Sharon Hartman Strom

Research

U.S. 19th and 20th-century history, including women’s rights, sexuality, labor, race and gender.

Education

  • Ph.D., 1969, Cornell University

Selected Publications

  • “Foreword,” online edition of Samuel Cohn, The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing, Temple University Press, 2018 (sponsored by NEH for the Humanities Open Book Program).
  • “Spiritualist Angels, Masonic Stars, and the Douglass Temple of Universal Brotherhood: Race, Religion and Civil Engagement in Los Angeles, 1900 to1940,” California History, 95 (Summer, 2018), 2-26.
  • Fortune, Fame and Desire: Promoting the Self in the Long Nineteenth Century (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
  • “‘If Success Depends Upon Enterprise’: Central America, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Race in the Travel Narratives of E.G. Squier,” Diplomatic History35 (June, 2011) 403-43.
  • Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett’s Travelogue of 1868 (University of Mississippi Press, 2011), with Frederick S. Weaver
  • Women’s Rights Major Issues in American History Series (Greenwood Press, 2001).
  • Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform (Temple University Press, 2001).
  • Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900- 1930 (University of Illinois Press, l992, Paperback edition, 1994).
  • Ellen Cantarow with Susan Gushee O’Malley and Sharon Hartman Strom, Moving the Mountain: Women Working for Social Change (Feminist Press 1980, third printing, 1990).
  • “‘Machines Instead of Clerks’: Technology and the Feminization of Bookkeeping, l9l0-l950,” in Hartmann, ed., Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women’s Employment, II (National Academy Press, l987), 63-97.
  • “‘We’re No Kitty Foyles:’ Organizing Office Workers for the CIO, l937-l950,” in Ruth Milkman, ed., Women, Work and Protest: A Century of Women’s Labor History (Routledge & Kegan Paul, l985).
  • “Challenging Woman’s Place: Feminism, the Left, and Industrial Unionism in the l930’s,” Feminist Studies, 8 (Summer, l983), 359-86.
  • “Leadership and Tactics in the American Woman Suffrage Movement: A New Perspective from Massachusetts,” Journal of American History, 62 (Sept., l975), 296-3l5.
  • “Italian American Women and their Daughters in Rhode Island: The Adolescence of Two Generations, l900-l950,” in Caroli, Harney and Tomasi, eds., The Italian Immigrant Woman in North America (Toronto: l978).