Bonnie J. Morris

Bonnie J. Morris works as an American historian, teacher, archivist, and writer whose scholarship places women’s experiences inside cultural and political history. She earned a doctorate in women’s history at Binghamton University and taught for many years at George Washington University and Georgetown before joining the University of California, Berkeley. Women’s History For Beginners offers an accessible chronological introduction to subjects often compressed or omitted in conventional surveys. Morris’s wider scholarship ranges across women’s music, sports, Jewish women’s history, and the loss of lesbian cultural spaces. Her books include The Feminist Revolution, The Disappearing L, What’s the Score?, and Eden Built By Eves. She has also advised the National Women’s History Museum and worked as archivist and historian for Olivia Records. That combination of classroom practice and archival work gives Women’s History For Beginners a clear place within a career devoted to recovering records, institutions, and communities that standard narratives have frequently overlooked.