Cossack rebellions : social turmoil in the sixteenth-century Ukraine

Woman's body, woman's right : a social history of birth control in America

Dorothea Lange : a life beyond limits

Women, the state, and welfare

Women, the state, and welfare

Feminism unfinished : a short, surprising history of American women's movements

Heroes of their own lives : the politics and history of family violence : Boston, 1880-1960

Introduction -- cruelty": child protection, 1880-1910 -- The progressive-era transformation of child protection, 1900-1920 -- Single mothers and the contradictions of child-protection policy -- "So much for the children now, so little before": child neglect and parental responsibility -- "Only to bring my children up good": child abuse and social change -- "Be careful about father": incest, girls' resistance, and the construction of femininity -- powers of the weak": wife-beating and battered women's resistance -- Conclusion: social control and the "powers of the weak."

Women, the state, and welfare

The new feminist scholarship on the welfare state / The gender basis of American social policy / The domestication of politics : women and American political society, 1780-1920 / The lady and the tramp : gender, race, and the origins of the American welfare state / The origins of the two-channel welfare state : workmen's compensation and mothers' aid / Representations of gender : policies to "protect" women workers and infants in France and the United States before 1914 / Family violence, feminism, and social control / Struggle over needs : outline of a socialist-feminist critical theory of late-capitalist political culture / The dialectic of rights and politics: perspectives from the women's movement / Ideology and the state : women, power, and the welfare state / Welfare is not for women : why the war on poverty cannot conquer the feminization of poverty / Black women and AFDC : making entitlement out of necessity