Articles published in 2018:
“Women’s History at the Cutting Edge,” a position paper co-authored with Chen Yan of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and discussed at two round tables held at the International Congress on the Historical Sciences (23-29 August 2015) and the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (meeting during the ICHS/CISH congress). The panel of seven experts, all leading historians of women (including founders of the field in Russia, France, and the UK and significant contributors from Canada, Romania, and the Middle East) from around the world, appears (with our editorial introduction) in a special issue (ed. Karen Offen & Chen Yan) of the Women’s History Review (UK), 27:1 (February 2018). [NB: These articles are available online through the WHR/Taylor & Francis website.

Articles published in 2017:
“Writing the History of Feminisms (Old and New): Impacts and Impatience,” pp. 320-336 in The Women’s Liberation Movement: Impacts and Outcomes, ed. Kristina Schulz. Berghahn, 2017

“Before Beauvoir, before Butler: ‘Genre’ and ‘Gender’ in France and the AngloAmerican World,” pp. 11-36 in On ne naît pas femme; on le devient”:The Life of a Sentence, ed. Bonnie Mann & Martina Ferrari.  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017

“Rendezvous at the Expo: Building a Franco-American Women’s Network, 1889-1893-1900,” pp. 215-233 in Women in International and Universal Expositions 1876-1937, ed. Rebecca Rogers & Myriam Boussabha-Bravard.  Routledge, 2018

“An Unforgettable Collaboration: Women, the Family, and Freedom,” Journal of Women’s History, 29:3 (Autumn 2017), 197-203. [Forum on the contributions of Clayman Institute historian & senior scholar Susan Groag Bell]

Series of biographical articles for the Dictionnaire des Féministes de la Révolution à nos jours, ed. Christine Bard (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2017)

Letter to the editor (arguing for broadening our understanding of “politics”) in Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, 55:3 (March 2017), p. 6.

Obituary tribute to a deceased colleague: “Portrait.  Ida Blom (1930-2016), historienne et amie,”Clio: Femmes, Genre, Histoire, no 45 (Spring 2017), 275-278.

Articles published in 2016:
Karen Offen & Chen Yan, “Frauengeschichte in der Vorreiter Role,” L’Homme: Europaiesche Zeitschrift fur Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 27:1 (2016), pp. 73-90. Transl. by Christine Brock. [Shortened version in translation of “Women’s History at the Cutting Edge,” Women’s History Review, 27:1 (2018); see above.

Articles published in 2015:
“The Tensions within the Early Twentieth-Century Bulgarian Women’s Movement: Introduction and Translation by Krassimira Daskalova with Karen Offen,” Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History, vol. 9 (2015), 113-125.

Review of Le Vote des Françaises: Cent ans de débats 1848-1944, by Anne-Sarah Bouglé-Moalic (2012) and “Féministe d’abord”: Cécile Brunschvicg (1877-1946) by Cécile Formaglio (2014). [Both published in the Collection Archives du Féminisme (directed by Christine Bard), Presses Universitaire de Rennes] in Women’s History Review, 24:6 (December 2015), 1032-1037.

« « La plus grande féministe de France » : Pourquoi a-t-on oublié l’inoubliable féministe internationaliste française, Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix, » pp. 181-194 in Les Féministes de la première vague, ed. Christine Bard. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2015).

Review of Women in Law and Lawmaking in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe, ed. Eva Schandevyl (Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2014), Journal of Belgian History / Revue Belge d’Histoire Contemporaine / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Niewste Geschiedenis, 45:4 (2015), 140-144.

Articles published in 2014:
Review of Éliane Viennot et Nicole Pellegrin, ëds. Revisiter la “querelle des femmes”: Discours sur l’égalité / inégalité des sexes, de 1750 aux lendemains de la Révolution. (Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2012), in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 26:3 (Spring 2014), 486-489.

“Understanding International Feminisms as ‘Transnational’ – An Anachronism? May Wright Sewall and the Creation of the International Council of Women, 1889-1904,” commissioned for Gender History in a Transnational Perspective: Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders, ed. Oliver Janz & Daniel Schönpflug. Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.

“Perspectives on Women’s Museum Projects from a Historian of Women (Or Been There, Done That, and Some Lessons Learned),” CCWH Newsletter (August 2014), 8-11.

Series of biographical articles for the Dictionnaire des Créatrices, 3 vols. Paris: des femmes, 2014.

