Includes bibliographical references (p. 605-619) and index.
Contents:
Documents : Essential documents. Jane Sherron De Hart -- First American women / Sara Evans -- Ways of her household / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Document : Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 -- Devil in the shape of a woman : the economic basis of witchcraft / Carol F. Karlsen -- Documents : Service and servitude -- Taking the trade : abortion and gender relations in an eighteenth century New England village / Cornelia Hughes Dayton -- Documents : Supporting the revolution -- Republican mother / Linda K. Kerber -- Industrializing America, 1820-1880. Documents : Testimony of slave women -- Nature of female slavery / Deborah Gray White -- Midwestern farming family, 1850 / John Mack Faragher -- Women, children, and the uses of the streets : class and gender conflict in New York City, 1850-1860 / Christine Stansell -- Pastoralization of housework / Jeanne Boydston -- Document : Working conditions in early factories, 1845 -- Sexual division of labor and the artisan tradition / Mary H. Blewett -- Catharine Beecher : transforming the teaching profession / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Female world of love and ritual : relations between women in nineteenth century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- Under the shadow of maternity / Judith Walzer Leavitt -- Abortion in America / James C. Mohr -- Document : Married women's property acts -- Seneca Falls women's rights convention : a study of social networks / Judith Wellman -- Sojourner Truth's defense of the rights of women (as reported in 1851 ; rewritten in 1863) / Nell Irvin Painter -- Document : Political oratory -- Documents : Counterfeit freedom -- Document : Women's centennial agenda, 1876 -- Industrializing America, 1880-1920. Maggie Lena Walker and the independent order of Saint Luke : advancing women, race, and community in turn of the century Richmond / Elsa Barkley Brown -- Seven days a week : domestic work / David M. Katzman -- Document : Working for wages -- Where are the organized women workers? / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Putting on style : working women and leisure in turn of the century New York / Kathy Peiss -- Documents : Struggling for educational opportunities -- Hispanic village women on the Southwest frontier / Sarah Deutsch -- Home mission women, race and culture : the case of native "helpers" / Peggy Pascoe -- Documents : Working for economic and racial justice -- Female support networks and political activism : Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Woman suffrage and white supremacy : a Virginia case study / Suzanne Lebsock -- Document : Controlling reproduction -- Menopause and its meaning / Lois W. Banner -- Modern America, 1920-1990. Equal rights and economic roles : the conflict over the equal rights amendment in the 1920s / Nancy F. Cott -- Eleanor Roosevelt as reformer, feminist, and political boss / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Fasting girls : the emerging ideal of slenderness in American culture / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- "Industrial revolution" in the home : household technology and social change in the twentieth century / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Disorderly women : gender and labor militancy in the Appalachian South / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Harder times : the Great Depression / Jacqueline Jones -- "Powers of the weak" : wife beating and battered women's resistance / Linda Gordon -- Of the tenant child as mother to the woman / Margaret Jarman Hagood -- Prostitutes on strike : the women of hotel street during World War II / Beth Bailey, David Farber -- Japanese American women during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto -- Gender at work : the sexual division of labor during World War II / Ruth Milkman -- Unwed mothers, social workers, and the postwar family : White neurosis, Black pathology / Regina G. Kunzel -- "Mannishness," lesbianism, and homophobia in U.S. women's sports / Susan K. Cahn -- Documents : Making the personal political : fighting injustice -- Ladies' day at the Capitol : women strike for peace versus HUAC / Amy Swerdlow -- Documents : Making the personal political : becoming feminist -- Document : Remembering Vietnam -- Abortion, motherhood, and morality / Kristin Luker -- Document : Making the personal political : challenging feminism -- Conclusion. New feminism and the dynamics of social change / Jane Sherron De Hart -- Statistics, statutes, judicial decisions. Documents : Essential statistics -- Essential documents.
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