Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
American historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is an American historian and the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College. Early life and education Horowitz was born on 31 Jan. 1942 in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Rabbi David Lefkowitz, Jr. and Leona Atlas Lefkowitz. Rabbi David served as rabbi at Temple B'nai Zion in Shreveport and Leona was a tutor in math, informal college counselor, civic worker, community board member, and housewife. David Lefkowitz is her paternal grandfather. Horowitz was educated in Shreveport, and graduated from C. E. Byrd High School in 1959.
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Published Works
- Academic Women (1980) (153)
- Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America (2002) (152)
- Will Quiet Rebels Find Heterosexual Happiness in Non-Gothic Buildings?@@@Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s.@@@Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present. (1988) (148)
- Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America (2001) (129)
- Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s (1984) (117)
- Pleasure and Danger (2003) (66)
- Landscape in Sight: Looking at America (1997) (47)
- Campus Life (1987) (44)
- Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917 (1976) (39)
- The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (2008) (32)
- The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas (1994) (30)
- The 1960s and the Transformation of Campus Cultures (1986) (23)
- Victoria Woodhull, Anthony Comstock, and conflict over sex in the United States in the 1870s. (2000) (18)
- Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (2010) (10)
- The Changing Student Culture: A Retrospective. (1989) (9)
- Attitudes toward Sex in Antebellum America (2006) (7)
- In the Wake of Laurence Veysey: Re-examining the Liberal Arts College (2005) (7)
- Varieties of Cultural Experience in Jane Addams' Chicago (1974) (7)
- J. B. JACKSON AS A CRITIC OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE (1998) (7)
- Attitudes Toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History with Documents (2006) (7)
- “Nous Autres”: Reading, Passion, and the Creation of M. Carey Thomas (1992) (6)
- To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900–1940. By Roger L. Geiger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. x + 325 pp. $27.50.) (1987) (5)
- Love Across the Color Line (1996) (4)
- Hull-House as Women's Space (1994) (4)
- Does Gender Bend the History of Higher Education (1995) (3)
- TRACES OF J. B. JACKSON: The Man Who Taught Us To See Everyday America (2020) (3)
- A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School (2004) (3)
- Mona Lisa Smile. Dir. by Mike Newell. Columbia Pictures, 2003. 117 mins. (2004) (3)
- Designing for the Genders: Curricula and Architecture at Scripps College and the California Institute of Technology (1985) (2)
- John Brinckerhoff Jackson 1909-1996 (1997) (2)
- Love across the color line : the letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis (1996) (2)
- Talk about Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States. By Janice M. Irvine. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xii, 271 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-520-23503-7.) (2004) (2)
- A Taste for Provence (2016) (2)
- The Progressive Education Movement After World War I (1971) (2)
- Female Gothic: Writing the History of Women's Colleges@@@Alma Mater: Design and Experience in Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth Century Beginnings to the 1930s (1985) (2)
- Traces of J. B. Jackson (2020) (1)
- The Body in the Library (2008) (1)
- Coming of Age in New Jersey: College and American Culture. MICHAEL MOFFATT (1990) (1)
- Roar, Alma Mater, Roar (2006) (1)
- A Man's and a Woman's World (1995) (1)
- A Victoria Woodhull for the 1990s (1999) (1)
- Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal (review) (2001) (0)
- Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America. By Elizabeth Fraterrigo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. vii + 295 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-195-38610-3 (2011) (0)
- The Great Debate: Charles W. Eliot and M. Carey Thomas (2004) (0)
- Andrea Friedman. Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909–1945. (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 290. Cloth $40.00, paper $17.50 (2001) (0)
- The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West by Carole Haber (review) (2014) (0)
- Coda: The Comstock Law of 1873 (2006) (0)
- Integrating Women into Intellectual History@@@Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism. (1984) (0)
- The Social History of Cultural Institutions: The Upper-Class Connection@@@Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917 (1979) (0)
- A College of One's Own (1995) (0)
- Patricia Ann Palmieri. In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1995. Pp. xxi, 381. $35.00 (1996) (0)
- Book Review:Imperial San Francisco: Politics and Planning in an American City, 1897-1906 Judd Kahn (1982) (0)
- How Birds Have Come Into Existence (1998) (0)
- Toward a New History of the Landscape and Built Environment@@@Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845.@@@Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. (1985) (0)
- Controversy and Commerce (2006) (0)
- David G. Schuster, Neurasthenic Nation: America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869–1920 (2013) (0)
- HEQ volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1983) (0)
- Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873–1913. By Gwendolyn Wright. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. viii + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) (1981) (0)
- Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac . By David Herzberg. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. x + 279 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89030-7. (2009) (0)
- Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. By Rachel Hope Cleves (New York, Oxford University Press, 2014) 267 pp. $29.95 (2015) (0)
- S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914: Philadelphia’s Literary Physician by Nancy Cervetti (review) (2013) (0)
- Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America (review) (2011) (0)
- Culture & the city (1976) (0)
- Class Consciousness in Chicago's Culture@@@Culture & the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917. (1977) (0)
- Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves (review) (2015) (0)
- Constance Rourke and American Culture. By Joan Shelley Rubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. xv + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.00.) (1980) (0)
- The Beautiful Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy. By Stephanie Malia Hom. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xiv + 313 pp. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4872-2 (2016) (0)
- Devices and desires: gender, technology, and American nursing. [Review of: Sandelowski, M. Devices and desires: gender, technology, and American nursing. Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Pr.; New York: Hill and Wang, 2000]. (2002) (0)
- Introduction: Voices in the Sexual Conversation in Antebellum America (2006) (0)
- Newton Arvin and the Police: Contexts for The Scarlet Professor (2018) (0)
- Richard H. Ullman 1934–2014 (2015) (0)
- The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. By Alan Trachtenberg. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. ix + 261 pp. Bibliographical essay and index. Cloth, $16.95; paper, $6.95.) (1982) (0)
- Books: Undergraduate Cultures: What Ever Happened to Dink Stover? (1993) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri "Sex Questionnaire" Scandal in the Jazz Age Lawrence J. Nelson (2004) (0)
- Voices in the Sexual Conversation: The Four Frameworks (2006) (0)
- Julian B. Carter.The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940.:The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940 (2008) (0)
- "Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam..."@@@Chicago's White City of 1893. (1977) (0)
- Alice Freeman Palmer: The Evolution of a New Woman. By Ruth Bordin. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. xiv, 314 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-472-10392-X.) (1994) (0)
- Julian B. Carter. The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2007. Pp. ix, 219. Cloth $74.95, paper $21.95 (2008) (0)
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