Articles published in 2013:
“National or International? How and Why the Napoleonic Code Drive Married Women’s Legal Rights onto the Agenda of the International Council of Women and the League of Nations: An Overview,” in Family Law in Early Women’s Rights Debates: Western Europe and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, ed. Stephan Meder & Christoph-Eric Mecke (Rechtsgeschichte und Geschlechterforschung, Band 14, Cologne: Bohlau, 2013).

Articles published in 2012:
“Overcoming Hierarchies through Internationalism: May Wright Sewall’s Engagement with the International Council of Women (1888 -1904),” in Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present, ed. Francisca de Haan, Margaret Allen, June Purvis, & Krassimira Daskalova (London & New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 15-27.

“Was Mary Wollstonecraft a feminist? A comparative re-reading of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792-1992,” [revised] in Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945, ed. Karen Offen (London & New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 5-17.

“’Flujos y Erupciones’: Reflexiones sobre la escritura de una historia comparada de los Feminismos Europeos, 1700-1950,” in Historia comparada de las mujeres: Nuevos enfoques, ed. Anne Cova. Prefacio de Françoise Thébaud. Traducción de Elia Permanyer Medina (Uviéu, Spain: Trabe, 2012).

Articles published in 2011:
“Feminism and the Republic,”in The French Republic: History, Values, Debates , ed. Edward Berenson, Vincent Duclert, & Christophe Prochasson (Cornell University Press, 2011), pp. 289-298.

“Founding the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, 1987-2007,” Women’s History Review, 20:4 (Sept. 2011), 491-495.

“The History of Feminism IS Political History,” AHA Perspectives on History, 49:5 (May 2011), 22-24.

“Feminist, Feminisme, Feministe? Anti-Patriarchy is the Key,” On The Issues Magazine, Café, March 2011 http://www.ontheissuesmagazizne.com/cafe2/article/143

Articles and translated texts on Hubertine Auclert, G. Avril de Sainte-Croix, Jenny P. d’Héricourt, and May Wright Sewall, in Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World, ed. Tiffany K. Wayne, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood/ABC Clio, 2011).

“The ‘Missing’ Element in Today’s Feminist Studies: The Long View of Women’s History,” Journal of Feminist Scholarship (online at http://www.umassd.edu/fs ), no. 1 (Fall 2011).

Articles published in 2010:
“Is the ‘Woman Question’ Really the ‘Man Problem’?” commissioned for Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender, ed. Christopher E. Forth & Elinor Accampo (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010), pp. 43-62.

Review essay, “Surveying European Women’s History since the Millenium: A Comparative Review,” Journal of Women’s History, 22:1 (Spring 2010), 154-177.

“Karen Ofen: ‘Prieš veją: nepriklausomos istorikės karjera’,” [“Against the Wind: The Career of an Independent Historian”] translated into Lithuanian by Delia Leinarte, Istorija, 2010/1, 60-67.

“Developing the International Museum of Women: Challenges and Responses,” with Elizabeth L. Colton, in a special issue “Mujeres y museos,” Hermus/Heritage & Museography [Barcelona, Spain], no. 3 (Jan.-Feb. 2010), 68-75.

Articles and reviews published in 2008:
Articles “History of Women,” “Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix,” and “Ellen Key,” for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. Bonnie G. Smith.

Review of Marilyn French, From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World (4 vols), MS Magazine (Fall 2008).

“Madame Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix, the Josephine Butler of France,” in Women’s History Review (London), 17:2 (April 2008), 239-255. Special issue on Josephine Butler and her international networks to campaign against government-regulated prostitution and the “white slave trade,” ed. Anne Summers.

“Thinking Historically about the International Women’s Movement,” special issue of Sextant (Brussels), nos. 23-24 (2007; appeared Feb. 2008), 9-36.

“Erupcoes e Fluxas: Reflexoes Sobre a Escrita de Uma Historia Comparade dos Feminismos Europeus, 1700-1950,” in História comparada das mulheres: Novas Abordagens, ed. Anne Cova Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2008.

“¿Quién le teme a las mujeres en la política? ¿Y por qué? on CD-Rom, from the Conference XI Jornadas Nacionales de Historia de la Mujeres y IV Congresso Iberoamericano de Estudios de Género (Rosario, Argentina, August 2008).

