and the Negro Woman (1987)
Summary
Top of List
Native
Americans and Gender
Kimberly Bingaman, Civilization
out of Savagery: Construcions of Motherhood and American
Indian Boarding Schools From 1879-1934 (2003)
Summary
Sarah Fassett, Navajo Women’s Story
1868 to 1960: Separation of the Sexes (1986)
Summary
Andrew Gilden, Preserving the Seeds of Gender Fluidity: Tribal Courts and the Berdache Tradition (2006)
Summary
Amy Talburt, The Indian Child Welfare
Act of 1978 (2000)
Summary
Top of List
Peace
Movement
Jerri Mauldin, The Vietnam War Peace
Movement and the Role Women Played: Personally and
Politically (2002)
Summary
Top of List
Polygamy
Royce Bernstein, Friend or Foe:
Mormon Women’s Suffrage as a Pawn in the Polygamy
Debate, 1856-1896 (1999)
Summary
Maria Kokiasmenos, The Dictates of Conscience: Mormon Polygamy and Conflict with the Federal Government (2004)
Summary
Top of List
Pornography
Jon Massimino, Pornography in the
American Century: An Analysis of the Gender and Legal
History of Pornography in American Culture and The
Attack of the Radical Feminists (2003)
Summary
Top of List
Pregnancy
Claudia Conroy, The 1919 I.L.O.
Convention Concerning the Employment of Women Before
and After Childbirth: U.S. Involvement and Ultimate
Failure to Ratify (1986)
Summary
Denise Dunkin, The Pregnancy Discrimination
Act of 19778 (1998)
Summary
Rosa Wiener, Pregnant Teachers in
the Classroom (1987)
Summary
Amy Wilkinson-Hagen, Who’s Saving
Whom from What and Why?” -- Placing the National Florence
Crittenton Mission in Its Social and Legal Context,
Illinois 1883 - 1933 (2003)
Summary
Top of List
Prisons
Rebecca Burkholder, Massachusetts
Reformatory for Women: The Superintendents 1877-1930
(1988)
Summary
Rebecca Young, From Hopelessness to Hope: Surveying the Women's Prison Reformatory Movement (2006)
Summary
Top of List
Prohibition
Jeremy D. Baker, Repealing Gender Norms: Women and Prohibition (2006)
Summary
Top of List
Property
Judith Cole, “A Wide Field for Usefulness”:
Women’s Civil Status on the Montana Frontier, 1864-1914
(1986)
Summary
Jennifer Darcy, The Revenue Act
of 1948 and the Movement toward Income Splitting
(1998)
Summary
Lora Liss, Women’s Rights to Property
at Divorce in Early Maryland: From Colonial to Modern
Times (1982)
Summary
Top of List
Prostitution
Karen Akiyama, From Prostitutes to Picture
Brides: The Immigration of Japanese Women to the United
States 1884-1919 (1986)
Summary
Bridget Allison, Bad Girls and the
Men Who Hate Them: A Discussion of the Boston Bawdyhouse
Riots of 1825 (1998)
Summary
Kendel Drew, Save the Girls! America's Fear of White Slavery (2006)
Summary
Lynn Kappelman, Prostitution in
the Progressive Era: Reform Movements in Three Jurisdictions
(1988)
Summary
Kara Major, Criminalizing Seduction: Prostitution, Moral Reform and the New York Anti-Seduction Law of 1848 (2004)
Summary
Tovah Minster, One Out of Fifty:
Legalized Prostitution in the State of Nevada
(2003)
Summary
Polly Myers, Changes in the Maryland
Statutory Rape Laws During the Progressive Era
(1987)
Summary
Top of List
Protective
Labor Legislation
Susan Bernstein, The Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory (1992)
Summary
Sabahat Chaudhary, Domesticating America: Florence Kelley, The Crusade for Labor Reform, and The Changed American Woman at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (2006)
Summary
Michael Herde, Seats and Washrooms:
Single-Sex Protective Labor Legislation in Pennsylvania
(1988)
Summary
Sharon Kettering, The Supreme Court
and the Minimum Wage Law for Women (1987)
Summary
Katie Lasky, Women and Night Work
in New York State (2002)
Summary
Elizabeth Ungar Natter, Goeseart v.
