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August 2005

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923.142 K29                              1950

Eleanor of Aquitaine and the four kings / Kelly, Amy R. (Amy Ruth), b. 1877.

http://opacserver.matcmadison.edu.matcmadison.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/20/x/x/X00010109537                   

 

932.014092 N383T                         1999

Nefertiti : Egypt's sun queen / Joyce Tyldesley.

                   

 932.014092 H365T                         1998

Hatchepsut : the female pharaoh / Joyce Tyldesley.

                   

942.031092 EL38OW                        1993

Eleanor of Aquitaine : queen and legend / D.D.R. Owen.

                   

 942.554092 P411                          1999

A medieval life : Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344 / Judith M. Bennett.

                   

944.026092 J62P                          1998

Joan of Arc : her story / Regine Pernoud, Marie-Veronique Clin                   

 

940.5317 H535                            2000

The blessed abyss : inmate #6582 in Ravensbruck concentration camp for women / Nanda Herbermann ; translated by Hester Baer ; edited by Hester  aer and Elizabeth R. Baer.

        

 940.53 G784                              1999

Women's identities at war : gender, motherhood, and politics in Britain and France during the First World War / Susan R. Grayzel.

       

940.5344082 D537                         1999

Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948 : choices and constraints / Hanna Diamond.

         

941.081092 C47                           1991

Victoria : the young queen / Monica Charlot.

          

305.4300941 T57                          1987

Women, work, and family / Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott.

              

 335.40924 L97N                           1966

Rosa Luxemburg /  J. P. Nettl.

             

 301.412 R323                             1975

Woman's evolution from matriarchal clan to patriarchal family / Evelyn Reed.

              

 301.412 W63                              1977

A Widening sphere : changing roles of Victorian women / edited by Martha Vicinus.

               

 305.40902 SH53                           1983

The fourth estate : a history of women in the Middle Ages / Shulamith Shahar ; translated by Chaya Galai.

               

 940.1 M489V                              2001

Medieval memories : men, women, and the past, 700-1300 / edited by Elisabeth Van Houts.

               

 848.914092 B16                           1990

Simone de Beauvoir : a biography / Deirdre Bair.

              

 940.315 B4                               1987

Behind the lines : gender and the two world wars / Margaret Randolph Higonnet ... (et al.), editors.

               

 843.7092 D55                             1988

George Sand : a brave man, the most womanly woman / Donna Dickenson.

               

 305.40947 R96                            1991

Russia's women : accommodation, resistance, transformation / edited by Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel, Christine D.Worobec.

               

 305.40902 B65                            1991

Medieval misogyny and the invention of Western romantic love / R. Howard Bloch.

               

 133.409 W8                               1992

Witch-hunting in early modern Europe : general studies / edited by Brian P. Levack.

               

 305.3094 SE5                             1990

Sex and gender in historical perspective / edited by Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero                

 

 305.4094 H67 V.2                         1992

A History of women in the West 

               

 305.409 W872                             1994

Women in the classical world : image and text / ElaineFantham ... [et    al.].

             

 305.4309 B234                            1995

Women's work : the first 20,000 years : women, cloth, and society in early times/ Elizabeth Wayland Barber.

              

 305.4094 H889 V.1                        1996

The prospect before her : a history of women in Western Europe / Olwen Hufton.

       

 133.43 L65 1994                          1995

The witch-hunt in early modern Europe / Brian P. Levack.

               

 920.7209 D263                            1997

Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives / Natalie Zemon Davis.

               

 133.43094 W819                           1998

Witchcraft in early modern Europe : studies in culture and belief / edited by Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester, and Gareth Roberts.

               

 943.086082 OW97                          1993

Frauen : German women recall the Third Reich / by Alison Owings.

               

 305.42 AN545                             2000

Joyous greetings : the first international women's movement, 1830-1860 /    Bonnie S. Anderson.

               

 305.40902 SW971                          1999

Medieval gentlewoman : life in a gentry household in the later Middle Ages    / Ffiona Swabey.

               

 940.53 G784                              1999

Women's identities at war : gender, motherhood, and politics in Britain and France during the First World War / Susan R. Grayzel.

              

 943.155 D261                             2000

Home fires burning : food, politics, and everyday life in World War I  Berlin / Belinda Davis.

               

 940.5344082 D537                         1999

Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948 : choices and constraints / Hanna Diamond.

               

 324.623092 P193B                         2002

Emmeline Pankhurst / Paula Bartley.

               

 305.4209 L498                            2001

In their time : a history of feminism in Western society / Marlene  LeGates.

               

 305.4094 W872                            2003

Women, gender, and fascism in Europe, 1919-45 / edited by Kevin Passmore.

             

 944.361 G585                             1998

The women of Paris and their French Revolution / Dominique Godineau ; translated by Katherine Streip.

               

 133.43094 B854                           1998

Witches & neighbours : the social and cultural context of European witchcraft / Robin Briggs.

               

 248.47 B435                              1987

Holy anorexia / Rudolph M. Bell ; epilogue by William N. Davis.

             

941.105092 M393F                         1969

Mary Queen of Scots / by Antonia Fraser.

               

 823.912 W911B                            1972

Virginia Woolf : a biography / Quentin Bell.

              

 823.7 SH5451SU                           1989

Mary Shelley : romance and reality / by Emily W. Sunstein.

               

 947.0630924 AL37                         1989

Catherine the Great : life and legend / John T. Alexander.