“Feminists Campaign in ‘Public Space’: Civil Society, Gender Justice, and the History of European Feminisms,” in Civil Society, Public Space, and Gender Justice, ed. Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel, & Gunilla Budde (New York: Berghahn, 2008), pp. 97-116.

Articles and reviews published in 2007:
“How (and Why) the Analogy of Marriage with Slavery Provided the Springboard for Women’s Rights Demands in France, 1640-1848,” in Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation, ed. Kathryn Kish Sklar & James Brewer Stewart. (New Haven:Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 57-81.

“La Aventura del sufragio femenino en el mundo,” in Historia de una conquista; Clara Campoamor y el voto femenino, ed. Rosa Capel Martinez (Madrid: Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Dirección General de Igualdad de Oportunidades, 2007).

Review of Judith Surkis, Sexing the Citizen on H-France Forum. May 2007.

“Dancing with the Patriarchs,” review of Judith Bennett, History Matters, for the Women’s Review of Books, 24:4 (July/Aug. 2007).

“The International Museum of Women,” with Elizabeth L. Colton, in Museum International, no. 236 (59:4) Dec. 2007, pp. 19-25. Special Issue “Gender Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and Museums.” Paris: UNESCO.

Articles published in 2006:
« Le gender est-il une invention américaine ? », in Clio: Histoire, Femmes et Sociétés, no. 24 (2006), 291-304.

«Aperçus sur un siècle de féminismes» with Christine Bard & Sylvie Chaperon, in “Histoire des femmes,” 3rd dossier coordinated by the Mnémosyne Association & Anne-Marie Sohn, Historiens et Géographes, no 394 (April 2006).

“’Eruptions and Flows’: Thoughts on Writing a Comparative History of European Feminisms, 1700-1950” (revised version) in Comparative Women's History: New Approaches, ed. Anne Cova (Boulder and New York: Social Science Monographs/Columbia University Press, 2006), pp. 39-65.

“Intrepid Crusader: Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix Takes on the Prostitution Issue,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History (2005 conference volume, Colorado Springs), ed. Carol E. Harrison & Kathryn A. Edwards. Vol. 33, pp. 357-374. http://www.hti.umich.edu/w/wsfh/images/0642292.0033.022.pdf

Articles published in 2004-2005:
“Challenging Male Hegemony: Feminist Criticism and the Context for Women’s Movements in the Age of European Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions,” in Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Sylvia Paletschek & Bianka Pietrow-Ennker (Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 11-30; notes, pp. 340-345.

“Intre istorie si feminism. Interviu cu Karen Offen,” Observatorcultural (Romania); http://www.observatorcultural.ro/arhivaarticol.phtml?xid=6684

“Des modèles nationaux (1900-1945)?” in Le Siècle des féminismes, ed. Éliane Gubin et al (Paris: Les Éditions de l’Atelier, 2004), pp. 65-79.

“Pionnière de l’histoire des mères et de la maternité : La contribution de Yvonne Knibiehler,” in Femmes, Familles, Filiations: Societé et Histoire. Études réunies par Marcel Bernos et Michèle Bitton en hommage à Yvonne Knibiehler. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2004, pp. 185-192.

“’Woman Has to Set her Stamp on Science, Philosophy, Justice, and Politics’: A Look at Gender Politics in the ‘Knowledge Wars’ of in the European Past,” in Geschlecht und Wissen / Genre et Savoir – Gender and Knowledge: Beiträge der 10. Schweizerischen Historikerinnentagung 2002, ed Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger, Dominique Grisard, & Christina Späti. (Zurich: Chronos, 2004), pp. 379-393.

“Who in the World was Madame Avril de Sainte-Croix?” Published in French as “’La plus grande féministe de France’: Mais qui est donc Madame Avril de Sainte-Croix?” Archives du Féminisme, bulletin no. 9 (Dec. 2005). http://www.archivesdufeminisme.fr

Articles published in 2003:
« Femmes et suffrage « universel »: Une comparaison transatlantique,” in 1848: Actes du colloque international du cent cinquantenaire, tenu à l’Assemblée nationale à Paris, les 23-25 février 1998, ed. Jean-Luc Mayaud (Paris: Société d’histoire de la révolution de 1848 et des révolutions du XIXe siècle et CREAPHIS, 2002), pp. 29-45. [Volume actually appeared in 2003].

