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Women's Studies
Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
(1986)
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
(1989)
Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America
(1994)
Women in the American Theatre: Actresses & Audiences, 1790-1870
(1994)
Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
(1996)
Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation
(1996)
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
(2000)
Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860
(2000)
Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
(2002)
The Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island in the Antislavery Network
(2002)
The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England
(2002)
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity
(2003)
Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle
(2004)
Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-Century Woman, Caroline Healey Dall
(2005)
Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England
(2005)
Sex among the Rabble: A Intimate History of Gender & Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
(2006)
Revolutionary Backlash: Women and politics in the early American Republic
(2007)
The Widow's Might: Widowhood and Gender in Early British America
(2009)
Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest
(2010)
Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America
(2011)
Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain
(2014)
New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
(2014)
Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier
(2015)
Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015)
The Kitchen and the Factory: Spaces of Women’s Work and the Negotiation of Social Difference in Antebellum American Literature
(2016)
Going to Boston: Harriet Robinson's Journey to New Womanhood
(2017)
Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
(2019)
Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1830–1890: Cumbersome Allies
(2020)
Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850
(2020)
Against Sex: Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America
(2021)
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