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Books on women in careers, professions, and work including law, medicine, and the social sciences:
Rosalind Rosenberg, Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Feminism (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1982);
Ellen Fitzpatrick,
Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform
(NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990);
Virginia G. Drachman,
Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History
(Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998);
Ellen S. More,
Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1955
(Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1999);
Patricia M. Hummer,
The Decade of Elusive Promise: Professional Women in the United States, 1920-1930
(Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979).
Business histories:
The classic history of the corporation and big business is:
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.,
The Visible Hand: The Directorial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge: Belknap, 1977).
On the role of women in the history of the economy and the relationship between business history and women's history see:
Claudia Goldin,
Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women
(NY: Oxford, 1990).
For the importance of women and gender in the history of American business see:
Virginia G. Drachman,
Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business
(University of North Carolina Press, 2002);
Wendy Gamber,
The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930
(Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997);
Kathy Peiss,
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
(NY: Henry Holt, 1998);
Angel Kwolek-Folland,
Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States
(NY: Twayne, 1998).
Mary A. Yeager, "'Will There Ever Be a Feminist Business History?'" in Mary A. Yeager, ed.,
Women in Business (Northampton, MA: Elgar, 1999), vol. 1, pp 3-43. The essays in this three-volume collection present interpretive analyses of women's place as entrepreneurs, laborers, and consumers in the history of American business.
On gender in business history see also:
Joan W. Scott, "Comment: Conceptualizing Gender in American Business History,"
Business History Review, vol. 72 (summer 1998), pp. 242-9;
Wendy Gamber, "Gendered Concerns: Thoughts on the History of Business and the History of Women,"
Business and Economic History, vol. 23 (fall 1994), pp. 129-140;
Alice Kessler-Harris, "Ideologies and Innovation: Gender Dimensions of Business History,"
Business and Economic History, vol. 20 (1991) pp. 45-51;
Kathy Peiss, "'Vital Industry' and Women's Ventures: Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century Business History,"
Business History Review, vol. 72 (summer 1998), pp. 219-41.
On gender in the history of the corporation in its early decades see:
Angel Kwolek-Follard,
Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office,1870-1930
(Baltimore, 1994).
On the intersection of race and gender in business history see:
Juliet E. K. Walker,
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship (NY: Macmillan, 1998).
Biographies:
Biographies of women entrepreneurs can be found in many biographical dictionaries available in public libraries, including:
American National Biography
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999);
Notable American Women, vols. 1-4 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971, 1980);
Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia,
Notable Black American Women (Detroit: Gale Research,
1992-96.)
A'Lelia Bundles, On Her Own Ground: The Life and
Times of Madam C.J. Walker (NY: Scribner, 2001),
Jane Plitt,
Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream
(Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press 2000) and
Patricia Cleary,
Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America
(Amherst, University of Mass. Press, 2000.)
Katharine Graham's
memoir,
Personal History
(NY: Vintage, 1998) documents the making of a businesswoman in modern America.
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