Gender History and Women’s History

Radical History Review
Articles and Essays in Gender History and Women’s History, 1978-2010

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Henry Abelove
The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History
Radical History Review 1995(62): 45-57.

Elaine Abelson, David Abraham, and Marjorie Murphy
Interview with Joan Scott
Radical History Review 1989(45): 41-59

Barbara L. Allen
Digitizing Women’s History: New Approaches to Evidence and Interpretation in Museum Exhibits
Radical History Review 1997(68): 103-120

Aufderheide, Pat
Interview with Natalie Davis
Radical History Review 1984(28-30): 136-139

Leora Auslander
Feminist Theory and Social History: Explorations in the Politics of Identity
Radical History Review 1992(54): 158-176

Beth Bailey and David Farber
Hotel Street: Prostitution and the Politics of War
Radical History Review 1992(52): 54-77.

Ann Barr Snitow
Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different
Radical History Review 1979(20): 141-161.

Rosalyn Baxandall
A Tribute to Sheila Rowbotham: Activist, Provoker of Thought and Action
Radical History Review 1995(63): 151-158 (1995).

Gail Bederman
‘Civilization,’ the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells’s Antilynching Campaign (1892–94)
Radical History Review 1992(52): 5-30

Gail Bederman
Teaching the U.S. Women’s History Survey at a Catholic University
Radical History Review 1996(64): 38-57. (teaching essay)

Daniel E. Bender
Inspecting Workers: Medical Examination, Labor Organizing, and the Evidence of Sexual Difference
Radical History Review 2001(80): 51-75.

Sue Benson and Barbara Melosh
The Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Radical History Review 1978-79(19): 143-148.

Holly Blake and Melissa Ooten
Bridging the Divide: Connecting Feminist Histories and Activism in the Classroom
Radical History Review 2008(102): 63-72. (teaching essay)

Sharon Block
Early American Sexuality: Race, Colonialism, Power, and Culture
Radical History Review 2002(82): 159-169. (teaching essay)

Paul Buhle
Bread and Roses: A Response
Radical History Review 1996(65): 84-90.

Antoinette Burton
Recapturing Jane Eyre: Reflections on Historicizing the Colonial Encounter in Victorian Britain
Radical History Review 1996(64): 59-72.

Antoinette Burton and Jean Allman
Gender, Colonialism, and Feminist Collaboration
Radical History Review 2008(101): 198-210.

Gabriela Cano
History and Feminism in Mexico
Radical History Review 2001(79): 85-86.

Jane Caplan, Victoria de Grazia, Laura Frader, and Martha Howell
Patrolling the Borders: Feminist Historiography and the
Radical History Review 1989(43): 23-43.

Hazel V. Carby
The Multicultural Wars
Radical History Review 1992(54): 7-18.

George Chauncey
The Social History of American Sexual Subcultures
Radical History Review 1995(62): 219-224. (teaching essay)

Dominique Clément
“I Believe in Human Rights, Not Women’s Rights”: Women and the Human Rights State, 1969 – 1984
Radical History Review 2008(101): 107-129.

Patricia Cline Cohen
Unregulated Youth: Masculinity and Murder in the 1830s City
Radical History Review 1992(52): 33-52.

 

Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Historical Denial of Lesbianism
Radical History Review 1979(20): 60-65.

Nancy F. Cott
Letter to the Editors
Radical History Review 1993(55): 201

Dina M. Copelman
The Gendered Metropolis: Fin-de-Siècle London
Radical History Review 1994(60): 39-56.

Andy Daitsman
Unpacking the First Person Singular: Marriage, Power, and Negotiation in Nineteenth-Century Chile
Radical History Review 1998(70): 26-47.

Nelcya Delanoë
France Celebrates the Bicentennial: Interview with Madeleine Rebérioux
Radical History Review 1990(48): 134-141

John D’Emilio
Homophobia and the Trajectory of Postwar American Radicalism: The Career of Bayard Rustin
Radical History Review 1995(62): 81-103.

Tom Dublin
Working Women and the “Womens Question”
Radical History Review 1979-80(22): 93-98.

Ellen Carol DuBois
Making Women’s History: Activist Historians of Women’s Rights, 1880–1940
Radical History Review 1991(49): 61-84

Ellen DuBois
Historical Reflections on Teaching Women’s History
Radical History Review 1996(64): 6-11. (teaching essay)

Documents in Hopi Indian Sexuality: Imperialism, Culture and Resistance
Radical History Review 1979(20): 99-130.

