2008

Kathy Davis, The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders (Duke Univ. Press, October 2007)

2007

Mrinalini Sinha, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire, Duke Univ. Press, 2006

Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (University of California Press, 2005)

2005

Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (University of California Press, 2005)

2004

Laura Gowing, King's College London, Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeeth-Century England (Yale University Press, 2003)

2003

Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago, Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (University of North Carolina Press, 2003)

2002

Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2001)

2001

Laura Wexler, Yale University, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (U. of North Carolina Press, 2000)

2000

Elizabeth Thompson, U. of Virginia, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (Columbia Univ. Press, 2000)

1999

Linda K. Kerber, U. of Iowa, No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill and Wang, 1998)

1998

Ellen Carol DuBois, U. of California at Los Angeles, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (Yale U. Press, 1997)

1997

Gail Hershatter, Merrill College, U. of California at Santa Cruz, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (U. of California Press, 1997)

1996

Ann B. Shteir, York U., Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760–1860 (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1996)

1995

Mary Lowenthal Felstiner, San Francisco State U., To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era(Harper Collins, 1994)

1994

Mary Louise Roberts, Stanford U., Civilization Without Sexes; Reconstructing, Gender in Postwar France, 1917–1927 (U. of Chicago Press, 1994)

1993

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard U., Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 (Harvard U. Press, 1993)

1992

Victoria de Grazia, Rutgers U., How Fascism Ruled Women. Italy, 1922–1945 (U. of California Press, 1992)

1991

Susan Glenn, U. of Texas, Austin, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation

1990

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, U. of New Hampshire, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989

Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia U. Press)

Mary H. Blewett, U. of Lowell, Women and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Factory, 1780–1910 (U. of Illinois Press)

1988

Linda Gordon, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880–1960 (New York: Viking Press)

1987

Ruth Milkman, Graduate Center, CUNY, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II (Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press)

1986

Gerda Lerner, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, The Creation of Patriarchy (Oxford U. Press)

1985

Claire G. Moses, U. of Maryland, French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (State U. of New York Press)

1984

Rosalind Petchesky, Ramapo College, Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality, and the Conditions of Reproduction Freedom (Northeastern U.P.)