Cleary : A History (1984)
Summary
Elyssa Santos-Abrams, From the Kingdom
of Necessity to the Kingdom of Freedom: Florence Kelley
and the Illinois Labor Reforms of the 1890s
(1999)
Summary
Elia Colasacco Walsh, Pane e Rose:
The Italian Immigrant Woman and her Role in the Creation
of Labor Legislation in the New York Garment Industry,
1886-1927 (1988)
Summary
Top of List
Race
and Gender
Tanya Boyle, The Social and Legal
Status of Free Women of Color in Nineteenth Century
Louisiana (2001)
Summary
Jennifer R. Coates, Interracial Concubinage in Territorial New Orleans (2007)
Summary
Chris Jacobson, The Scottsboro Saga:
An Ideology on Trial (1992)
Summary
Samuel Josephs, Whose Revolution is This? Gender's Divisive Role in the Black Panther Party (2007)
Summary
Christine Lamble, Mary White Ovington:
NAACP Founder and Social Activist (2002)
Summary
Diane Russell, Rape: The Legislation
of Racial and Sexual Morality in 19 th Century Virginia
(1992)
Summary
Top of List
Rape
Chris Jacobson, The Scottsboro Saga:
An Ideology on Trial (1992)
Summary
Melina McTigue, Statutory Rape Law Reform
in Nineteenth-Century Maryland: An Analysis of Theory
and Practical Change (2002)
Summary
Polly Myers, Changes in the Maryland
Statutory Rape Laws During the Progressive Era
(1987)
Summary
Diane Russell, Rape: The Legislation
of Racial and Sexual Morality in 19 th Century Virginia
(1992)
Summary
Margaret Stern, New York’s Corroboration
Requirement: Women Effecting Change (1991)
Summary
Top of List
Religion
Royce Bernstein, Friend or Foe:
Mormon Women’s Suffrage as a Pawn in the Polygamy
Debate, 1856-1896 (1999)
Summary
Michelle Kaplan, Annulments in the
Catholic Church: Regulation Under the Code of Canon
Law (1988)
Summary
Elizabeth Gildea Logie, The Opposition
of the Catholic Church to Repeal of the Federal Comstock
Legislation 1914-1936 (1987)
Summary
Jessica Davidson Miller, The History
of the Agunah in America: A Clash of Religious Law
and Social Progress , 19 Women’s Rights L.
Rep. 1 (1997)
Summary
Top of List
Republicanism
Jette Gebhart, Mercy Otis Warren
and the Republican Moment (2002)
Summary
Top of List
Science
Jane Zara, Legal and Societal
Factors Affecting the Development of Oral
Contraceptives for Women (2003)
Summary
Sexuality
Emma Filstrup, Bring Out the Girls: A Legal History of Burlesque in New York City (2004)
Summary
Andrew Gilden, Preserving the Seeds of Gender Fluidity: Tribal Courts and the Berdache Tradition (2006)
Summary
Joy Haynes, (Trans)Gender Identity: From XX to YY and Everything in Between (2004).
