FREE SHIPPING BOTH WAYS
ON EVERY ORDER!
LIST PRICE:
$29.95

OUR PRICE:
$7.42

You may extend rentals at any time.


Root of Bitterness : Documents of the Social History of American Women

ISBN: 9781555532567 | 155553256X
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
Pub. Date: 3/28/1996

Why Rent from Knetbooks?

Because Knetbooks knows college students. Our rental program is designed to save you time and money. Whether you need a textbook for a semester, quarter or even a summer session, we have an option for you. Simply select a rental period, enter your information and your book will be on its way!

Top 5 reasons to order all your textbooks from Knetbooks:

  • We have the lowest prices on thousands of popular textbooks
  • Free shipping both ways on ALL orders
  • Most orders ship within 48 hours
  • Need your book longer than expected? Extending your rental is simple
  • Our customer support team is always here to help
SummaryTable of Contents
Presenting a diverse collection of documents, Root of Bitterness reaches from the colonial era through the nineteenth century, focusing on six dominant themes: women's work, the power of gender, the physical body, women's collective efforts, diversity and conflict among women, and women's relation to state authority. This edition contains about twenty selections from the original volume and almost sixty new ones.
A thoroughly revised edition of the classic text in American women's social history.
Acknowledgmentsxi(2)
Introductionxiii
I. COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS AND COMMUNITIES
3(46)
Examination of Anne Hutchinson
... MORE		3(8)
Church Trial and Excommunication of Ann Hibbens
11(6)
Ordinary Dealings at Colonial County Courts
17(7)
Case of Sarah Taylor, Indentured Servant
24(5)
Statutes on Slave Descent
29(3)
Susanna Martin, on Trial for Witchcraft
32(4)
Carolina Women Observed
36(6)
A Rape on the Body of Anne Eastworthy
42(2)
A Law for Regulating Midwives
44(5)
II. TRANSITIONS TO A NEW REPUBLIC
49(64)
Sarah Osborn's Religious Conversion
49(5)
Query to the Philadelphia Baptist Association
54(2)
Sarah Harlan's Will
56(3)
Letter from an Indentured Servant
59(2)
Diary of Mary Cooper
61(6)
Moll Placket-Hole
67(4)
Abigail Adams's Letters from the Home Front
71(6)
An Adolescent's Wartime Diary
77(6)
Learning by Doing Women's Work
83(8)
A Father's Advice to His Daughter
91(7)
Eliza Southgate Reflects on the Sexes
98(5)
Petition on Behalf of Fanny, a Slave Woman
103(2)
Women's Work in the Market Economy
105(8)
III. WOMAN'S SPHERE AND WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENTS
113(64)
Maria Stewart Sees Chains on the Soul
113(5)
Striking Tailoresses Speak
118(5)
Sarah Grimke on the Condition of Women in the United States
123(5)
The Legal Rights and Wrongs of Women
128(4)
The Peculiar Responsibilities, and Difficulties, of American Women
132(6)
"Sweethearts and Wives": A Story from Godey's Lady's Book
138(10)
A Parlor Ballad
148(4)
Margaret McCarthy Writes Home
152(4)
Petition for a Ten-Hour Workday
156(5)
Domestic Management in the Letters of Martha Coffin Wright
161(6)
A New York Woman on a North Carolina Plantation
167(10)
IV. WOMEN AND THE NATIONAL MISSION
177(62)
Cherokee Women Address Their Nation
177(2)
Missionary to Indian Territory
179(6)
Eulalia Perez in Mexican California
185(8)
Reaching Oregon
193(5)
A Moral Reformer Makes Her Rounds
198(6)
An Afternoon Call
204(4)
A Daughter of Temperance Exhorts Her Sex
208(5)
Planting Catholic Schools in North America
213(5)
Since We Came to America
218(6)
Iron Teeth (Mah-i-Ti-Wo-Nee-Ni) Remembers the Cheyenne Removal
224(6)
The Great Indignation Meeting
230(9)
V. SLAVERY, WAR, AND EMANCIPATION
239(54)
James Curry's Mother
239(4)
Virginia Ladies' Petition to Eliminate Slavery
243(3)
An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, by Angelina Grimke
246(6)
Narratives of Escaped Slaves
252(6)
Sarah Parker Remond on American Slavery
258(2)
A Slave Writes to Her Former Mistress
260(2)
Louisa McCord on Enfranchisement of Woman
262(6)
Union Women in Wartime
268(6)
Gertrude Clanton Thomas's Civil War Diary
274(7)
A Freedwoman before the Southern Claims Commission
281(5)
The Race Problem--An Autobiography
286(7)
VI. HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND SEXUALITY
293(54)
On Female Health in America
293(5)
Lucy Thurston's Surgical Operation
298(5)
The Murders of Marriage, by Mary Gove Nichols
303(6)
Testimony as to the Insanity of Elizabeth Packard
309(6)
Abortion in New York
315(6)
A Fox Woman Comes of Age
321(4)
The Working Girls of Boston
325(5)
Sex in Education, by Dr. Edward H. Clarke
330(4)
Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi on Female Invalidism
334(4)
Effeminate Men, Masculine Women
338(3)
The Story of Aunt Easter
341(6)
VII. WOMEN'S WORK IN AN INDUSTRIAL AGE
347(52)
Have Been Busy All Day
347(6)
The Sweating System, Charity, and Organization
353(6)
Speak-out on Domestic Service
359(5)
A Domestic Problem
364(3)
Condition of Women in Rural Alabama
367(5)
Leonora Barry Reports to the Knights of Labor
372(5)
Rescued Chinese Prostitutes Testify at the Industrial Commission
377(7)
Jane Addams on Idle Daughters and Working Mothers
384(7)
Women's Evolution from Economic Dependence
391(8)
VIII. NEW WOMEN, NEW WORLDS
399
Frances Willard Heralds "The Dawn of Woman's Day"
399(7)
Mary Church Terrell Greets the National Congress of Mothers
406(3)
Catholics Debate the Woman Question
409(5)
Mary Lease, Prophet of the Farmers' Alliance
414(6)
To the President, in the Negro's Behalf
420(3)
An Indian Teacher among Indians
423(3)
The Story of a Sweatshop Girl
426(7)
The Typewriter Girl
433(3)
Murray Hall Fooled Many Shrewd Men
436


Please wait while this item is added to your cart...