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Judith P. Zinsser
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Articles


RESEARCH ARTICLES

  • "La marquise Du Châtelet:sa morale et sa métaphysique" Colloque:Tricentenaire de la naissance de la marquise Du Châtelet (Geneva: Eighteenth-Century Studies, forthcoming 2007)
  • “Mentors, the marquise Du Châtelet and Historical Memory.” Notes and Recordsof the Royal Society (forthcoming, 2007)
  • "La marquise Du Châtelet et les historiens," Madame Du Châtelet: La Femme des lumières eds. Elisabeth Badinter and Danielle Muzerelle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 2006)
  • “The Many Representations of the Marquise Du Châtelet,” Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science, ed. Judith P. Zinsser ( DeKalb IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005)
  • “A Prologue for La Dame d’Esprit: The Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet.” Experiments in Rethinking History, eds. Alan Munslow and Robert A. Rosenstone ( New York: Routledge, 2004): 195-208.
  • “Why Are There No 18 th Century Women Scientists and Philosophers? The Marquise Du Châtelet and the Categorization of Knowledge,” Geschlecht und Wissen, eds. Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger, Dominique Grisard, Helene Fuger, Christina Spati (Hrsg.) (Chronos, 2005): 267-73.
  • "A Remarkable Collaboration: the marquise Du Châtelet and Alexis Clairaut," co-authored with Olivier Courcelle, Studies on Voltaire & the Eighteenth Century, (Winter 2003): 107-20
  • "A Prologue for La Dame d'Esprit: The Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet." Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (December 2003): 13-22
  • "Entrepreneur of the Republic of Letters: Emilie de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet and Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees," French Historical Studies 25 (Fall 2002): 595-624.
  • "From Mexico to Copenhagen to Nairobi: The United Nations Decade for Women 1975-1985," Journal of World History 13 (Spring 2002): 139-68. Reprinted on Women and Social Movements website.
  • "Translating Newton's Principia: The Marquise Du Châtelet's Revisions and Additions for a French Audience," Notes and Records of the Royal Society 55 (May 2001): 227-45
  • "Madame Du Châtelet: Genius, Gender, and Intellectual Authority," Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, ed. Hilda L. Smith (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998): 168-90
  • "The Popular Initiative: The Feminist Impact on History," A Diplomacy of the Oppressed: Directions in International Feminism, ed. Georgina Ashworth (London: Zed Books, 1993): 186-204
  • "The Third Week in July," Women's Studies International Forum 6 (1983): 547-57 [on the United Nations Mid-Decade Conference on Women, Copenhagen, 1980]

NEWSPAPER/CURRENT AFFAIRS

  • "End the Violence" [Report from UN Women's Conference in Beijing], Hamilton Journal News, 8 October 1995: D1, D3 [reprinted in the newsletter of the Peace History Society]
  • "Equality Up for Grabs in Maternity Benefits Battle," New Directions for Women 17 (July/August 1989): 16 [full page]
  • "The Seven Sisters on the International Women's Front," Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin (Fall 1985): 24-25
  • "Nairobi Confab Ends on High Note" New Directions for Women (September/October 1985): 1, 12, 14 [lead story on United Nations End of Decade Conference]
  • Newspaper articles for the Women's International News Service: "Economic Degradation Turns World's Women to Prostitution," "Trickle Up Programs Effective for Disadvantaged Women," "United Nations Conference Planning Was a Challenge," Salt Lake Tribune; "Couple's Work Helps Thousands," The Columbia Missourian (July 1985)

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

  • "The Marquise Du Châtelet," Enlightenment and Revolution, 1690-1815 : An Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionary, ed. Kevin E. Dodson (Greenwood, forthcoming 2004)
  • "Periodization," Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, ed. Serinity Young (New York: Macmillan Reference, 1998)
  • A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. D.R. Woolf (New York: Garland, 1998)
    • "Indigenous Historiography," Vol. I, 463-465
    • "Margaret Atwood Judson," Vol. I, 498
    • "Joan Kelly," Vol. II, 504
    • "Gerda Lerner," Vol. II, 554
    • "Nelly Nielson," Vol. II, 653
    • "Psychohistory," Vol. II, 749-50
    • "Public/Private, Historical Division of," Vol. II, 746-47