Andrews, William L. (ed.). Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women's Narratives. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. Journal and diary selections from colonial times. E 187.5 .J68 1990.

Banner, Lois W. In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality, A History. New York: Knopf, 1992. A view of mature women as they have been seen by men, other women, and themselves. HM 132 .B335 1992.

Berlage, Gai Ingham. Women in Baseball: The Forgotten History. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1994. Players, owners, and umpires, a Victorian through the '50s chronicle. Interesting photos.. GV 880.7 .B47 1994.

Bufwack, Mary A., and Robert K. Oermann. Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music. New York: Crown Publishers, 1993. Rockabilly, Gospel, Country and Folk, Patsy, Tammy, Loretta and Dolly and more in this well illustrated survey of an enduring musical tradition.

Butler, Anne M., and Ona Siporin. Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the West. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996. Indigenous women, immigrant women, women of the schoolhouse, women of the fort, and city, and more all have a place in this interestingly compiled volume. HQ 1438 .W45 B87 1996.

Cameron, Ardis. Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Includes marvelous ethnic census color maps from 1906. HD 6073 .T42 U518 1993.

Campbell, Edward D.D., and Kym S. Rice (eds.). A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy. Richmond, Virginia: Museum of the Confederacy, 1996. Collection of essays copiously illustrated with early photographs, sketches and drawings. E 628 .W9 1996.

Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. A feminist perspective of art history. Well illustrated. N 8354 .C48 1990.

Chesler, Ellen. Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Almost 200 pages of notes and bibliography contribute to this well documented comprehensive biography and history. HQ 764 .S3 C44 1993.

Edwards, G. Thomas. Sowing Good Seeds: The Northwest Suffrage Campaigns of Susan B. Anthony. Portland, Oregon: The Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990. Detailed account of the struggle for voting rights in Oregon. JK 1911 .O7 E39 1990.

Ferraro, Barbara and Patricia Hussey. No Turning Back: Two Nuns' Battle With the Vatican Over Women's Right to Choose. NY: Poseidon Press, 1990. A New York Times advertisement protesting attacks on Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro force two nuns to retract or be dismissed from religious orders. BX 4668.2 .F47 A3 1990.

Gay, Penny. As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women. New York, Routledge, 1994. A study of the strong female characters in Shakespeare's comedies. PR 2991 .G38 1994.

Gluck, Sherna Berger. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women the War and Social Change. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987. Collection of oral histories focusing on the long term effect of their wartime work experience. HD 6073 .A452 U64 1987.

Greenspan, Karen. Timetables of Women's History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Women's History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. The title says it all for this one. HQ 1121 .G74 1994.

Harvey, Brett. The Fifties: A Women's Oral History. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Suburbia, abortion, communism and more through the stories of women who experienced that unique decade. HQ 1420 .H347 1993.

Holden, Henry M. Hovering: The History of the Whirly-Girls International Women Helicopter Pilots. Mt. Freedom, N.J.: Black Hawk, 1993. Collective biography of aviation specialists. TL 539 .H56 1994.

Holden, Henry M. and Captain Lori Griffith. Ladybirds II: The Continuing Story of American Women in Aviation. Mt. Freedom, N.J.: Black Hawk, 1993. Achievements of pioneer women in flight. TL 521 .H578 1993.

Hong, Fan. Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom: The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China. London: Frank Cass, 1997. History of women, exercise, and sports in China. GT 498 .F66 F36 1997.

Hufton, Olwen. Prospects Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe 1500-1800. New York: Knopf, 1996. Weighty tome thematically arranged with extensive bibliography and notes. HQ 1587 .H84 1996.

Lindley, Susan Hill. You Have Stepped Out of Your Place: A History of Women and Religion in America. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox press, 1996. From colonial to modern times, the women who have challenged their assigned roles in religion. BL 2525 .L565 1996.

Lumsden, Linda J. Rampant Women: Suffraggists and the Right of Assembly. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee, 1997. Examines the First Amendments implications of the suffrage movement. JK 1896 .L86 1997.

Magill, Frank N. (ed.) Great Lives From History: American Women Series. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1995. Five volume set arranged alphabeticcally with areas of achievement index. Standard reference work that covers from ancient times to present. HQ 1412 .G74 1995.

Manning, Diane. Hill Country Teacher: Oral Histories from the One-Room School and Beyond. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. Eight oral testimonies of rural public school teachers in the Texas Hill Country spanning fifty years. LA 2315 .T4 M36 1990.

