Barbara Sicherman

Biographic Data

ID681667
NAMEBarbara Sicherman
GIVEN NAMESBarbara
FAMILY NAMESicherman
SIGNATURESICHERMAN B
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Keynote: “Let's Do It!”—Women Making History in the Land of Steady Habits

    Barbara SichermanARTICLEConnecticut History Review2025

    This year's Association for the Study of Connecticut History (ASCH) Conference on Women in Connecticut, held on November 12, 2011, elicited an impressive range of topics that should help women take their place in the state's history. Just as Connecticut history has not fully incorporated women, so the state has yet to find its place in the national narrative. This is probably the typical fate of a small state. But for Connecticut, located as it i…

  • Introduction: Griswold v. Connecticut

    Barbara SichermanARTICLEConnecticut History Review2025

    On April 30, 2015, three historians, two law professors, and a physician assistant met in New Haven to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut. This landmark 1965 Supreme Court decision overturned an 1879 state law that made the use of contraceptives a criminal offense. It did so on the grounds that the statute violated a constitutional right to privacy for married couples, the first time such a right was invoked.*Our retrospecti…

  • Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters

    Barbara SichermanBOOKAlice Hamilton2013

  • Reading and Ambition: M. Carey Thomas and Female Heroism

    Open AccessBarbara SichermanARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1993

    [T]HE FACT IS, FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD MINNIE THOMAS DECLARED in 1871: don't care much for any thing except dreaming about being grand & noble & famous but I can never be. She did become famous as M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College, where she provided a model and an environment promoted ambition in other female dreamers. As an adolescent she hoped to show that the woman who has fought all the battles of olden time over again whitest readin…

  • Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s

    Barbara Sicherman, Helen Lefkowitz HorowitzARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1987

  • Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters

    Judith A Mcgaw, Judith Mcgaw et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1986

  • Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters

    Judith Walzer Leavitt, Barbara SichermanARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1985

  • Two Women: Autonomy and Caretaking in a New Century

    Martha Minow, Cynthia Grant Tucker et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1985

  • Science and Gender Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 . Margaret W. Rossiter

    Barbara Sicherman, John Lankford et al.ARTICLEIsis1984

  • Biography as Prescription

    Sheila M Rothman, Barbara Sicherman et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1981

  • The Uses of a Diagnosis: Doctors, Patients, and Neurasthenia

    Barbara SichermanARTICLEJournal of the History of…1977Cited by: 10

    Journal Article The Uses of a Diagnosis: Doctors, Patients, and Neurasthenia Get access BARBARA SICHERMAN BARBARA SICHERMAN Notable American Women Radcliffe CollegeCambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXII, Issue 1, January 1977, Pages 33–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXII.1.33 Published: 01 January 1977

  • Communication

    Barbara SichermanARTICLELabor History1976

  • The Paradox of Prudence: Mental Health in the Gilded Age

    Barbara SichermanARTICLEJournal of American History1976Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Paradox of Prudence: Mental Health in the Gilded Age Get access Barbara Sicherman Barbara Sicherman research associate Radcliffe Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 4, March 1976, Pages 890–912, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903843 Published: 01 March 1976

  • American History

    Barbara SichermanARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…1975Cited by: 1