Summary
Top of List
Slavery
Tanya Boyle, The Social and Legal
Status of Free Women of Color in Nineteenth Century
Louisiana (2001)
Summary
Marjorie Brown, Chastisement: Wives
and Slaves in Nineteenth Century North Carolina
(1983)
Summary
Top of List
Sports
Jaclyn Elise Moldovan, Title IX
and Contact Sports (2001)
Summary
Top of List
Statutory
Rape
Sam Hong, Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County: Sex, Adolescence and Pretexts (2007)
Summary
Melina McTigue, Statutory Rape Law Reform
in Nineteenth-Century Maryland: An Analysis of Theory
and Practical Change (2002)
Summary
Top of List
Sterilization
Pamela Berger, Sterilization in
Virginia: Fireships into Hewers of Wood and Drawers
of Water (1985)
Summary
Katherine Gillespie, Defining Reproductive
Freedom for Women ‘Living Under a Microscope': Relf
v. Weinberger and the Involuntary Sterilization of
Poor Women of Color (2000)
Summary
Top of List
Suffrage
Royce Bernstein, Friend or Foe:
Mormon Women’s Suffrage as a Pawn in the Polygamy
Debate, 1856-1896 (1999)
Summary
Armantine M. Smith, The History
of the Woman's Suffrage Movement in Louisiana ,
62 La. L. Rev. 509 (2002)
Summary (not yet available)
Cathy Briskie Teleky, Minor v. Happersett:
A Cause Ahead of its Time (1985)
Summary
Top of List
Taxation
Jennifer Darcy, The Revenue Act
of 1948 and the Movement toward Income Splitting
(1998)
Summary
Top of List
Temperance
Denitta Ascue Ward, Women and the
Temperance Sentiment in Kansas: Kansas Liquor Laws
1855-1881 (1988)
Top of List
Tort Law
Kendra Matthews, Breach of Promise
to Marry in Illinois: An Action that Belongs in the
Past (1995)
Summary
Top of List
Transgendered People
Andrew Gilden, Preserving the Seeds of Gender Fluidity: Tribal Courts and the Berdache Tradition (2006)
Summary
Joy Haynes, (Trans)Gender Identity: From XX to YY and Everything in Between (2004).
Summary
Twentieth
Century Reform
Elizabeth Connelly, Face Off: Gloria Steinem and Her Battle for ERA Ratification (2006)
Summary
Erik Kenerson, Be Careful What You Wish For: How Discrimination Based on Social Function Was Nearly Official United States Policy (2007)
Summary
Carolyn Ann Newman, The Women’s
Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s: Voices of
Change (1991)
Summary
Top of List
Unwed
Mothers
Amy Wilkinson-Hagen, Who’s Saving
Whom from What and Why?” -- Placing the National Florence
Crittenton Mission in Its Social and Legal Context,
Illinois 1883 - 1933 (2003)
Summary
Top of List
Welfare
Katherine Gillespie, Defining Reproductive
Freedom for Women ‘Living Under a Microscope’: Relf
v. Weinberger and the Involuntary Sterilization of
Poor Women of Color (2000)
Summary
Top of List
Western
Women
Judith Cole, “A Wide Field for Usefulness”:
Women’s Civil Status on the Montana Frontier, 1864-1914
(1986)
Summary
Top of List
Whistle Blowing
Erin Moak, Female Whistleblowers: Contributions, Motivations, and Society's Reponse (2004)
Summary
Women Governors
Ben Schuman, Governor Ladies: The Failed Experiment of the First Two Woman Governors (2007)
Summary
Top of List
Women
Judges
Sarah Westergren, “Neither Forget Nor
Remember That You Are a Woman”: Gender and the Experience
of Early Women Judges (2003)
Summary
Top of List
Women
and the Legislature
Elizabeth King, Miss Mary E.W.
Risteau: Maryland’s Pioneer Woman Legislator (1992)
Summary
Lisa Kutlin, Congresswoman Mary T. Norton: Matriarch of the Living Wage (2004)
Summary
Sheila Simon, Women in the Illinois
General Assembly (1986)
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War II
Susan Damplo, Federally Sponsored
Childcare During World War II: An Idea before its
Time (1987)
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Cheryl A. Heeke, Rosie the Riveter:
Study of the Conditions and Effects of Female Participation
in the World War II Labor Force (1982)
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Aimee Imundo, WAM-Bam Thank You
Ma’am: The G.I. Bill of Rights and Women’s Education
in the Post-War Years (1991)
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Steven Lim, The Effect of Veterans’
Reemployment Rights, Veterans Preference Laws, and
Protective Labor Laws on the Status of Women Workers
in the World War II Period , 2 Hofstra Lab. L.J.
301 (1985)
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