               

 823.912 W911D                            1989

Virginia Woolf : the impact of childhood sexual abuse on her life and work/ Louise DeSalvo.

               

 946.03092 R89                            1991

Isabella of Castile / Nancy Rubin.

               

 941.085092 H62                           1991

The virgin queen : Elizabeth I, genius of the Golden Age / Christopher Hibbert.

               

 823.7 SH5451SP                           1988

Mary Shelley / Muriel Spark.

               

 942.031092 EL38OW                        1993

Eleanor of Aquitaine : queen and legend / D.D.R. Owen.

               

 942.0520922 F84                          1992

The wives of Henry VIII / Antonia Fraser.

               

 941.081092 W42                           1992

Victoria : an intimate biography / Stanley Weintraub.

               

 941.081092 C47                           1991

Victoria : the young queen / Monica Charlot.

               

 941.0858092 T367Y                        1989

The Iron Lady : a biography of Margaret Thatcher / Hugo Young.

               

 823.8 EL421K                             1995

George Eliot, voice of a century : a biography

               

 946.03092 IS741                          1992

Isabel the Queen : life and times / Peggy K. Liss.

              

 942.055092 SO69                          1992

Elizabeth I / Anne Somerset.

               

 947.07 R969                              1996

Russia--women--culture / edited by Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren.

               

 943.471031092 B977O                      1996

The Burgermeister's daughter : scandal in a sixteenth-century German town/ Steven Ozment.

              

 941.074092 C292F                         1996

The unruly queen : the life of Queen Caroline / Flora Fraser.

               

 823.7 AU931N                             1997

Jane Austen : a life / David Nokes.

               

 272.1092 P453S                           1997

Perpetua's passion : the death and memory of a young Roman woman / Joyce E. Salisbury.

               

 944.026092 J62P                          1998

Joan of Arc : her story / R*egine Pernoud, Marie-V*eronique Clin ; translated and revised by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams ; edited by Bonnie    Wheeler.

               

 942.055092 EL43W                         1999

The life of Elizabeth I / Alison Weir.

               

 942.031092 EL38W                         2000

Eleanor of Aquitaine : a life / Alison Weir.

               

 944.035092 M334L                         2000

Marie Antoinette : the last queen of France / by Evelyne Lever ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.

               

 944.028092 C363K                         1998

Catherine De' Medici / R.J. Knecht.

               

 940.5317 H535                            2000

The blessed abyss : inmate #6582 in Ravensbruck concentration camp for women / Nanda Herbermann ; translated by Hester Baer ; edited by Hester    Baer and Elizabeth R. Baer.

               

 823.7 SH5451S                            2001

Mary Shelley / Miranda Seymour.

               

 943.086092 H289B                         2000

Resisting Hitler : Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra / Shareen Blair Brysac.

               

 944.035092 M334F                         2001

Marie Antoinette : the journey / Antonia Fraser.

               

 947.063092 C363DE                        2002

Catherine the Great : a short history / Isabel De Madariaga.

               

 942.052092 ST795                         2003

Six wives : the queens of Henry VIII / David Starkey.

               

 944.04082 R289                           1992

Rebel daughters : women and the French Revolution / edited by Sara E. Melzer and Leslie W. Rabine.

               

 944.05092 J83ST                          2003

The rose of Martinique : a life of Napoleon's Josephine / Andrea Stuart.

               

 941.105092 M393G                         2004

Queen of Scots : the true life of Mary Stuart / John Guy.

               

 945.606092 B644B                         2004

Lucrezia Borgia : life, love, and death in Renaissance Italy / Sarah    Bradford.

               

305.42 C22                               1987

Pandora's daughters : the role and status of women in Greek and Roman antiquity/ Eva Cantarella ; translated by Maureen B. Fant ; with a    foreword by Mary R. Lefkowitz.

               

 305.4094 B57                             1980

Beyond their sex : learned women of the European past / edited by Patricia H. Labalme.

               

  301.412 C95

The Victorian woman. / Duncan Crow

               

 305.409 L6                               1986

The creation of patriarchy / Gerda Lerner.

               

 301.412 P785                             1975

Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy.

              

 301.41209 B8                             1978

Women in Europe since 1750 / Patricia Branca.

               

 305.40932 P785                           1984

Women in Hellenistic Egypt : from Alexander to Cleopatra / Sarah B.  Pomeroy.

               

 940.308 D225                             2000

French women and the First World War : war stories of the home front / Margaret H. Darrow.

               

  305.40947 R96                            1991

Russia's women : accommodation, resistance, transformation / edited by Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel, Christine D. Worobec.

               

  305.4094 K53                             1991

Women of the Renaissance / Margaret L. King.

               

  305.40942 L68                            1995

Medieval women : a social history of women in England, 450-1500 / Henrietta Leyser.

               

  305.40942 J59                            1996

Women in medieval England / Helen M. Jewell.

              

  305.4094 W65                             1993

Women and gender in early modern Europe / Merry E. Wiesner.

               

  305.4208996073 C712                      1990

Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment / Patricia Hill Collins.

               

  305.409495 D371                          1994

Birth, death, and motherhood in Classical Greece / Nancy Demand.

             

  305.42 SI611                             1999

Beauvoir and The second sex : feminism, race, and the origins of existentialism / Margaret A. Simons.

               

  305.40932 T981                           1995

Daughters of Isis : women of ancient Egypt / Joyce Tyldesley.

               

  305.420943 K82                           1988

Mothers in the fatherland : women, the family and Nazi politics / Claudia Koonz.


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