Susan Ware
Susan Ware | |
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Born | August 22, 1950 |
Education | A.B., Wellesley College, History 1972 Ph.D., Harvard University, History 1978 |
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Years active | 1978–present |
Employer | Oxford University Press |
Known for | Women's history scholar |
Spouse | Donald R. Ware |
Website | http://www.susanware.net |
Susan Ware (born August 22, 1950) is an American independent scholar, writer and editor who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Hopkinton, New Hampshire. The author of eight biographies, two edited collections, and co-editor of a textbook, Ware is a specialist on 20th-century women's political and cultural history, and the history of popular feminism.[1]
Life
Ware graduated from Wellesley College in 1972. She matriculated in the graduate program in history at Harvard University in the fall of 1972, completing her A.M in 1973. Ware completed the Ph.D. in 1978, writing a dissertation about feminists in the New Deal under the direction of Barbara Miller Solomon, a pioneering scholar in American women's history.[2] A second mentor was political historian Frank Freidel.[3]
Ware began her career in teaching as a lecturer at Harvard from 1973 to 1978, and in the years her following completion of the Ph.D., taught at
In 2014, upon the retirement of historian
In her early work as a political historian, Ware established herself as an authority on women in the federal government during the
Since becoming an independent scholar, Ware has published and edited numerous books. In 2001, she became the general editor of Notable American Women, a multi-volume reference work that documents the history of women in the United States, Under Ware's direction,
Ware serves as Chair of the Associate Board of Clio Visualizing History, a nonprofit group dedicated to creating innovative online history exhibits designed to attract students and educators and appeal to a wide public audience. She was part of the collaborative team that created and she wrote the text for Click! The Ongoing Feminist Revolution and a companion exhibit to her book Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote (Harvard, 2019)[10] was published as Visualizing Votes for Women: Nineteen Objects from the 19th Amendment Campaign.
Ware is married to Donald R. Ware, head of the
Books
- Ware, Susan (1981). Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674069220.
- Ware, Susan (1989). Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300046212.
- Ware, Susan (2005). It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0814794012. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
- Ware, Susan (2011). Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1469622033.
- Ware, Susan (2014). Title IX: A Brief History with Documents. Waveland Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1478618812.
- Ware, Susan (2018). Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674986688.
References
- ^ Lee, A.C. (February 21, 2013). "Symposium on 'Feminine Mystique,' and More". The New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
- ^ Lambert, Bruce (August 23, 1992). "Barbara Solomon, 73, Educator and Pioneer in Women's Studies". The New York Times. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
- ^ Ware, Susan (2014). "Susan Ware: My Life in the Archives". No. Spring. Schlesinger Library Newsletter. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
- ^ "Resourceful Women: Researching and Interpreting Women's History". The Library of Congress. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
- ^ "Susan Ware Appointed Senior Advisor to the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study". Retrieved October 15, 2014.
- ^ "Historian Jane Kamensky Joins Radcliffe Institute And HarvardHistory Department". Radcliffe Institute. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
- ^ Geissinger, Mike (November 13, 1987). "Washington Talk: Women in Government; Tales of the Pioneers". The New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
- doi:10.1086/493931.
- ^ Freeman, Jo (March 1989). "Review, "Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism and New Deal Politics"". The American Political Science Review. 83 (1): 273.
- ^ Ware, Susan (2019). Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.