Morris, Juddi. The Harvey Girls: The Women Who Civilized the West. New York: Walker and Co., 1994. Story of the waitresses in the Fred Harvey chain of restaurants on the Santa Fe railroad. Includes personal reminiscences and photographs. F786 .M866 1994.

Moynihan, Ruth Barnes and Cynthia Russet and Laurie Crumpacker (ed.). Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Two volume illustrated collection of documents from the 16th century to the present. HQ 1410 .S43 1993.

Norwood, Stephen H. Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy 1878-1923. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Study of the formation of a union by women. Well researched volume includes excellent notes and bibliography. HD 6073 .T32 U56 1990.

Phillips, Patricia. The Scientific Lady: A Social History of Women's Scientific Interests 1520-1918. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1990. Women, spurned from the traditional studies of classics, turned to the sciences for intellectual satisfaction. Q 130 .P53 1990b.

Ravitch, Diane. The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation. New York: HarperCollins, 1990. Includes the words of Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Julia Ward Howe, Carrie Chapman Catt, Rachel Carson, Gwendolyn Brooks and more. Arranged chronologically. E 173 .A753 1991.

Reis, Elizabeth. Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. An interesting study combining the factors of Puritan theology's view of women and the Salem witchcraft trials. Woodcut illustrations. HQ 1438 .N35 R45 1997.

Rich, Doris L. Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator. Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1993. Biography of Texan Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. TL 540 .C646 R52 1993.

Rose, Phyllis (ed.) Norton Book of Women's Lives. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993. Anthology of 61 selections from the classics of women's autobiography. CT 3235 .R67 1993.

Rosen, Norma. Biblical Women Unbound: Counter Tales. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996. Interesting format of biblical verse, commentary and author's prose version of biblical women's stories.BS 575 .R67 1996.

Rosenberg, Rosalind. Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992. Includes unusual feature of a bibliographic essay. HQ 1419 .R67 1992.

Salas, Elizabeth. Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. Social history of the role of women in the Mexican military. UB 419 .M6 S25 1990.

Schuetz, Janice. Logic of Women on Trial: Case Studies of Popular American Trials. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. Includes case studies of the trials of Margaret Sanger, Patty Hearst, Lizzie Borden, Ethel Rosenberg and others. KF 220 .S383 1994.

Soto, Shirlene. Emergence of the Modern Mexican Women: Her Participation in Revolution and the Struggle for Equality 1910-1940. Denver: Arden Press, Inc., 1990. An interesting view of women in politics and women's rights in Mexico. Part of the Women and Modern Revolution series. HQ 1236.5 .M6 S67 1990.

Stachwitz, Chris and James Nicolopulos. Lydia Mendoza: A Family Autobiography. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1993. Life of the famous Mexican-American singer and her family. ML 420 .M3768 A3 1993.

Thatcher, Margaret. Margaret Thatcher: The Downing Street Years. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Autobiography of the thrice elected Prime Minister of Great Britain. DA 591 .T46 T476 1993.

Tolleson-Rinehart, Sue and Jeanie R. Stanley. Clayte and the Lady: Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. How gender affected the 1990 Texas governor's election. F391.2 .T64 1994.

Vare, Ehtlie and Greg Ptacek. Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb: Forgotten Women & Their Unforgettable Ideas. New York:Quill Wm. Morrow, 1987. Serious contributions to wacky flights of fancy are included in this interesting book. T36 .V36 1989.

Vare, Ehtlie and Greg Ptacek. Women Inventors & Their Discoveries. Minneappolis: Oliver Press, 1993. Includes Bette Nesmith Graham (Liquid Paper), Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (computer Science), Madam C.J. Walker (beauty products for African American women), Fannie Farmer (culinary arts) and more. T39 .V37 1993.

Viney, Ethna. Dancing to Different Tunes: Sexuality and Its Misconceptions. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1996. A comprehensive theory of sexuality and feminism. HQ 1075 .V55 1996.

Weidner, Marsha (ed.) Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Beautifally illustrated art history. ND 1040 .F58 1990.

Winegarten, Ruthe. Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Chapters span from Free Women of Color to Breaking the Glass Ceiling. Well illustrated with numerous early and modern photographs. E 185.93 .T4 W55 1995.

Zilboorg, Caroline (ed.) Women's Firsts. New York: Gale, 1996. Miscellany of landmark achievements by women from ancient to modern times. CT 3203 .W66 1996.