* Melosh, Barbara. ''Gender and American History since 1890'' (1993) [http://www.questia.com/read/103877548?title=Gender%20and%20American%20History%20since%201890 online edition]
* Miller, Page Putnam, ed. ''Reclaiming the Past: Landmarks of Women's History.'' (1992). 232 pp.
* Mintz, Steven, and Susan Kellogg. ''Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life'' (1988), 316pp; the standard scholarly history [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Revolutions-Social-History-American/dp/002921291X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208814002&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
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* Zophy, Angela Howard, ed. ''Handbook of American Women's History.'' (1990). 763 pp.
===Europe===
* Bridenthal, Renate, Susan Stuard, and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks eds. ''Becoming Visible: Women in European History'' (2nd ed. 1997), essays by scholars
* Fairchilds, Cissie. ''Women in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700'' (2007) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Modern-1500-1700-Longman-History-European/dp/0582357187/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244798177&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]
* Fout, John C. ''German Women in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History'' (1984) [http://www.questia.com/read/53307791?title=German%20Women%20in%20the%20Nineteenth%20Century%3a%20A%20Social%20History online edition]
* Smith, Bonnie. ''Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700'' (1988)
* Tilly, Louise A. and Joan W. Scott. '' Women, Work, and Family'' (1978)
* Ward, Jennifer. ''Women in Medieval Europe: 1200-1500'' (2003)
* Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. ''Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe'' (2008) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Gender-Modern-Approaches-European-History/dp/0521695449/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244798177&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
====Primary sources: Europe====
* DiCaprio, Lisa, and Merry E. Wiesner, eds. ''Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women's History'' (2000) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Lives-Voices-Sources-European-History/dp/0395970520/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244798177&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Hughes, Sarah S., and Brady Hughes, eds. ''Women in World History: Readings from Prehistory to 1500'' (1995), 270pp primary sources.
** Hughes, Sarah S., and Brady Hughes, eds. ''Women in World History: Readings from 1500 to the Present'' (1997) 296pp; primary sources
* Pomeroy, Sarah B. ''Women's History and Ancient History'' (1991) [http://www.questia.com/read/94821085?title=Women's%20History%20and%20Ancient%20History online edition]
===Methods===
* Meade, Teresa A., and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, eds. ''A Companion to Gender History'' (2006) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Companion-Gender-History-Blackwell-Companions/dp/1405149604/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203919125&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Offen, Karen; Pierson, Ruth Roach; and Rendall, Jane, eds. ''Writing Women's History: International Perspectives'' (1991). 552 pp.
* Spongberg, Mary. ''Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance.'' (2003) 308 pages; on Europe