Reading List: Women's History Month

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The Department of History at the University of Washington recognizes and celebrates Women’s History Month by sharing a sampling of readings written and/or recommended by our faculty. Thank you to Professors Susan Glenn, Ray Jonas, and Christopher Tounsel for their input in compiling this list.

  • Desan, Suzanne, “Gender, Radicalization, and the October Days: Occupying the National Assembly” French Historical Studies 43, no. 3 (August 1, 2020): 359–90
  • Patricia Ebrey, The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (Berkeley, 1993)
  • Susan A. Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (Cornell University Press, 1990)
  • Susan A. Glenn, Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism (Harvard University Press, 2000)
  • Madeleine Yue Dong, Lynn M. Thomas, et. al. The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (Duke University Press, 2008)
  • Laurie Marhoefer, Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (Toronto, 2015)
  • Hwasook Nam, Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea (Cornell University Press, 2021)
  • Laurie Sears, Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia (Duke University Press, 1996)
  • Lynn M. Thomas, Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya (University of California Press, 2003)
  • Lynn M. Thomas, Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners (Duke University 2020)
  • Timeka N. Tounsel, Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic (Rutgers University Press, 2022)
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