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	A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
	Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
	Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope First published in 1832, this report on an English woman's sojourn among the uncivilized Americans is a hoot!
	Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
	Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Female Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars by Nadezhda Durova. Translated with introduction & notes by Mary Fleming Zirin. Durova ran away from home and disguised herself as a man to join the Russian cavalry. Zirin provides additional historical information, pointing out where Durova hid certain aspects of her earlier life when publishing her account in later years, for example, making no reference to her marriage and child that she left behind.
	Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers edited by Lauren Cook Burgess Short but interesting. Wakeman dressed as a man to join the Union Army and wrote letters home to her family. Burgess came across these while researching female Civil War soldiers after the National Park Service kicked her out of a reenactment at Antietam for portraying a female soldier. She successfully sued the NPS for sex discrimination and has documented more than 100 women soldiers who served in the Union and Confederate armies.
	Gold Rush Women by Claire Rudolf Murphy and Jane G. Haigh
	Women and Men on the Overland Trail by John Mack Faragher
	Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel (Also available in an audio version)
	Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America by Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz


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