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Barbara Sicherman

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and women's reading habits. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe from 1973 to 1974, and a Guggenheim fellow in 1996. She served on the board of the
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Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984; reissued by University of Illinois Press, 2003.
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Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
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Notable American Women: The Modern Period, ed. with Carol Hurd Green. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
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Sicherman was a professor at Trinity College from 1982 through 2005. She taught courses on women's history,
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Sicherman is a specialist in women's history and has conducted research on topics such as medical and
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for many years and was a volunteer tutor at Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford.
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Sicherman has published articles and chapters on a variety of topics, including
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The Quest for Mental Health in America, 1880–1917. New York: Arno Press, 1980.
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Notable American women: the modern period: a biographical dictionary
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Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women
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Professor of American Institutions and Values Emerita at
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is an American historian and academic who specializes in
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Sicherman, Barbara; Green, Carol Hurd, eds. (1980).
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Alma mater
women's history
William R. Kenan Jr.
Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut
Swarthmore College
Columbia University
American culture
women's studies
psychiatric history
reproductive rights
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center




"Barbara Sicherman"




"Barbara Sicherman"



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doi
10.1353/rah.2012.0037
ISSN
0048-7511

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