History 351 American Women's History  Tags: women history fatherly  

AP Photo. 1919 Two female members of the Yeoman unit pose in their chin strap hats, tie, jacket and long skirt in New York City in April 1919 during World War I. The second world war version of the Yeoman became WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service military unit as the U.S. Navy's corps of female members

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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries are a great start to get ideas.  They often have a bibliography that can point you to more resources as well.

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OhioLINK E-Books: An advanced keyword search limited with the term reference in the subject field will turn up 100s of books, such as

Women in the American Civil War, Feminism: A Reference Handbook, etc.

Credo Reference - This database includes the biographical reference Notable American Women

Wikipedia* - Great place to generate ideas, just don't use it beyond this point

Print: Below are just a couple reference books on women in history.  An Advanced Keyword Search in our catalog will let you restrict your search to the reference collection.

From Sarah Fatherly's syllabus:

Examples of Previous Paper Topics:

• images of women and kitchen culture in 1950s advertising
• courtship literature of the 19^th century
• Women’s Land Army in World War II
• Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party
• Betty Friedan and the formation of the National Organization for Women
• women in the civil rights movement
• Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in World War II
• women, music, and second wave feminism
• gender ideals and corset advertisements of the 1910s-1920s
• women and abolitionism
• representations of the “new” woman in turn of the 20^th century magazines
• debate over the introduction of birth control pills to the mass market
• “Mother” Jones and female labor activism during the Great Depression
• debates over urban prostitution during the Victorian era
• female nurses during the Civil War
• gendered discourse surrounding Jackie Kennedy as First Lady
• discourse surrounding women and the emergence of mass pornography in the 1960s
• impact of modern feminism on the content of women’s magazines during the 1970s
• emergence of national beauty contests like Miss America
• resurgent domesticity during the 1950s
• the shift from courtship to dating culture over the first half of the 20^th century
• Margaret Sanger and birth control movement of the early 1900s

Other Possible Topics:

• the redefinition of women’s roles during and after the American Revolution
• women’s involvement in World War I at home and abroad
• debates over Title IX in the 1970s
• women workers in 19^th century textile mills
• women and gender in the temperance movement
• entrance of women into colleges in the late 1800s and early 1900s
• advertising and marketing of beauty products
• emergence of African American women’s magazines
• debates over the Equal Rights Amendment
• debates over women’s suffrage and the 19^th Amendment
• advice materials written for wives and mothers