Bruce Dorsey
History of Manhood in America, 1750–1920
Radical History Review 1996(64): 19-30. (teaching essay)

Lisa Duggan
Gender and Cultural History
Radical History Review 1996(64): 31-37. (teaching essay)

 

Dora Dumont
Women and Guilds in Bologna: The Ambiguities of “Marginality”
Radical History Review 1998(70): 4-25.

Erik Esselstrom
The Life and Memory of Hasegawa Teru: Contextualizing Human Rights, Trans/Nationalism, and the Antiwar Movement in Modern Japan
Radical History Review 2008(101): 145-159.

Yaël Simpson Fletcher
Teaching the History of Global and Transnational Feminisms
Radical History Review 2005(92): 155-163. (teaching essay)

Jay Garcia
Race, Empire, and Humanism in the Work of Lillian Smith
Radical History Review 2008(101): 59-80.

Sherna Berger Gluck
Special Topics in Women’s Oral History: Towards an Inclusive History of U.S. Feminist Activism
Radical History Review 1996(65): 142-147

Claire Goldberg Moses
Debating the Present, Writing the Past ‘Feminism’ in French History and Historiography
Radical History Review 1992(52): 79-94.

Alan Eladio Gómez
Feminism, Torture, and the Politics of Chicana/Third World Solidarity: An Interview with Olga Talamante
Radical History Review 2008(101): 160-178.

Linda Gordon and Allen Hunter
Not All Male Dominance Is Patriarchal
Radical History Review 1998(71): 71-83.

Yukiko Hanawa
The World of Suzie Wong and M. Butterfly: Race and Gender in Asian America
Radical History Review 1996(64): 12-18. (teaching essay)

Bert Hansen
The Historical Construction of Homosexuality
Radical History Review 1979(20): 66-73.

 

Donna Haraway
The Biological Enterprise: Sex, Mind, and Profit from Human Engineering to Sociobiology
Radical History Review 1979(20): 206-237.

Deborah E. Harkness
Beyond Midwives: Teaching Gender, Science, and Medicine from Antiquity to the Present
Radical History Review 1999(74): 162-172. (teaching essay)

Elizabeth Heineman
The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: Conference Report
Radical History Review 2008(101): 5-21.

Ellen Herman
Good Gays and Bad: The Respectability Question in Gay and Lesbian History
Radical History Review 1993(56): 144-148

Dagmar Herzog
Topics in the History of Sexuality: 19th- and 20th-Century Europe
Radical History Review 1995(62): 209-213. (teaching essay)

Kim Hewitt
Women and Madness: Teaching Mental Illness as a Disability
Radical History Review 2006(94): 155-169. (teaching essay)

Anne Higonnet
Secluded Vision: Images of Feminine Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Radical History Review 1987(38): 17-36.

John Howard
The Library, the Park, and the Pervert: Public Space and Homosexual Encounter in Post-World War II Atlanta
Radical History Review 1995(62): 166-187

Martha Howell
The Women Bush Forgot
Radical History Review 2005(93): 142-148.

Joseph Interrante and Carol Lasser
Victims of the Very Songs they Sing: A Critique of Recent Work on Patriarchal Culture and the Social Construction of Gender
Radical History Review 1979(20): 25-40.

Temma Kaplan
Unruly Women and Political Culture
Radical History Review 1995(63): 145-150.

Temma Kaplan
The Disappearing Fathers Under Global Capitalism
Radical History Review 1998(71): 84-90.

Rebecca E. Karl
History and Gender in China
Radical History Review 2000(77): 142-156. (teaching essay)

Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Telling Tales: Oral History and the Construction of Pre-Stonewall Lesbian History
Radical History Review 1995(62): 59-79.

Louis J. Kern
Ideology and Reality: Sexuality and Women’s Status in the Oneida Community
Radical History Review 1979(20): 181-205.

 

Terence Kissack
Freaking Fag Revolutionaries: New York’s Gay Liberation Front, 1969–1971
Radical History Review 1995(62): 105-134.

Claudia Koonz
A Response to Eve Rosenhaft
Radical History Review 1989(43): 81-85.

Seth Koven and Sonya Michel
Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State
Radical History Review 1989(43): 112-119.

Seth Koven
Dr. Barnardo’s “Artistic Fictions”: Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child in Victorian London
Radical History Review 1997(69): 6-45.

Jan Lambertz
Feminist History in Britain
Radical History Review 1978-79(19): 137-142.

Susan Lee Johnson
Bulls, Bears, and Dancing Boys: Race, Gender, and Leisure in the California Gold Rush
Radical History Review 1994(60): 5-37.