“French Women’s History: Retrospect (1789-1940) and Prospect,” French Historical Studies 26:4 (Fall 2003), 727-67. [Project Muse has pdf and html versions] http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/french_historical_studies/vO26/26.4offen.pdf 

On-line review of Anne Verjus, Le cens de la famille: Les femmes et le vote, 1789-1848 (2002), H-France Reviews, vol. 3 (Sept. 2003), no. 104. http://ww3.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/offen.html

“Itinéraire d’une féministe,” Archives du féminisme, no. 6 (Dec. 2003), 21-26.

Articles published in 2002:
“Prologos de Libros: Precursoras olvidadas,” La Aljaba: Segunda Época—Revista de Estudios de la Mujer [Argentina], vol. 6 (2001), 202-209. Translated by Enrique McCormack from the version of the Prologue to European Feminisms, published in The Women’s Review of Books, 17:5 (Feb. 2000).

Article, “Women’s Suffrage,” commissioned for the new International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. ed. Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes (Elsevier, 2002).

“Looking Back, Thinking Ahead: Issues in Women's and Gender History Since Bellagio (1989),” [in Russian], Gendernye istorii Vostochnoy Evropy [Gendered Histories from Eastern Europe] ed. Elena Gapova, Al’mira Usmanova, and Andrea Petö (Minsk: European Humanities University, 2002)..

“Women’s Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century World: States, Gender, and Historiographical Strategies in Comparative Perspective” (review essay), in the Journal of Women’s History, 13:4 (Winter 2002), 180-190. [Project Muse: http://www.muse/jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history ]

Excerpt from “Defining Feminism” (1988), in The European Women’s History Reader, ed. Fiona Montgomery & Christine Collette (London & New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 24-26.

Articles published in 2001:
“Women’s Rights or Human Rights? International Feminism Between the Wars,” in Women’s Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives, ed. Patricia Grimshaw, Katie Holmes, & Marilyn Lake (Proceedings of the 1998 Melbourne conference of the International Federation for Research in Women's History; London: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 243-253.

“Umstände, Unwägbarkeiten—Feministinnen der zwanziger Jahre zwischen Krieg, Revolution und neuem Wissensstreit,” in Feminismus und Demokratie: Europäische Frauenbewegungen der 1920er Jahre, ed. Ute Gerhard (Königstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2001), pp. 210-235.

Articles published in 2000:
“Forgotten Forerunners,” Women’s Review of Books 17:5 (Feb. 2000), 27-28.

In Bulgarian in Kultura (Sofia, Bulgaria) in March 2000

In Spanish as “Prologos de Libros: Precursoras olvidadas,” La Aljaba: Segunda Época—Revista de Estudios de la Mujer (Argentina), vol. 6 (2001), 202-209.

In Roumanian (Bucharest)—see 2002 articles above

“A Historical Memory for Women: The Gosteli Archive Documents More Than One Hundred Years of Swiss Women's History,” a translation, with Kornelia Freitag, of an article by Claudia Wirz from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Journal of Women’s History, 12:1 (Spring 2000), 165-171. [Project Muse: http://www.muse/jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history ]

“Eruptions and Flows: Thoughts on Writing a Comparative History of European Feminisms, 1700-1950,” in Women’s Politics and Women in Politics: In Honour of Ida Blom, ed. Sölvi Sogner & Gro Hagemann. (Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag & Universitetet i Bergen, 2000), pp. 281-300.

“Feminism, Antifeminism, and National Family Politics in Early Third Republic France,” updated version in the revised second edition of Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present, ed. Marilyn J. Boxer & Jean H. Quataert (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 204-213.

Articles published in 1999:
“Foreword” to Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain, ed. Victoria Lorée Enders & Pamela Beth Radcliff (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999).

“Women and the Question of ‘Universal’ Suffrage in 1848: A Transatlantic Comparison of Suffragist Rhetoric,” with supporting documents in French and in English translation, NWSA Journal, 11:1 (Spring 1999), pp. 150-177.

“Going Against the Grain: The Making of an Independent Scholar,” in Voices of Women Historians, ed. Eileen Boris & Nupur Chaudhuri (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).

“Feminist Rituals in the Conquest of Public Space: A Comparative Perspective (or; Anti Rituals? Feminism(s) in Europe and the Challenge of ‘Making It Up as You Go’,” in Pautas Históricas de Sociabilidad Femenina: Rituales y Modelos de Representación—Actas del V Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación Española de Investigación Histórica de las Mujeres, ed. Mary Nash, Maria José de la Pascua, & Gloria Espigado (Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Cádiz, 1999), pp. 143-150.

