The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize

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2018     Bound in wedlock : slave and free Black marriage in the nineteenth century by Tera W. Hunter
2017     No mercy here : gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity by Sarah Haley
2016     The devil's chain : prostitution and social control in partitioned Poland by Keely Stauter-Halsted
2015     The sexuality of history : modernity and the Sapphic, 1565–1830 by Susan S. Lanser
2014     Professing selves : transsexuality and same-sex desire in contemporary Iran by Afsaneh Najmabadi
2013     Republic of women : rethinking the republic of letters in the seventeenth century by Carol Pal
2012     The gender of memory : rural women and China's collective past by Gail Brook Hershatter and Ruth Mazo Karras
2011     Dangerous pregnancies : mothers, disabilities, and abortion in modern America by Leslie J. Reagan
2010     Revolutionary conceptions : women, fertility, and family limitation in America, 1760–1820 by Susan E. Klepp
2009     What comes naturally : miscegenation law and the making of race in America by Peggy Pascoe
2008     The making of Our bodies, ourselves : how feminism travels across borders by Kathy Davis
2007     Specters of Mother India : the global restructuring of an empire by Mrinalini Sinha
2006     Cinderella's sisters : a revisionist history of footbinding by Dorothy Ko
2005     Women with mustaches and men without beards : gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity by Afsaneh Najmabadi
2004     Common bodies : women, touch and power in seventeenth-century England by Laura Gowing
2003     Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision by Barbara Ransby
2002     In pursuit of equity : women, men, and the quest for economic citizenship in twentieth-century America by Alice Kessler-Harris
2001     Tender violence : domestic visions in an age of U.S. imperialism by Laura Wexler
2000     Colonial citizens : republican rights, paternal privilege, and gender in French Syria and Lebanon by Elizabeth Thompson
1999     No constitutional right to be ladies : women and the obligations of citizenship by Linda K. Kerber
1998     Harriot Stanton Blatch and the winning of woman suffrage by Ellen Carol DuBois
1997     Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai by Gail Hershatter
1996     Cultivating women, cultivating science : Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760 to 1860 by Ann B. Shteir
1995     To paint her life : Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi era by Mary Lowenthal Felstiner
1994     Civilization without sexes : reconstructing gender in postwar France, 1917–1927 by Mary Louise Roberts
1993     Righteous discontent : the women's movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
1992     How fascism ruled women : Italy, 1922–1945 by Victoria de Grazia
1991     Daughters of the shtetl : life and labor in the immigrant generation by Susan Glenn
1990     A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785–1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1989     Gender and the politics of history by Joan Wallach Scott (Rev. ed. here); Men, women, and work : class, gender, and protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910 by Mary H. Blewett
1988     Heroes of their own lives : the politics and history of family violence : Boston, 1880–1960 by Linda Gordon
1987     Gender at work : the dynamics of job segregation by sex during World War II by Ruth Milkman
1986     The creation of patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
1985     French feminism in the nineteenth century by Claire G. Moses (e-book here)
1984     Abortion and woman's choice : the state, sexuality, and reproductive freedom by Rosalind Petchesky (Rev. ed., 1990, here)