Ian Lekus
Queer Harvests: Homosexuality, the U.S. New Left, and the Venceremos Brigades to Cuba
Radical History Review 2004(89): 57-91.

Harry Liebersohn
The Fascist Imagination
Radical History Review 1979(20): 53-58.

Erik S. McDuffie
A “New Freedom Movement of Negro Women”: Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War
Radical History Review 2008(101): 81-106.

Conor McGrady
Sonia Báez-Hernández
Radical History Review 2008(101): 131-143.

Robert McRuer
We Were Never Identified: Feminism, Queer Theory, and a Disabled World
Radical History Review 2006(94): 148-154

Teresa Meade
Graduate Seminar: History of Latin American Women
Radical History Review 1995(61): 154-156. (teaching essay)

Teresa Meade and Pamela Haag
Persistent Patriarchy: Ghost or Reality?
Radical History Review 1998(71): 91-95.

Barbara Melosh and Christina Simmons
From Martha Washington to Alice Paul in Our Nation’s Capital
Radical History Review 1981(25): 101-113.

 

Michel Melot
Landscape of the Body: Nineteenth-Century Photographic Images in Review
Radical History Review 1987(38): 72-78.

 

Michael Merrill
So Whats Wrong with the “Household Mode of Production”?
Radical History Review 1979-80(22): 141-146.

 

Sonya Michel
Feminism, Film and Public History
Radical History Review 1981(25): 47-61.

Kevin Mumford
Black Global Metropolis: Sexual History
Radical History Review 2009(103): 175-186. (teaching essay)

Nima Naghibi
Revolution, Trauma, and Nostalgia in Diasporic Iranian Women’s Autobiographies
Radical History Review 2009(105): 79-91.

Harvey Neptune
Manly Rivalries and Mopsies: Gender, Nationality, and Sexuality in United States–Occupied Trinidad
Radical History Review 2003(87): 78-95.

Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo
Insider and Outsider, Black and American: Rethinking Zora Neale Hurston’s Caribbean Ethnography
Radical History Review 2003(87): 49-77.

Arzoo Osanloo
Whence the Law: The Politics of Women’s Rights, Regime Change, and the Vestiges of Reform in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Radical History Review 2008(101): 42-58.

Robert Padgug and Jon Wiener
From the Abolitionists to Gay History: An Interview with Martin Bauml Duberman
Radical History Review 1988(42): 65-86

Bryan D. Palmer
Bread and Roses: Sheila Rowbotham—The Political and the Accessible in the Writing of Gender History
Radical History Review 1995(63): 159-165.

Geeta Patel
Crosscultural Sexuality
Radical History Review 1995(62): 203-208. (teaching essay)

Susan Pedersen
The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State
Radical History Review 1989(43): 86-110.

Donna Penn
Queer: Theorizing Politics and History
Radical History Review 1995(62): 24-42.

Liz Phillips
Women’s Livedwomen’s Work: Materials for the High School Classroom
Radical History Review 1979(20): 132-139.

 

Mark Pittenger
Evolution, ‘Woman’s Nature’ and American Feminist Socialism, 1900–1915
Radical History Review 1986(36): 47-61

Vivian H. Price
War, Sex, and Resistance
Radical History Review 2005(93): 149-158.

Catherine Raissiguier
The Sexual and Racial Politics of Civil Unions in France
Radical History Review 2002(83): 73-93.

Elizabeth Reis
Teaching Transgender History, Identity, and Politics
Radical History Review 2004(88): 166-177. (teaching essay)

Rochelle Rowe
“Glorifying the Jamaican Girl”: The “Ten Types – One People” Beauty Contest, Racialized Femininities, and Jamaican Nationalism
Radical History Review 2009(103): 36-58.

Lyndal Roper
Will and Honor: Sex, Words and Power in Augsburg Criminal Trials
Radical History Review 1989(43): 45-71.

Dorothy J. Rosenberg
Women’s Issues, Women’s Politics, and Women’s Studies in the Former German Democratic Republic
Radical History Review 1992(54): 110-126

Eve Rosenhaft
Inside the Third Reich: What is the Women’s Story?
Radical History Review 1989(43): 72-80.

Ellen Ross
Rethinking “the Family”
Radical History Review 1979(20): 76-84.

 

Sheila Rowbotham
Women and Radical Politics in Britain, 1820–1914
Radical History Review 1978-79(19): 149-159.

Theresa Runstedtler
Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line
Radical History Review 2009(103): 59-81.