Articles published in 1998:
“Contextualizing the Theory and Practice of Feminism in Nineteenth Century Europe (1789-1914),” in Becoming Visible: Women in European History, Third edition, ed. Renate Bridenthal, Susan Mosher Stuard, & Merry Wiesner Hanks (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998), pp. 327-355.

“Reclaiming the European Enlightenment for Feminism: Or, Prologomena to any Future History of Eighteenth Century Europe,” in Perspectives on Feminist Thought in European History: From the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Tjitske Akkerman & Siep Stuurman (London & New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 84-103.

“Feminist Historiography and the French Welfare State: A Comparative Perspective,” in Frauen und Staat/ Les Femmes et l'État, ed. Brigitte Studer, Regina Wecker, & Béatrice Ziegler, a special issue of Itinera (Société Générale Suisse d'Histoire), no. 20 (1998).

« Les Femmes, la citoyenneté et le droit de vote en France, 1789-1993 » in Féminismes et identités nationales: Les Processus d'intégration des femmes au politique, ed. Yolande Cohen & Françoise Thébaud (Lyon: Programme Rhône Alpes de Recherche en Sciences Humaines, 1998), pp. 47-70.

Articles published in 1997:
“Getting to the Source: ‘What! Such Things Have Happened and No Women were Taught about Them’: A Nineteenth Century French Woman's View of the Importance of Women's History,” Journal of Women’s History 9:2 (Summer 1997), 147-153.

“Comment” on Judith Bennett's essay, “'Confronting Continuity,” Journal of Women’s History 9:3 (Autumn 1997), 105-113..

“Die Geschlechterpolitik in der französchischen Frauengeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts,” in a volume on nineteenth‑century European historiography, Geschichtsdiskurs.  Band III: Die Epoche der Historisierung, ed. Wolfgang Küttler, Jörn Rusen, & Ernst Schulin (Frankfurt‑am‑Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlang, 1997), 100‑117.

Articles published in 1996:
“Was Mary Wollstonecraft a Feminist? A Contextual Re Reading of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792-1992,” in Quilting a New Canon: Stitching Women’s Words, ed. Uma Parameswaran (Toronto: Sister Vision, 1996), pp. 3-24.

Translated in Serbo-Croatian, in Zenske Studie (Belgrade), 13 (2003). Online at http://www.zenskestudie.edu.yu/srpski/zenskestudije/zs_s13/

Articles published in 1995:
“Reflections on National Specificities in Continental European Feminisms,” University College Galway Women's Studies Centre Review (Ireland), vol. 3 (1995), 53-61.

Articles published in 1994:
“Women, Citizenship, and Suffrage in the French Context, 1789-1993,” Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives, ed. Melanie Nolan & Caroline Daley (Auckland: Auckland University Press; co published with New York University Press & Pluto Press, London, 1994), pp. 151-170.

Reprinted (without endnotes) in a Festschrift volume honoring Gordon Wright, The Transformation of Modern France, ed. William B. Cohen (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997).

In French translation: « Les Femmes, la citoyenneté et le droit de vote en France, 1789-1993 » in Féminismes et identités nationales: Les Processus d'intégration des femmes au politique, ed. Yolande Cohen & Françoise Thébaud (Lyon: Centre Jacques Cartier, 1998), 47-70.

Articles published in 1991:
“Body Politics: Women, Work, and the Politics of Motherhood in France, 1920-1950,” in Maternity & Gender Policies: Women and the RIse of the European Welfare States, 1880s 1950s, ed. Gisela Bock and Pat Thane (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 138-159. An earlier version circulated as “Women and the Politics of Motherhood in France, 1920-1940,” Working Paper no. 87-291, European University Institute, Florence (Italy), 1987.

“Exploring the Sexual Politics of French Republican Nationalism,” in Nationhood and Nationalism in France, ed. Robert Tombs (London: Harper/Collins Academic, acquired by Routledge, 1991), pp. 195-209.

Articles published in 1990:
“Women's Memory, Women’s History, Women’s Political Action: The French Revolution in Retrospect, 1789 1889 1989,” Journal of Women’s History, 1:3 (Winter 1989-90), 211-230.

