| Keeping House | Virginia Bartlett | This book is a fascinating re-creation of the lives of women in the time of great social change that followed the end of the French and Indian War in western Pennsylvania. Keeping House: Women’s Lives in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1850, tells how the daughters, wives, and mothers who crossed the Allegheny Mountains responded and adapted to unaccustomed physical and psychological hardships as they established lives for themselves and their families in their new homes. |
| Protest, Policy, and the Problem of Violence against Women | S. Laurel Weldon | S. Laurel Weldon provides a comparative study of governmental response to the problem of violence against women in thirty-six democracies. In addition to examining the causes and consequences of the inadeqate public policies dealing with violence against women, she offers practical suggestions about how to improve them. |
| To Beijing and Beyond | Janice Auth | Documents the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Forty-three essays by men and women who attended the conference tell of their experiences and how they’ve applied what they learned at home. |
