Western Association of Women Historians
Judith Lee Ridge Prize
The Judith Lee Ridge Prize is an annual prize that recognizes the best article in the field of history published by a WAWH member. Award bylaws are available.
Previous Winners
2008
Marilyn Boxer, San Francisco State University, Emerita, "Rethinking the Socialist Construction and International Career of the Concept 'Bourgeois Feminism'," American Historical Review 112, no. 1 (2007).
2007
Carolyn Herbst Lewis, "Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic
Exam and Heterosexuality During the Cold
War," Journal of Women's History Vol. 17, No.
4, 2005.
2006
Carla Bittel, "Science, Suffrage, and Experimentation: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Controversy over Vivisection in Late Nineteenth-Century America." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79 (2005): 664-694.
2005
Lisa Forman Cody, “Living and Dying in Georgian London’s Lying-in Hospitals,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 78.2 (Summer 2004): 309-48.
2004
Elena Shulman, "Soviet Maids for the Socialist Fortress: The Khetagurovite Campaign to Settle the Far East, 1937-39." The Russian Review 62 (July 2003), 387-410.
2003
Lynn Sacco, "Sanitized for Your Protection: Medical Discourse and the Denial of Incest in the United States, 1890-1940," Journal of Women's History 14 (Autumn 2002): 80-104.
2002
Lisa Forman Cody, "The Politics of Illegitimacy in an Age of Reform: Women, Reproduction, and Political Economy in England's New Poor Law of 1834," Journal of Women's History 11 (Winter 2000): 131-156.
2001
Barbara Malony, “Women’s Rights, Feminism, and Suffragism in Japan, 1870-1925.” Pacific Historical Review (November 2000, Volume 69, No. 4).
2000
Amy Froide, “Marital Status as a Category of Difference: Singlewomen and Widows in Early Modern England” in Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
1999
Kathleen Kennedy, "Casting an Evil Eye on the Youth on the Nation: Motherhood and Political Subversion in the Wartime Prosecution of Kate Ruchard O'Hare, 1917-1924," American Studies 39(3) (Fall 1998): 105-129.
1998
Patricia A. Schechter, "Unsettled Business: Ida B. Wells Against Lynching, or How Antilynching Got Its Gender," in Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South, ed. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 292-317.
1997
Margaret Rose, "'Woman Power Will Stop Those Grapes': Chicana Organizers and Middle-Class Supporters in the Farm Workers' Grape Boycott in Philadelphia, 1969-1970," Journal of Women's History 7(4) (Winter 1995): 6-36.
1996
Wendy Gamber, "Reduced to Science: Gender, Technology and Power in the American Dressmaking Trade, 1860-1910," Journal of the History of Technology (July 1995): 455-482.
1995
Margaret Lavinia Anderson, "Voter, Junker, Landrat, Priest: The Old Authorities and the New Franchise in Imperial Germany," American Historical Review 98 (December 1993).
1994
Linda Lewin, "Natural and Spurious Children in Brazilian Inheritance Law From Colony to Empire: A Methodological Essay," The Americas XLVIII No. 3 (January 1992), 351-396.
1993
Nancy Fitch, "Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism: The Dreyfus Affair in Rural France," The American Historical Review 97(1) (February, 1992).
1992
Francesca Miller, "Latin American Feminism and the Transnational Arena, " in Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America (University of California Press, 1990).
Honorable Mention: Karen Offen, "Women's Memory, Women's History, Women's Political Action: The French Revolution in Retrospect, 1789, 1889, 1989," Journal of Women's History 1(3) (1990).
1991
Margaret DeLacy, "Puerperal Fever in Eighteenth-Century Britain," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 63(4) (1989).
1990
Karen Offen, "Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14(1) (1988).
1989
Ruth M. Alexander, "We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters: Class and Domesticity in the Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840-1850," Journal of American History 75 (1988).
Honorable Mention: Edith B. Gelles, "The Abigiail Industries," The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. Series, XLV (October 1988): 656-683, and Barbara Corrado Pope, "A Heroine Without Heroics: The Little Flower of Jesus and Her Times," Church History 57 (March 1988): 46-60.
1988
Karen Offen, "Ernest Legouv and the Doctrine of 'Equality in Difference' for Women: A Case Study of Male Feminism in Nineteenth-Century French Thought," Journal of Modern History 58(2) (1986).
Non-Ridge Prize article award winners
1987
Marilyn J. Boxer, "Protective Legislation and Home Industry: The Marginalization of Women Workers in Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Century France," Journal of Social History 20(1) (Fall 1986).
1986
No prize awarded.
1985
Anne M. Boylan, "Women in Groups: An Analysis of Women's Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston, 1797-1840," Journal of American History 71(3) (December 1984).
Read more about the Judith Lee Ridge Prize Award
updated June 5, 2008