Women’s History
A Selected Bibliography from the Holdings of the Archives & Rare Books Library
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17th Century
An Essay in Defence of theFemale Sex. London: Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, 1696.
ARB Rare Books HQ1201.E8 1696
The Challenge Sent by a Young Lady to Sir Thomas &c. or, The Female War. London: E. Whitlock, 1697.
ARB Rare Books HQ1201.C5
Allestree, Richard. The Ladies' Calling. Oxford, At the Theater, 1673.
ARB Rare Books BJ1551.A5 1673
Walsh, William. A Dialogue Concerning Women Being a Defence of the Sex. London: Printed for R. Bentley, 1691.
ARB Rare Books HQ1201 .W2
18th Century
The Ladies Library Written by a Lady Published by Sir Richard Steele. London: J. Tonson, 1714.
ARB Rare Books HQ1201 .L2 1714 (in three volumes)
Alexander, William. The History of Women From the Earliest Antiquity to the Present Time, Giving Some Account of Almost Every Interesting Particular Concerning that Sex, Among All Nations, Ancient and Modern. Philadelphia: J.H. Dobelbower, 1782.
ARB Rare Books HQ1121 .A43 1782 v. 1 (also available as an electronic resource via UCLID)
Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences. Oxford: Printed by W, Jackson, for the author, 1752.
ARB Rare Books CT3320.B3
Chapone, Mrs. (Hester). Letters on the Improvement of the Mind : Addressed to a Young Lady. London: Printed by H. Hughs for J. Walter, 1773.
ARB Rare Books BJ1681.C4 1773 (in two volumes)
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Posthumous Works. London: J. Johnson, 1798.
ARB Rare Books PR5841.W8 A6 1798 (in two volumes)
19th Century
Betham, Matilda. A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country. London: B. Crosby and Co. [etc.], 1804.
ARB Rare Books CT3202.B4
Ellet, E. F. (Elizabeth Fries). The Women of the American Revolution. New York, Baker and Scribner, 1848-50.
ARB Rare Books E206.E44 (in three volumes)
International Council of Women. Report of the International Council of Women. Washington D.C.: R. H. Darby, printer, 1888.
ARB Rare BooksHQ1106 1888
Remy, Nahida. Nahida Remy’s The Jewish Woman. Cincinnati: Press of C. J. Krehbiel & company, 1895
ARB Rare Books HQ1172 .L2 1895
Thomson, A. T., Mrs. The Queens of Society. New York: Harper & brothers, 1861.
ARB Rare Books CT3230.T4 1861
20th Century
Cincinnati Women: Jewels in the Crown. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Creative Consortium, c1988.
ARB Reference HQ1439.C5 C56 1988
Do You Want Your Wife to Work After the War? War Department Education Manual. The American Historical Association, 1944.
ARB Rare Books HD6055.2.U6 D6 1944
Cronau, Rudolf. Woman Triumphant. New York: R. Cronau, 1919.
ARB FICK HQ1121.C7 c1919
Ramusack, Barbara N. Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1999.
ARB C.U. Coll C.U.801 .R14 wo 1999
Smith, Hilda L. Women and the Literature of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Greenwood Press, c1990.
ARB C.U. Coll C.U. 902 .S55 wo 1990
21st Century
Bailey, John. The Lost German Slave Girl. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.
ARB FICK F379.N553 M553 2005
Smith, Hilda, editor. Women’s Political & Social Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2000.
ARB CU Coll C.U.801 .S65wo 2000
Tiefenbacher, Wendy, editor. Deaf Girls Rule. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2001.
ARB Reference GV885.43.G25 D43 2001 (A photo essay chronicling the women’s basketball team at Gallaudet University a school for liberal education and career development for deaf and hard of hearing undergraduate students.)
To find more ARB holdings related to women and women’s history, try this search on UCLID:
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