Readings Women's History

A list of books and articles relating to Women's History in Oregon:

• Additon, Lucia H. Faxon. Twenty Eventful Years of the Oregon Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 1880-1900. Portland, Ore. : Gottshall Printing Company, 1904.

• Blair, Karen J, ed. Women in Pacific Northwest History. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1988.

• Blair, Karen. Northwest Women: an Annotated Bibliography of Sources on the History of Oregon and Washington Women, 1787-1970. Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, 1997.

• Clark Jr., Malcom H. “The War on the Webfoot Saloon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 57 (1957) : 48-62.

• Hussey, John A. “The Women of Fort Vancouver.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 92, (1991) : 265-308.

• Jameson, Elizabeth and Susan Armitage, eds. Writing the Range: Race, Class and Culture in the Women’s West. Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

• Kessler, Lauren. “A Siege of the Citadels: Search for a Public Forum for the Ideas of Oregon Woman Suffrage.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 84, (1983) : 117-150.

• Kesselman, Amy Vita. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion. New York: State University of New York Press, 1990.

• Koehler, Pat. “Reminiscence: Pat Koehler on the Women of Shipbuilders of World War II.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 91, (1990) : 285-291.

• Lansing, Ronald B. “The Tragedy of Charity Lamb, Oregon’s First Convicted Murderess.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 101, (2000) : 40-76.

• LeCompte, Mary Lou. Cowgirls of the Rodeo: Pioneer Professional Athletes. Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2000.

• Miller, Susan Cummins, ed. A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2000.

• Peterson del Mar, David. “Violence against Wives by Prominent Men in Clatsop County.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 100, (1999) :434-450.

• Pitzer, Paul C. “Dorothy McCullough Lee : The Successes and Failures of ‘Dottie-Do-Good.’” Oregon Historical Quarterly 91, (1990) : 5-42.

• Riley, Glenda. Women and Nature: Saving the “Wild” West. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

• Russell, India Pearl Howes. “The Story of My Life : Memories of Sweet Home.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 101, (2000) : 352-363.

• Shein, Debra. “Not Just the Vote : Abigail Scott Duniway’s Serialized Novels and the Struggle for Women’s Rights.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 101, (2000) :302-327.

• Sone, Monica. Nisei Daughter. 1953. Paperback ed., Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1979.

• Tamura, Linda. The Hood River Issei: an Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley. University of Illinois Press. 1993.

• Ward, Jean M and Elaine A. Maveety, eds. “Yours for Liberty”: Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway’s Suffrage Newspaper. Corvallis, Ore. : Oregon State University Press, 2000.