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“’Eruptions and Flows’: Thoughts on Writing a Comparative History of European Feminisms, 1700-1950” (revised version) in Comparative Women's History: New Approaches, ed. Anne Cova (Boulder and New York: Social Science Monographs/Columbia University Press, 2006), pp. 39-65.

“Challenging Male Hegemony: Feminist Criticism and the Context for Women’s Movements in the Age of European Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions,” in Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Sylvia Paletschek & Bianka Pietrow-Ennker (Stanford University Press, 2004), 11-30; notes, 340-345.

“Pionnière de l’histoire des mères et de la maternité : La contribution de Yvonne Knibiehler,” in Femmes, Familles, Filiations: Societé et Histoire. Études réunies par Marcel Bernos et Michèle Bitton en hommage à Yvonne Knibiehler. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2004.

“’Woman Has to Set her Stamp on Science, Philosophy, Justice, and Politics’: A Look at Gender Politics in the ‘Knowledge Wars’ of in the European Past,” in Geschlecht und Wissen / Genre et Savoir – Gender and Knowledge: Beiträge der 10. Schweizerischen Historikerinnentagung 2002, ed Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger, Dominique Grisard, Christina Späti. Zurich: Chronos, 2004.

« Femmes et suffrage « universel »: Une comparaison transatlantique,” in 1848: Actes du colloque international du cent cinquantenaire, tenu à l’Assemblée nationale à Paris, les 23-25 février 1998, ed. Jean-Luc Mayaud (Paris: Société d’histoire de la révolution de 1848 et des révolutions du XIXe siècle et CREAPHIS, 2002), pp. 29-45. [Volume actually appeared in 2003].

Article, “Women's Suffrage,” commissioned for the new International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. ed. Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes (Elsevier, 2002).

“Women’s Rights or Human Rights? International Feminism Between the Wars,” in Women’s Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives, ed. Patricia Grimshaw, Katie Holmes, and Marilyn Lake (Proceedings of the 1998 Melbourne conference of the International Federation for Research in Women's History; London: Palgrave, 2001), 243-253.

“Feminist Rituals in the Conquest of Public Space: A Comparative Perspective (or; Anti‑Rituals? Feminism(s) in Europe and the Challenge of ‘Making It Up as You Go’,” in Pautas Históricas de Sociabilidad Femenina: Rituales y Modelos de Representación ‑‑ Actas del V Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación Española de Investigación Histórica de las Mujeres, ed. Mary Nash, Maria‑José de la Pascua, & Gloria Espigado (Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Cádiz, 1999), 143‑150.

“Going Against the Grain: The Making of an Independent Scholar,” in Voices of Women Historians, ed. Eileen Boris & Nupur Chaudhuri (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).

“Women and the Question of ‘Universal’ Suffrage in 1848: A Transatlantic Comparison of Suffragist Rhetoric,” with supporting documents in French and in English translation, NWSA Journal, 11:1 (Spring 1999), 150-177.

“Contextualizing the Theory and Practice of Feminism in Nineteenth‑Century Europe (1789‑1914),” in Becoming Visible: Women in European History, Third edition, ed. Renate Bridenthal, Susan Mosher Stuard, Merry Wiesner Hanks (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998), 327‑355.

« Les Femmes, la citoyenneté et le droit de vote en France, 1789‑1993 » in Féminismes et identités nationales: Les Processus d'intégration des femmes au politique, ed. Yolande Cohen & Françoise Thébaud (Lyon: Programme Rhône‑Alpes de Recherche en Sciences Humaines, 1998).

“Reclaiming the European Enlightenment for Feminism: Or, Prologomena to any Future History of Eighteenth‑Century Europe,” in Perspectives on Feminist Thought in European History: From the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Tjitske Akkerman & Siep Stuurman (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), 84-103.

“Getting to the Source: ‘What! Such Things Have Happened and No Women were Taught about Them': A Nineteenth‑Century French Woman's View of the Importance of Women's History,” Journal of Women’s History 9:2 (Summer 1997), 147‑153.

“Was Mary Wollstonecraft a Feminist? A Contextual Re‑Reading of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792‑1992,” in Quilting a New Canon: Stitching Women's Words, ed. Uma Parameswaran (Toronto: Sister Vision, 1996), 3‑24.

“Reflections on National Specificities in Continental European Feminisms,” University College Galway Women's Studies Centre Review (Ireland), vol. 3 (1995), 53‑61.

“Feminism” in Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. Peter N. Stearns (New York: Garland, 1994), pp. 271-272.

“Women, Citizenship, and Suffrage in the French Context, 1789‑1993,” Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives, ed. Melanie Nolan and Caroline Daley (Auckland: Auckland University Press; co‑published with New York University Press and Pluto Press, London, 1994), 151-170.

“Feminism and Sexual Difference in Historical Perspective,” in Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, ed. Deborah Rhode (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990): 13‑20, notes 266‑67.

« Sur l'origine des mots ‘Féminisme’ et ‘Féministe’ » Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine (Paris), 34:3 (July‑Sept. 1987), 492‑96.
Japanese version published in Nichibei Josei Journal/U.S.‑Japan Women's Journal, no. 1 (Spring 1988).
English version, “On the French Origin of the Words ‘Feminism’ and ‘Feminist,’”Feminist Issues, 8:2 (Fall 1988), 45‑51.

“Liberty, Equality, and Justice for Women: The Theory and Practice of Feminism in Nineteenth‑Century Europe,” chapter commissioned for the second revised edition of Becoming Visible: Women in European History , ed. Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, & Susan Mosher Stuard (Boston: Houghton‑Mifflin, 1987): 335‑73.