Leila J. Rupp
Teaching about Transnational Feminisms
Radical History Review 2008(101): 191-197.

Nancy Sahli
Sexuality in 19th and 20th Century America: The Sources and Their Problems
Radical History Review 1979(20): 89-96.

Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles
“Higher Womanhood” Among the “Lower Races”: Julia McNair Henry in Puerto Rico and the “Burdens” of 1898
Radical History Review 1999(73): 47-73.

Jennifer Scanlon
Material, Girls: Women and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century
Radical History Review 1996(66): 172-183. (teaching essay)

Patricia A. Schechter
“All the Intensity of My Nature”: Ida B. Wells, Anger, and Politics
Radical History Review 1998(70): 48-77.

Joan Wallach Scott
The Campaign Against Political Correctness: What’s Really at Stake
Radical History Review 1992(54): 59-79

Christopher Sellers
Body, Place and the State: The Makings of an “Environmentalist” Imaginary in the Post-World War II U.S.
Radical History Review 1999(74): 31-64.

David Harley Serlin
Christine Jorgensen and the Cold War Closet
Radical History Review 1995(62): 137-165.

Francis Shor
The IWW and Oppositional Politics in World War I: Pushing the System Beyond its Limits
Radical History Review 1996(64): 74-94.

 

Sharon Sievers
Gay and Lesbian Research in the 1980s: History and Theory
Radical History Review 1991(50): 204-212

Pete Sigal
To Cross the Sexual Borderlands: The History of Sexuality in the Americas
Radical History Review 2002(82): 171-185. (teaching essay)

Nikhil Pal Singh
Sex and Sexuality in the U.S. Since 1800
Radical History Review 1995(62): 214-218. (teaching essay)

Barbara Clark Smith
From Another Site: Comments on “Digitizign Women’s History”
Radical History Review 1997(68): 121-125.

Karen Sotiropoulos
Open Adoption and the Politics of Transnational Feminist Human Rights
Radical History Review 2008(101): 179-190.

Judith Stacey
What Comes After Patriarchy? Comparative Reflections on Gender and Power in a ‘Post-Patriarchal’ Age
Radical History Review 1998(71): 63-70.

Marc Stein
Sex Politics in the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves
Radical History Review 1994(59): 61-92

Steve J. Stern
What Comes After Patriarchy? Reflections from Mexico
Radical History Review 1998(71): 55-62.

Susan Strasser
Exhibit Review of “Men and Women: A History of Costume, Gender and Power”
Radical History Review 1991(49): 101-108

Ulrike Strasser and Heidi Tinsman
Engendering World History
Radical History Review 2005(91): 151-164. (teaching essay)

Margaret Strobel
Sex and Work in the British Empire
Radical History Review 1992(54): 177-186

Patricia Tilburg
“The Triumph of the Flesh”: Women, Physical Culture, and the Nude in the French Music Hall, 1904-1914
Radical History Review 2007(98): 63-80.

 

 

E.P Thompson
Happy Families
Radical History Review 1979(20): 42-50.

Martha M. Umphrey
The Trouble with Harry Thaw
Radical History Review 1995(62): 9-23.

Jyotsna Uppal
Teaching across Borders: Katherine Mayo’s Mother India
Radical History Review 2005(91): 165-169. (teaching essay)

Judith Van Allen
“Bad Future Things” and Liberatory Moments: Capitalism, Gender and the State in Botswana
Radical History Review 2000(76): 136-168.

Martha Vicinus
Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and No Theory?
Radical History Review 1994(60): 57-75.

Jeffrey Weeks
Movements of Affirmation: Sexual Meanings and Homosexual Identities
Radical History Review 1979(20): 164-179.

 

James W. Wessman
A Household Mode of Production—Another Comment
Radical History Review 1979-80(22): 129-139.

Kath Weston
Families in Queer States: The Rule of Law and the Politics of Recognition
Radical History Review 2005(93): 122-141.

Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Women’s History and World History Courses
Radical History Review 2005(91): 133-150.  (teaching essay)

Barbara Winslow
Women’s Revolutions: The Work of Sheila Rowbotham, a Twenty-Year Assessment: Introduction
Radical History Review 1995(63): 141-144.

Joel Wolfe
“Father of the Poor” or “Mother of the Rich”?: Getúlio Vargas, Industrial Workers, and Constructions of Class, Gender, and Populism in Sao Paulo, 1930–1954
Radical History Review 1994(58): 80-111

Natalie Zemon Davis
Yom Kippur in Moscow, 5750
Radical History Review 1991(49): 155-160.