The political activism of the 1970s was followed by an explosion of feminist scholarship in the 1980s. "The Journal of Women's History" was founded to provide a means of disseminating that scholarship. This volume is drawn from more than 750 journals and includes material published from 1980 through 1990.

The political activism of the 1970s was followed by an explosion of feminist scholarship in the 1980s. "The Journal of Women's History" was founded to provide a means of disseminating that scholarship and to serve as the journal of record for the new area of women's history. As part of its mission, the journal began a compilation of periodical literature dealing with women's history. This first volume is drawn from more than 750 journals and includes material published from 1980 through 1990. There are forty subject categories, divided into numerous subcategories. The guide lists more than 5,500 articles; all are extensively cross-listed. In her foreword, Christie Farnham outlines the evolution of a journal devoted to women's history as a part of the transformation of the history profession by the feminist movement. Joan Hoff's introduction is a substantive discussion of the development of women's history as a discipline.

Foreword by Christie Farnham
Introduction by Joan Hoff
Africa
African-American Women
Freed Women
Late Nineteenth Century
Other
Slavery
Theory, Issues, and Historiography
Twentieth Century
Agriculture
Agricultural Workers
Farms and Farmers
Rural Life
Art
Crafts
Visual Fine Arts
Film, Television, Photography
General
Literature
Music
Poetry
Theatre
Asia
East (China, Japan, Korea)
General
South (Bangladesh, India, etc.)
Southeast (Burma, Vietnam, etc.)
Australia/New Zealand
Biography
Individual and Collective Biographies
Journals and Diaries
Letters
Oral History
Theory
Birth Control
Abortion
Fertility
Infanticide
Material Culture
Reproductive Rights and Options
Canada
Economics (see also Work)
Africa
Asia
Australia
Europe
Latin America
Middle East/Near East
North America
Soviet Union
Education
Methods
Students
Teachers
Ethnicity
Asian
European
General
Immigrants
Jewish
Latin American
Europe
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
France
General
Great Britain
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Family
Childbirth
Childcare
Demographics
Ethnicity
General
Infant Mortality
International
Kinship
Motherhood
Feminism
Biography
General
International
Organizations
Politics
Religion
Theory
Friendship
Health
Health Care/Preventive Health Care
Illness
Maternity/Childbirth
Medical Issues
Psychology
Latin America
Law/Crime
Courts, Trials, and Prisons
Divorce, Family, and Marriage
Female Criminality
Lawyers
Reproductive Rights and Illegitimacy
Theories, and Other Issues
Work and Protective Legislation
Lifestages and Lifestyles (except married)
General
Life Courses
Old Age
Never-Married Women
Widowhood
Youth
Marriage/Divorce
Courtship
Demographics
Divorce
Ethnicity
General
International
Polygamy
Material and Popular Culture
Architecture/City Planning/Neighborhoods
Books/Literary Images/Literature
Crafts/Quilts/Embroidery
Fashion/Textiles/Beauty Culture
Food
General
Photographs/Paintings/Visual Images/Movies
Popular Culture/Mass Media/Advertising
Science and Technology
Middle East/Near East
Military/War
Home Front
Jobs
Peace Activism
War Service
General
Politics
First Ladies
General
Government Policy
Political Participation
International Relations
Monarchies
Office Holders
Parties
Theories and Issues
WomenOs Rights
Pornography
Professions
Theory and Issues
General
Professional Career Choices
White Collar Work
Prostitution
Religion
Catholocism
Missions and Missionaries
Other Religions
Protestantism
Religious Issues and Witchcraft
Sexuality
Ideology
Lesbianism (see also Lifestages and Lifestyles)
Practices
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Virginity/Celibacy
Social Reform/Community Organizing
Biography
Family Planning and Aid To Children
Health Reform
Industrial Reform
Moral Reform
Social Movements/General
Temperance
WomenOs Clubs
WomenOs Rights Movements
Soviet Union
Sports
Suffrage
Anti-Suffrage
International
Suffrage and Other Issues
United States
National
East
Midwest
South
West
Theory
Construction/Deconstruction/Reconstruction
WomenOs History/Feminist History
WomenOs History Methodology and Other Disciplines
Cross-Cultural Theory and WomenOs History
Biography
WomenOs History and Labor
Historiography and Sources
U.S. Southern Women
Biography
Theories and Issues
Utopias/Communal Societies
Violence
Domestic Violence
Other
Sex Crimes
Women on the U.S. Western Frontier
Biography
Life on the Frontier
Moving West and Homesteading
Native Americans
Work
Housework
Theory and Issues
Crafts, Trades, and Home-Based Work
Domestics
Factory
Family
Pre-Industrial
Sexual Divison of Labor
Unions
General
Journals List
Contributors