4 new books on women in #AmericanHistory!
This 2023 monograph by Michael D. Pierson examines the so-called "Wild Woman" of #Cincinnati & the gendered discourses around her, showing the polarisation of North & South pre- #CivilWar
#AmericanStudies #WomensStudies
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1831295067
"Women Healers" by Susan H. Brandt chronicles the lives of numerous Black, white & Native American women in Early #Philadelphia, c. 1700-1850, as healers, manufacturers, innovators & marketers in the medical marketplace
#MedicalHumanitites #MedicalHistory #AmericanHistory
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1768266611
How did Eliza Harriot, British-born lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, influence the #AmericanConstitution, #WomensEducation & the idea of the female genius? Find out in this #biography by Mary Sarah Bilder!
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1764696786
This 2024 book by Elizabeth Garner Masarik asks, "how women-led reform built the American welfare state" by harnessing 19th c #sentimentalism to drive political action
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=186609324X
#AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #WomensHistory #WomensStudies #AffectTheory
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