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Through Women's Eyes, Volume 2: Since 1865: An American History with Documents
ISBN: 9780312468897 | 031246889X
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 9/10/2008
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Now available in two-volume splits as well as the combined version. Through Women's Eyes: An American Historywas the first textbook in U.S. women's history to bring together an inclusive narrative within the context of the central developments of U.S. history and to integrate written and visual primary sources into each chapter. The result, according to authors Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, was to "reveal the relationship between secondary and original sources, to show history as a dynamic process of investigation and interpretation rath... MORE
Chapter 6. Reconstructing Women’s Lives North and South, 1865-1900
Gender and the Postwar Constitutional Amendments
Women’s Lives in Southern Reconstruction and Redemption
Female Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism
Women of the Leisured Classes
Conclusion: Toward a New Womanhood
Documents: Ida B. Wells, "Race Woman"
Documents: The Woman Who Toi... MORE
Visual Sources: The Higher Education of Women in the Postbellum Years
Visual Sources: Alice Austen: Gilded Age Photographer
Chapter 7. Women in an Expanding Nation: Consolidation of the West, Mass Immigration, and the Crisis of the 1890s
Consolidating the West
Late Nineteenth-Century Immigration
Century’s End: Challenges, Conflict, and Imperial Ventures
Conclusion: Nationhood and Womanhood on the Eve of a New Century
Documents: Zitkala-Ša: Indian Girlhood and Education
Documents: Jane Addams and the Charitable Relation
Visual Sources: Jacob Riis’s Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Working Women
Visual Sources: Women in the Cartoons of Puck Magazine
Chapter 8. Power and Politics: Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
The Female Labor Force
The Female Dominion
Votes For Women
The Emergence of Feminism
The Great War, 1914-1919
Conclusion: New Conditions, New Challenges
Visual Sources: Parades, Picketing and Power
Visual Sources: Uncle Sam Wants You: Women and World War I Posters
Documents: Modernizing Womanhood
Documents: African American Women and the Great Migration
Chapter 9. Change and Continuity: Women in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1920-1945
Prosperity Decade: The 1920s
Depression Decade: The 1930s
Working for Victory: Women and War, 1941-1945
Conclusion: The New Woman in Ideal and Reality
Documents: Young Women Speak Out
Documents: Women in New Deal Networks
Visual Sources: Women at Work
Chapter 10. Beyond the Feminine Mystique: Women’s Lives, 1945-1965
Family Culture and Gender Roles
Women’s Activism in Conservative Times
A Mass Movement for Civil Rights
Women and Public Policy
Conclusion: The Limits of the Feminine Mystique
Visual Sources: Television’s Prescriptions for Women
Documents: "Is a Working Mother a Threat to the Home?"
Documents: Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 11. Modern Feminism and American Society, 1965 to 1977
Roots of Sixties Feminism
Women’s Liberation and the Sixties Revolutions
Ideas and Practices of Women’s Liberation
Diversity, Race, and Feminism
The Impact of Feminism
Changing Public Policy and Public Consciousness
Conclusion: Feminism’s Legacy
Visual Sources: Feminism and the Drive for Equality in the Workplace
Documents: Women’s Liberation
Feminism and the New Right in American Politics
Women and Politics
Women’s Lives in Modern America and the World
Conclusion: Women Face a New Century
Documents: Feminist Revival in the 1990s
Visual Sources: American Women in the World
ELLEN CAROL DUBOIS is Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. DuBois is the author of Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1969; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Women’s Suffrage (winner of the 1998 Joan Kelly Price Award from the American Historical Association); and Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights.
LYNN DUMENIL is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. Dumenil has written The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880-1930, and she is co-author with James Henretta and David Brody of America’s History.
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