“Feminism and Sexual Difference in Historical Perspective,” in Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, ed. Deborah Rhode (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990): 13-20, notes 266-267.

“The New Sexual Politics of French Revolutionary Historiography” (review essay), French Historical Studies, 16:4 (Fall 1990), 909-922. Available online through JSTOR: http://links/jstor/org 

Articles published in 1988:
“Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14:1 (Autumn 1988), 119-157. See also exchanges in 15:1. Available through JSTOR: http://links/jstor.org Japanese version in Nichibei Josei Journal/U.S. Japan Women's Journal, no. 3 (Autumn 1988).French version in Bulletin d'information des études féminines, nos. 20 21 (Dec. 1988), pp.7-27.

Spanish version in Historia social, no. 9 (Winter 1991), 103-135.

German version in Geschlechterverhaltnisse im historischen Wandel, ed. Hanna Schissler (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1992), 97-138.

Italian version in Il primo femminismo (1791-1834), ed. Anna Rossi (Milan: Unicopli, 1993), 27-65.

Abbreviated English version in Beyond Equality and Difference: Citizenship, Feminist Politics, and Female Subjectivity, ed. Gisela Bock and Susan James (London: Routledge, 1992).

Excerpted in The European Women’s History Reader, ed. Fiona Montgomery & Christine Collette (London & New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 24-26.

“’Powered by a Woman’s Foot’: A Documentary Introduction to the Sexual Politics of the Sewing Machine in Nineteenth Century France,” Women’s Studies International Forum, 11:2 (March 1988), 93-101. Available by-online through the publisher, Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/o2775395

“Sur l'origine des mots ‘Féminisme’ et ‘Féministe’”, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine (Paris), 34:3 (July Sept. 1987), pp. 492-496.

Japanese version published in Nichibei Josei Journal/U.S. Japan Women's Journal, no. 1 (Spring 1988).

English version, “On the French Origin of the Words ‘Feminism’ and ‘Feminist,’”Feminist Issues, 8:2 (Fall 1988), 45-51.

“Minotaur or Mother? The Gendering of the State in Early Third Republic France,” in Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State: Conferences at the Center for European Studies [Harvard University], 1987-88, ed. Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, et al. (Cambridge, MA, 1988, photocopy edition).

Articles published in 1987:
“Liberty, Equality, and Justice for Women: The Theory and Practice of Feminism in Nineteenth Century Europe,” chapter commissioned for the second revised edition of Becoming Visible: Women in European History, ed. Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, & Susan Mosher Stuard (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), pp. 335-373.

“Feminism, Antifeminism, and National Family Politics in Early Third Republic France,” in ,em>Connecting Spheres: Women in the Western World, 1500 to the Present, ed. Marilyn J. Boxer & Jean H. Quataert (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 177-186.

“Qui est Jenny P. d'Héricourt? Une Identité rétrouvée,” 1848: Révolutions et mutations au XIXe siècle, no. 3 (1987), pp. 87-100.

English version, “A Nineteenth Century French Feminist Rediscovered: Jenny P. d'Héricourt, 1809-1875,” Signs, 13:1 (Autumn 1987), 144-158. Available electronically at JSTOR.

Articles published in 1986:
“Ernest Legouvé and the Doctrine of ‘Equality in Difference’ for Women: A Case Study of Male Feminism in Nineteenth Century French Thought,” Journal of Modern History, 58:2 (June 1986), 452-484. Available electronically at JSTOR.

“Reflections on the Publishing Crisis in French History,” French Historical Studies, 14:4 (Fall 1986), pp. 591-595. Available electronically at JSTOR.

Articles published in 1984:
“Depopulation, Nationalism, and Feminism in Fin de siècle France,” The American Historical Review, 89:3 (June 1984), pp. 648-676. Available electronically at JSTOR.

“The Beginnings of 'Scientific’ Women’s History in France, 1830-1848,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 1983, vol. 2 (Lawrence, Kansas, 1984), pp. 255-264.

Articles published in 1983:
“The Second Sex and the Baccalauréat in Republican France, 1880-1924,” French Historical Studies, 13:2 (Fall 1983), pp. 252-286. Available electronically at JSTOR.

Articles published in 1982:
“First Wave Feminism in France: New Work and Resources,” Women’s Studies International Forum (London), 5:6 (1982), pp. 685-689. Available electronically through Elsevier buy-online.