Books
BOOKS OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH AND SYNTHESIS
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La Dame d’Esprit: a Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet (Viking 2006). |
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A History of Their Own: Women
in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, co-author with
Bonnie S. Anderson, Vols. I-II (New York: Harper & Row, 1988)
[Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate]; Revised edition (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2000) including a new introduction, the
addition of an epilogue, and a revised reference bibliography
to reflect scholarship since 1988; only minor changes needed in
the overall text. Foreign editions: British [Penguin Books], Spanish
[Critica], Italian [Laterza] and German [Schweizer, Fischer],
1990-94 Website |
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A New Partnership: Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations System (Paris: UNESCO, 1994) French, Spanish editions, 1995-6; partial reprint UNESCO Museum International, 224 (2004): 76-88. |
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History and Feminism: A Glass Half Full (New York: Twayne/Macmillan, 1993) [Choice Best Academic Book Selection]
[commissioned for the series “The Feminist Impact on the Arts
and Sciences “ ed. Claire Sprague] Download the complete book here (PDF 13Mb). |
EDITED WORKS
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Emilie Du Châtelet: Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science, eds. Judith P. Zinsser and Julie Candler Hayes (Voltaire Foundation: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2006) |
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Men, Women and the Birthing of Modern Science ed. Judith P. Zinsser (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005) |
REFERENCE BOOKS
The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, forthcoming 2006): Editorial Board
Encyclopedia of Women in World History ed. Bonnie G. Smith (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2006); Advisory Board
Global Encyclopedia of History Writing ed. D.R. Woolf (New York: Garland, 1998); Associate Editor [for Women's History, Latin American and Indigenous History]
The Chronological History of the Negro in America, ed. Peter Bergman (New York: New American Library, 1969): Associate Editor
TEACHING GUIDES
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Women in Early Modern and Modern Europe, co-author with Bonnie S. Anderson (Washington D.C.: American Historical Association, 2001; commissioned for the series “Women and Gender History from a Global Perspective,” ed. Bonnie G. Smith). Revised edition in Women and Gender History from a Global Perspective ed. Bonnie G. Smith (Illinois University Press, 2004) |
Approaches to the Comparative History of the Americas (Geneva, Switzerland: International Baccalaureate Office [IBO], 1982); Revised edition (Geneva, Switzerland: IBO, 1989) Spanish edition, 1984
Understanding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Geneva, Switzerland: International Schools Association, 1978)







