Reviews of Women's History Books

The resources reviewed here tend to be
World History works, overviews, or surveys.
(All reviews by Lyn Reese)

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Women and the Journey: The Female Travel Experience by Bonnie Frederick & Susan McLeod, editors, ©1993

Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women’s History of the World by Rosalind Miles, Three Rivers Press, © 1988, 2001

Women's History in Global Perspective, Volumes 1, 2, and 3 - edited by Bonnie G. Smith, University of Illinois Press, © 2004-5

Suffrage & Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives - edited by Caroline Daley & Melanie Nolan, New York University Press, ©1994

International Women Speak: The Emergence of Women’s Global Leadership - edited by Dr. Doris Earnshaw. Alta Vista Press, ©2000

Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development - edited by Arvonne S. Fraser and Irene Tinker. Feminist Press, ©2004

The Timetables of Women's History - by Karen Greenspan, Simon & Schuster, ©1994

Women Warriors - by Teena Apeles, Seal Press, @2003

Never Marry a Woman With Big Feet - by Mineke Schipper, Yale University Press, ©2003

Gender in History - by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Blackwell Publishers, ©2001.

Global Feminism Since 1945 - edited by Bonnie G. Smith, Routledge, London, @2000.

All the Women Are Called María - by Juan J. Sánchez, Vantage Press, New York, ©2003.

The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World: Revised and Updated - by Joni Seager, Penguin Books, New York, ©2003.

Woman Ruler: Woman Rule - by Elin Sand, iUniverse.com, ©2001.

A History of European Women's Work: 1700 to the present -by Deborah Simonton, Routledge, The Guilford Press, ©1998.

Gender in World History - by Peter N. Stearns, Routledge, ©2000.

The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500-1800 - by Olwen Hufton, Vintage Books, ©1995.

Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World - by Mona Domost and Joni Seager, The Guilford Press, ©2001.

Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen - by Nicholas Clapp, Houghton Mifflin Company, ©2001.

Shaping a Better World: Global Issues, Gender Issues - Center for Research on Women, 106 Center Street, Wellesley, MA 02481.

European Feminisms 1700-1950: A Political History, by Karen Offen, Stanford University Press, ©2000.

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France, by Evelyne Lever, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2000.

Women's Roles in Ancient Civilizations: A Reference Guide, Bella Vivante, editor, Greenwood Press, ©1999.

A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now: Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone, editors, Schocken Books, ©1992.

Women Poets of the World, edited by Joanna Bankier and Deirdre Lashgari, Macmillan, ©1983.

Wise Women: Over 2000 Years of Spiritual Writing by Women, edited by Susan Cahill, W.W. Norton, ©1996.

Woman As Healer: A Panoramic Survey of the Healing Activities of Women from Prehistoric Times to the Present, by Jeanne Achterberg, Shambhala, Boston, ©1991.

A History of Women in the West, Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, general editors.

Restoring Women to History, published by Indiana University Press, July 1, 1999.

Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War From Prehistory to the Present, by Linda Grant De Pauw.

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen & Legend, by D.D.R. Owen.

Women Around the World and Through the Ages, by Sabrina Mervin and Carol Prunhuber.

Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present, edited by Eugenia Delamotte, Natania Meeker, Jean O'Barr.

Where Women Stand: An International Report on the Status of Women in 140 Countries, 1997-1998, by Naomi Neft & Ann D. Levine.

The State of Women in the World Atlas, new edition by Joni Seager.

The World's Women 2000, The Trends and Statistics - U.N. Publications.

Global Gender Issues: Dilemmas in World Politics by V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan.

Making Waves: A History of Feminism in Western Society by Marlene LeGates.

Women in World History: Readings from History by Sarah Shaver Hughes and Brady Hughes.

Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield.

Chronology of Women's History by Kirsten Olsen.

A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present by Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith Zinsser.

The International Dictionary of Women's Biography, compiled and edited by Jennifer S. Uglow.

The Book of Goddesses & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan.

The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi.

Women, The Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents by Susan Groag Bell and Karen Offen.

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber.