Bonnie S. Anderson

38 Seventh Avenue, #2

Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217

917/710-1876

bonnie100@earthlink.net

Education

            B.A., summa cum laude, History, Brown University, 1964

            M.A., Ph.D., History, Columbia University, 1966, 1972

 

Employment

            2005-now Professor Emerita of History, Brooklyn College and

                         the Graduate Center, City University of New York

2001-05 Broeklundian Professor of History, Brooklyn College

            1991-05 Graduate Faculty, History, City University of New York

            1980-05 History Department, Brooklyn College

1972-80 New School of Liberal Arts, Brooklyn College

 

Publications since 2000

Books

Women in Early Modern and Modern Europe in series Women’s and Gender History in Global Perspective, with Judith P. Zinsser  Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 2001

 

Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement, 1830-1860  New York: Oxford University Press - US, 2000; Oxford - UK, 2001

           

A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, with Judith P. Zinsser, 2 vols., rev. ed., New York: Oxford University Press - US, 2000

 

Articles

“’I Stand With You’: Early International Feminism 1830-1860,” in Eva Schöck-Quintero, Anja Schüler, Annika Wilmers, Kerstin Wolff, eds., Politische Netzwerkerinnen: Internationale Zusammenarbeit von Frauen 1830-1960  Berlin: Trafo Verlag, 2007, pp. 59-78

 

“Frauenemancipation and Beyond: The Use of the Concept of Emancipation by Early European Feminists,” in Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, eds., Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, pp. 82-97

 

“Early International Feminism: The Contributions and Difficulties of Comparative History,” in Anne Cova, ed., Comparative Women’s History: New Approaches  New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, pp. 67-86

 

“Women in Early and Modern Europe: A Transnational Approach,” with Judith P. Zinsser in Bonnie G. Smith, ed., Women’s History in Global Perspective  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005, pp. 111-144

 

“The First International Women’s Movement,” in Carl J. Guarneri, America Compared: American History in International Perspective, vol. I: To 1877, 2^nd ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005, pp. 320-342

 

“Les influences internationals sur les mouvements de femmes en 1848,” in Les Révolutions de 1848, eds. Jean-Luc Mayaud and Michèle Riot-Sarcey, Grâne: Créaphis, 2003, pp. 499-520

 

“Women’s Movement: Early International,” “Women’s Movement: Modern International,” Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women  New York: Routledge, 2001, vol. IV, pp. 2053-2057

 

Reviews since 2000

Sylvia Paletschek and Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, eds., Women's Emancipation

            Movements in The Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective, Journal of

            Modern History, vol. 78, March, 2006, pp. 184-186

 

            David Gilmore, Misogyny: The Male Malady, The Historian, vol. 65, #3,

            Spring, 2003, pp. 781-782

 

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's

            Movement and Kathryn Kish Sklar, Anja Schüler, and Susan Strasser, eds.,

            Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany, Journal of Social

            History, vol. 26, #1, Jan., 2001, pp. 102-104

 

Professional Service since 2000

2009- now, Board of the Jewish Women’s Archives, Brandeis University

2006, March, July; 2008, July, Seminars for high school teachers, Primary Source, Boston

2000-now Advisory Board, Ernestine Rose Society

            1999-2003 Deputy Editor, Women’s History Review, United Kingdom

            1990-2005  New York State Council Speakers in the Humanities Program

 

Lectures and Panels since 2000

“We Explored, We Discovered, We Revealed: The Last Thirty Years of Women’s History,”

Great Lakes History Conference, Keynote Address, Grand Rapids, MI,  October, 2008

“From Letters to a Movement: The Creation of Early International Feminism, 1830-1860,”

Construire le féminisme: échanges et correspondances, Keynote Address, Lyon, Fr. Oct., 2008

“How to Lecture,” Address to Columbia University Graduate History Students, June, 2008

“European Women’s History: Past, Present, and Future,” American Historical Association, Washington D.C., Jan. 2008

“Early International Feminism,” NE Regional Social Studies Conference, Boston, March, 2005

"Joyous Greetings," William Paterson University, March, 2005

“Two Generations of Feminist Women’s History,” with Marcia M. Gallo, Columbia                

            University Seminar on Women and Society, October, 2004

          "Ernestine Rose as International Citizen," Berkshire Conference on Women's History,                

                        University of Connecticut, June, 2002        

“Joyous Greetings,” Colgate University, March, 2002

“Frauenemancipation and Beyond,” invited conference on Sisterhood and Antislavery,

            Yale University, October, 2001

            “Internat’l Feminism,” Portuguese Women’s Hist. Assoc., Lisbon and Porto, May 2001

“Early International Feminism,” American Historical Association Invited Conference on

            “Interactions,” Washington, D.C., March, 2001

“Reading the Past: A History Slam,” American Historical Assoc., Boston, Jan., 2001

 

Recent Biographical Entries

In Who’s Who In America, 2009

In Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, ed. Barbara J. Love,  Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2006, p. 13

In Mulheres Século XX: 101 Livros, ed. Maria Antónia Fiadeiro,  Lisboa, Departamento da Cultura, 2001, pp. 108-109

           

Recent New Editions and Translations of Writings

“Les débuts d’un féminisme international: les apports de l’histoire comparée et ses difficultés,” in Anne Cova, ed., Histoire comparée des femmes, Lyon, ENS  Éditions, 2009

 “Primórdios Do Feminismo Internacional: Contribuições e Dificuldades da História Comparada,” in Anne Cova, dir., História Comparada Das Mulheres  Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 2008

Bonnie S. Anderson y Judith P. Zinsser, Historia de las Mujeres: Una Historia Propia,  single volume edition, Barcelona, Críticia, 2007

“Les femmes de 1848 dans les États allemands” in Christine Fauré, ed. Nouvelle Encyclopédie Politique et Historique des Femmes,  Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2010