Women and Social Movements, June 2007

Editors: Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin
Published by Alexander Street Press and the
Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, SUNY Binghamton

DOCUMENT PROJECTS

How Did Local Antislavery Women Form National Networks in the Antebellum United States?
BY Beth A. Salerno
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

How did Clara Foltz's Experiences as a Woman Lawyer and Suffragist Influence Her Conception of a Public Defender for Those Accused of Crime, 1878-1913?
BY Barbara Allen Babcock
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

UPDATE OF MICROFORM BIBLIOGRAPHY
By Corinne Weible
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REVIEWS

Ellen Herman, The Adoption History Project.
Reviewed by Simone M. Caron, Wake Forest University.

How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914. By Rebecca J. Mead. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. 288 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 081475676X; Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0814757227). Reviewed by Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, Millsaps College.

Pauli Murray & Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black & White Edited by Anne Firor Scott. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 194 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3055-0). Reviewed by Cherisse Jones-Branch, Arkansas State University.

Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal. By Nikki Brown (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. 194 pp. Cloth $29.95, ISBN 0253348048). Reviewed by Theresa Napson-Williams, Richard Stockton College.

Wives Without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, & Welfare in New York, 1900-1935. By Anna R. Igra. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 175pp. Cloth, ISBN 0-8078-3070-4. $49.95; paper, ISBN 0-8078-5779-3. $19.95). Reviewed by Susan Stein-Roggenbuck, Michigan State University

The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s. By Lorraine Gates Schuyler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 336 pp. Cloth $59.95 ISBN 0807857769, Paper $22.50 ISBN 9780807857762). Reviewed by Ann Short Chirhart, Indiana State University.

How Did Local Antislavery Women Form National Networks in the Antebellum United States? BY Beth A. Salerno | Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

How did Clara Foltz's Experiences as a Woman Lawyer and Suffragist Influence Her Conception of a Public Defender for Those Accused of Crime, 1878-1913? BY Barbara Allen Babcock | Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

How Did Local Antislavery Women Form National Networks in the Antebellum United States?
BY Beth A. Salerno
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

How did Clara Foltz's Experiences as a Woman Lawyer and Suffragist Influence Her Conception of a Public Defender for Those Accused of Crime, 1878-1913?
BY Barbara Allen Babcock
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |