THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Nancy Ann Hewitt

“I went to college in fall of 1969 and within the first six weeks, I had converted to feminism and anti-war activism.”

Author, Historian, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a leading expert on gender history and feminism. B.A., State University of New York, Brockport. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, March 2022

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More About Nancy:

  • Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Books by Nancy Hewitt
    • Hewitt, Nancy A. (1984). Women’s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822–1872. Cornell University Press. 
    • Hewitt, Nancy A. (2001). Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s. University of Illinois Press. 
    • Hewitt, Nancy A. (2010). No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. Rutgers University Press. 
    • Hewitt, Nancy A. (2018). Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist World. University of North Carolina Press. 
  • Select Interviews
  • Select Publications
    • Co-author (with Steven Lawson), Exploring American Histories: A Brief Survey with Sources (Bedford/St. Martin’s, December 2012)
    • Editor, No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism (Rutgers University Press, 2010)
    • Editor, Companion to American Women’s History (Blackwell’s Publishers, 2002)
    • Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (University of Illinois Press, 2001)
    • Co-author, Who Built America? (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000)
    • “’Seeking  a Larger Liberty’: The U.S. Woman’s Rights Movement in Transatlantic Perspective,” in Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, eds., Woman’s Rights and Abolition in the Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2007)
    • “Economic Crises and Political Mobilization: Reshaping Cultures of Resistance in Tampa’s Communities of Color, 1929-1939,” in Sharon Harley, ed., Women’s Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices (Rutgers University Press, 2007)
    • “Luisa Capetillo: Feminist of the Working Class,” in Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography and Community, eds. Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korrol (Oxford University Press, 2005)
    • “Re-rooting American Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848,” in Patricia Grimshaw, et al, eds., Woman’s Rights as Human Rights (Palgrave, 2001)
    • “The Emma Thread,” in Nupur Chaudhuri and Eileen Boris, eds., Voices of Women Historians (Indiana University Press, 1999)
  • National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites website
  • Wikipedia page