Women in the Old South (Friday, September 26)

• Melissa Christian—Victoria E. Bynum, Unruly Women:  The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South
• Margaret Engebretson, Tara Revisited:  Women, War, and the Plantation Legend

The Cult of True Womanhood Revisited (Friday, October 17)

Greta Haber—Glenda Riley, Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915

Luke Sargent—Carol Devans, Countering Colonization:  Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900

Amanda Jaqua—Thomas Dublin, Transforming Women's Work:  New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution

Class, Ethnicity, and Gender (Friday, October 24)

• Trudy Fredericks—Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars
• Xeng Yang—Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars
• Tony Gigliotti—Deborah Gray White, Too Heavy a Load:  Black Women in Defense of Themselves

Women and the Second World War (Friday, November 7)

• Stacey Carlson—Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work:  The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II

The "Traditional" Family and "Traditional" Courtship (Friday, November 14)

• Crystal O'Connell—Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat:  Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
• Tina Allen—Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland
• Jaimie Olson—Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound:  American Families in the Cold War Era

A History of Bodies (Friday, November 21)

• Pat Berthiaume—John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters:  A History of Sexuality in America
• Katie Winter—Linda Gordon, Women's Body, Women's Right:  A Social History of Birth Control in America
• Shannon Jarecki—Kristin Luker, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
• Bekka Williams—Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project:  An Intimate History of American Girls

Feminism and Backlash (Friday, December 5)

• Abby Ferrazzi—Bonnie J. Dow, Prime-Time Feminism:  Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970
• Erin Ludeman—Bonnie J. Dow, Prime-Time Feminism:  Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970
• Aaron Skerik—Donald Matthews and Jane S. De Hart, Sex, Gender, and the Politics of the ERA

Women and Work (Monday, December 8)

• Erica Hoffman—Julia Kirk Blackwelder, Now Hiring:  The Feminization of Work in the United States
• Pat McCormick—Greta Paules, Dishing It Out:  Power and Resistance Among Waitresses at a New Jersey Restaurant