Women and the American Experience
ISBN: 9780073385570 | 0073385573
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 10/25/2010
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This comprehensive synthesis of women's history from the 17th century to the present draws on the past three decades of scholarship in the field. The book's unique dual-chapter format pairs a narrative "episode" that vividly evokes a particular individual or event with a synthesis chapter that places each episode carefully within its broader historical context. This pairing of the concrete and specific with the general and historic creates the most compelling reading experience available in a survey of U.S. women's history.
| Mary Rowland's Captivity | |
| The Seventeenth Century: A Frontier Society | |
| A Necessary Good | |
| Housewifery and Trade | |
| Servants and Slaves | |
| Native American Women | |
| Prophets and Saints | |
| Invisible Furies | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| Eliza Pinckney and Republican Motherhood | |
| .The Eighteenth ... MORE | |
| Wives and Widows | |
| Character and Capacity | |
| Legal Institutions | |
| Diversity of Cultures | |
| The Cradle of the Revolution | |
| The Pursuit of Happiness | |
| Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| Sarah Hale and the Ladies Magazine | |
| Promoting Woman's Sphere, 1800-1860 | |
| The Home and the World | |
| Piety and Purity | |
| Academy and Common School | |
| Readers and Authors | |
| Factory and Mill | |
| City and Frontier | |
| White Women in the Antebellum South | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| The Grimke Sisters Assail Slavery: The 1830s | |
| Benevolence, Reform, and Slavery, 1800-1860 | |
| Origins of Association | |
| Moral Reform | |
| Women in Slavery | |
| Abolition and the Woman Question | |
| Communitarian Alternatives and Legal Rights | |
| The Women's Rights Movement | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| The Shirtwaist Strike of 1909 | |
| Women at Work, 1860-1920 | |
| Civil War and Women's Work | |
| The Black Experience | |
| The Trans-Mississippi West | |
| Immigrants, Cities, and Working Girls | |
| Women in Industry | |
| The Union Experience | |
| Office, Store, and Classroom | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| The Founding of Hull House | |
| The Rise of the New Woman, 1860-1920 | |
| Shrinking Families | |
| The College Woman | |
| The Professional Woman | |
| Clubwomen and Crusaders | |
| Educated Homemakers | |
| Social Housekeepers | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| The Crisis of the NWSA | |
| Feminism and Suffrage | |
| An Independent Suffrage Movement | |
| Finding a Constituency | |
| The Argument over Suffrage | |
| Voices on the Left | |
| Peace, War, and the Women's Party | |
| Women and the Vote | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| Direct Action: Margaret Sanger's Crusade | |
| Cross-Currents: The 1920s | |
| Feminists in Conflict | |
| Aspiration and Career | |
| Migrants and Immigrants | |
| The New Morality | |
| "Pals" and "Partners" | |
| Companions and Consumers | |
| Contraceptive Politics | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| Humanizing the New Deal, 1933 | |
| Emergencies: The 1930s and 1940s | |
| Depression Families | |
| Working Women | |
| Women's New Deal | |
| "Front Page Woman" | |
| The Impact of World War II | |
| Postwar Prospects | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| Turning Points: The Early 1960s | |
| High Expectations: 1950-1975 | |
| Suburban Housewives | |
| Working Mothers | |
| Mixed Signals | |
| Black Women in Postwar America | |
| Civil Rights and Women's Liberation | |
| Legitimizing Feminism | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| The Thomas Hearings: Responses to Anita Hill, 1991 | |
| In Search of Equality: Since 1975 | |
| Feminism and Stalemate | |
| Women in the Workplace | |
| Families in Transition | |
| Immigration, Ethnicity, and Diversity | |
| The Gender Gap | |
| Women and the Law | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
| Equal Pay for Equal Work: Lilly Ledbetter, 2007-2009 | |
| Recent Times: The Twenty-First Century | |
| A Multi-Cultural Society | |
| Domestic Lives | |
| Educational Frontiers | |
| The Global Marketplace | |
| Politics, Public Policy, and Polarization | |
| Looking Forward | |
| Suggested Readings and Sources | |
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