Judith P. Zinsser

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Books


BOOKS OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH AND SYNTHESIS

La Dame d'Esprit

La Dame d’Esprit: a Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet (Viking 2006).


See the reviews of the biography in the New York Times Book Review and Scientific American.

   
A History Of Their Own
A History Of Their Own
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
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A New Partnership...

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.

Partnership Content

Partnership Forward

   
History and Feminism... 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]

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EDITED WORKS

Rewriting Enlightenment Philosophy and Science 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)

Men, Women and the Birthing of Modern Science 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

Women and Gender History 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)