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LERNER-SCOTT PRIZE WINNERS

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1992 Rickie Solinger, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race in the Pre-Roe v. Wade Era, 1945-1965"

1993 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920"

1994 No award given.

1995 Elizabeth R. Varon, Wellesley College, "We Mean to be Counted: White Women in Antebellum Virginia"

1996 Barbara Young Welke, University of Oregon, "Gendered Journeys: A History of Injury, Public Transport, and American Law, 1865-1920"

1997 Karen Ward Mahar, Texas A & M University--Corpus Christi, "Women, Filmmaking, and the Gendering of the American Film Industry, 1896-1928"

Victoria W. Wolcott, University of Rochester, "Remaking Respectability: African American Women and the Politics of Identity in Inter-War Detroit"

1998 Marla R. Miller, "My Daily Bread Depends Upon My Labor: Craftswomen, Community, and the Marketplace in Rural Massachusetts, 1740-1820"

1999 Catherine Allgor, "Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800-1832"

2000 Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University, "The China Mystique: Mayling Soong Chiang, Pearl S. Buck and Anna May Wong in the American Imagination"

Carol Williams, Rutgers University, "Framing the West: Race, Gender and the Photographic Frontier' on the Northwest Coast, 1858-1912"

2001  Amy G. Richter, Clark University, "Tracking Public Culture:  Women, the Railroad, and the End of the Victorian Public"

2002  Lisa G. Materson, Yale University, "Respectable Partisans:  African American Women in Electoral Politics, 1877-1936"

2003 Rebecca Jo Plant, University of California, San Diego, "The Repeal of Mother Love" (Johns Hopkins University)

2004  Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College, "Negotiating Gender, Race, and Coalition:  Italian Women and Working-Class Politics in New York City, 1880-1945"

2005 Vasantha Lynn Kennedy, University of Lethbridge, “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Narratives of Childbirth and Motherhood in the Antebellum South,” (University of Western Ontario)

2006 Margot Canaday, Princeton University, "The Straight State: Sexuality and American Citizenship, 1900-1969" (University of Minnesota)

2007 Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School, "Reasoning from Race: The Civil Rights Paradigm and American Legal Feminism, 1960-1979"

2008 Danielle L. McGuire, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Wayne State University (fall 2008), "At the Dark End of the Street: Sexualized Violence, Community Mobilization and the African-American Freedom Struggle"

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