The books below deal with gender history.  They are available through Amazon.com.  Just click on the book cover or the title link and it will take you directly to that book page at Amazon.  I have also included books that were used for my research in this list.  Those not available at Amazon will not have links.  Wado.

Review of Other Powers by Barbara Goldsmith
                    Mention the word "suffragette" and immediately the reader imagines a parade of 19th-century female firebrands marching on the corridors of power, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the  forefront. The reality of suffrage in America is at once more complex and fascinating than that. The
                     19th century was an age of radical thought; utopianism, abolition, free love, and women's suffrage were all topics of discussion in the sermons, salons, and editorials of the day, along with a fascination with natural sciences and a craze for all things occult. Out of this strange mix of politics and
                     spiritualism emerged Victoria Claflin Woodhull. Psychic, suffragette, publisher, presidential
                     candidate, and self-confessed practitioner of free love, Woodhull embodied all the passions of the age, making her an ideal subject for biography. In Other Powers, Barbara Goldsmith attempts to tell
                     not only Woodhull's story, but also that of the era in which she lived.

                     Certainly Victoria Woodhull was the kind of woman one might expect to see immortalized on Masterpiece Theater. Her mother saw spirits, her father sold snake oil, and on occasion Victoria
                     and her younger sister dabbled in prostitution. Later, sister Tennessee became the mistress of transportation magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, and she and Victoria set themselves up as                    spiritualists-cum-stockbrokers, an activity that brought them to the attention of Susan B. Anthony.
                     Before long, Victoria was delivering voting-rights speeches on Capitol Hill and running for president on a spiritualist ticket. Woodhull's life is a fascinating one--and the other lives that run through it,
                     from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Horace Greeley and the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, are equally interesting. In this present era of New Age hocus pocus, scandalous public figures, and
                     political humbuggery, Other Powers reminds us that we weren't the first--and probably won't be the  last--to mix sex, spirituality, and politics in the crucible of public affairs.

Normally I would not mix genres when recommending books, however, from time to time I may crosslist them when I see they might not be a book that would be given consideration otherwise.

Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women" (paperback)
edited by Victoria A. Brownworth and Judith M. Redding
Gothic fiction transforms normality--the supernatural
becomes the everyday, human fears are exaggerated, familiar
landscapes are turned into places that are strange and
bizarre. Female writers have inhabited this landscape for
generations. Mary Shelley, Anne Rice, and Angela Carter are
just three of the more famous dark divas. Now some less
well-known voices have their say in "Night Shade: Gothic
Tales by Women." The 17 short stories take place in everyday
settings--contemporary houses, a bar, a veterinary hospital.
Yet in this collection, the familiar is subverted. In Roz
Warren's "The Birthday Present," a quite ordinary young
woman is given a special gift on her 25th birthday--the
powers of shapeshifting. When she falls in love with a
married man, Liza morphs into a body that this man will find
irresistible.

"Night Shade" is a melting pot of the erotic, the
supernatural, and the gloriously gory. Fans of Gothic
fiction will eat it up.

"The First Sex"
by Helen Fisher

Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fisher isn't afraid of
immodest proposals. The woman who demystified four million
years' worth of romance in "Anatomy of Love" now suggests in
"The First Sex" that evolution favors women.  Citing recent
research in biology, sociology, sociobiology, and anthropology,
Fisher makes a strong case for a near future in which the
natural talents of women as thinkers, communicators, and
healers, adapted to the age of information, create a new kind of
global leadership in business, medicine, and education, skewing
the power dynamics of sex and relationships towards the
feminine.  Women, she says, are contextual thinkers to a far
greater degree than men; this "web thinking," as Fisher dubs it,
is an asset in a global marketplace. Women are far more talented
than men at achieving win-win outcomes in negotiations. On an
organizational level, women are less interested in rank and more
interested in relationships and networking, an essential
attribute in a world without borders. In the arena of education,
women have a natural talent for language and self-expression; as
healers, they enjoy an emotional empathy with their charges that
can and will redefine doctor-patient relationships. And, she
predicts, in the next century women will reinvent love by
asserting feminine sexuality and creating peer marriages, true
partnerships. While Fisher's future may seem idealized, her
science and her sociology make for a well-reasoned case that the
people Simone de Beauvoir once defined as "the second sex" are
about to move to the head of the class.

        "The First Sex" is a controversial book.  It is intriguing          and raises many questions about the constructs of gender.  Check it out!