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Wendy L. Rouse is a historian with research interests focus on the history of women and children during the Progressive Era. Her most recent book, Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Suffrage Movement by NYU Press, was published in 2022. Rouse has also written, Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement by NYU Press. This book examines the emergence of women's self-defense alongside the first-wave of feminism during the Progressive Era. Her first book, Children of Chinatown: Growing up Chinese American in San Francisco by UNC Press, explores the lives of Chinese American children during the era of Chinese exclusion.

Rouse teaches United States history and social science teacher preparation at San Jose State ...more

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	Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement 3.80 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement 4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Excited to announce that Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement (NYU Press) is now available in paperback. Read more of this blog post »

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Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

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“Some women chose to embody this new form of physical empowerment & transformed their words into actions. Exhibition boxer Minnie Rosenblatt Besser had spent years training in the manly art of boxing. She promised to meet any willing opponent, male or female, in the ring. Besser specifically called out several famous male boxers but insisted that she was most anxious to meet Brooklyn boxer Eddie Avery, who had been arrested for wife-beating. Besser explained, 'Any man who will strike a helpless woman I believe to be a coward. Should Avery pluck up enough courage to meet me I think I will prove the truth of this proposition to the world at large.”
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