Resources for Kate Chopin and Contexts

White League | Childbirth and Birth Control | New Woman

The White League

Toth, Emily. Kate Chopin's Private Papers. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Print.
Landry, Stuart Omer. The Battle of Liberty Place: The Overthrow of Carpet-Bag Rule in New Orleans. New Orleans: Pelican Publishing Company, 1999. Print.
Nystrom, Justin. New Orleans After the Civil War. Unpublished Manuscript: 2009. Print.
"White League." Wikipedia. 23 Sep 2009. Web. 24 Sep 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/white_league.
"Reconstruction: A State Divided." Cabildo. Louisiana State Museum, Web. 24 Sep 2009. http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab11.htm.

Childbirth and Birth Control

Tharp, Julie and MacCallum-Whitcomb, Susan. This Giving Birth: Pregnancy and Childbirth in American Women's Writing, Bowling Green Popular Press, 2000.

Levitt, Judith Walzer. Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750 to 1950. Oxford University Press,1988.

Toth, Emily. Unveiling Kate Chopin. University Press of Mississippi, March 1, 1999.

Chopin, Kate. Complete Novels and Stories. New York: Library of America, 2002.

London, Kathleen. The History of Birth Control. Yale Newhaven Teacher's Institute. Retrieved 10/11/2009 from http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/6/82.06.03.x.html

American Experience: A Midwife's Tale. Retrieved 10/25/2009 from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/midwife/

Our Bodies Ourselves: Health Resource Center. A Brief History of Birth Control. Retrieved 10/11/2009 from http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=18&compID=53

"Birth control." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 10/25/2009 from http://www.encyclopedia.com

Pylant, James. Abortion in the 19th Century. 2005. Genealogymagazine.com. Retrieved 11/24/2009 from http://www.genealogymagazine.com/abortion1.html

New Woman

Cunningham, Gail. Introduction. Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers: Anna Lombard. By Victoria Cross. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham Press, 2006. N. pag. Google Books. Web. 1 Nov. 2009. http://books.google. com/books?id=XXe0B2AtVgsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbsv2_ summar �� y_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false.

Cunningham, Gail. Introduction. The New Woman and the Victorian Novel. London and Basingstok: The MacMillan Press, LTD, 1978.

Harper Cooley, Winnifred. The New Womanhood. New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1904. Google Books. Web. 29 Oct. 2009.http://books.google.com/books?id=7uXFq7pwA90C&pg=PP16&output=text.

Lavender, Catherine. "The New Woman." Women in New York City 1890-1940. Staten island College of CUNY, 1 Oct. 2009. Web. 1 Nov. 2009. http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/newwoman.html.

McComb-DiPesa, Laura, and Holly Kearl. "A History of Women in Industry." National Woman's history Museum. N.p., 2007. Web. 1 Nov. 2009. http://www.nwhm.org/exhibits/ womenindustry_intro.html.

Melani, Lilia. "Henrik Ibsen 'Hedda Gabler' - The New Woman." The Emergence of the. Modern. Brooklyn College of CUNY, 22 Apr. 2009Web. 2 Nov. 2009. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/newwoman.html.

Stevens, Hugh. Henry James and Sexuality. Cambridge, UK: University Press, 1998. Google Books. Web. 28 Oct. 2009. http://books.google.com?books?id=YHmWB9ZVsIYC&pg=PP1&dq=henry+james+and+sexuality#v=onepage&q=&f=false.

Woodford, John. "Alice Freeman Palmer, Class of 1876: A New Woman of the 19th Century." Rev. of Alice Freeman Palmer: The Evolution of a New Woman, by Ruth Bordin. Michigan Today. N.p., June 1994. Web. 28 Oct. 2009. http://www.ns.umich.edu/MT/94/Jun94 /mt3j94.html.

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