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Women's America: refocusing the past
Oxford University Press, Ninth edition
2020
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Abstract
"This text follows the history of women in the United States from 1600 through the present day."--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Women's America: refocusing the past
- Creators
- Linda K. Kerber (Editor)Jane Sherron De Hart (Editor)Cornelia Hughes Dayton (Editor)Karissa Haugeberg (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book
- Edition
- Ninth edition
- Table of contents
- PART I. EARLY AMERICA, 1600-1800 : Gender Frontiers Kathleen M. Brown / The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier Jennifer L. Morgan / "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies In Brief: Childbirth Practices among North American Indigenous Women (by Ann Marie Plane) Gender and Labor : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich / Three Inventories, Three Households Mary Beth Norton / An Indentured Servant Identifies as "Both Man and Woeman": Jamestown, 1629 Judith A. Carney / Toiling in the Carolina Rice Fields ; Founding Documents: Black and White Women Defined in Law : Virginia Establishes a Double Standard in Tax Law Virginia's 1662 Law Defining Race-Based Enslavement A Massachusetts Minister's Slave Marriage Vows English Jurist William Blackstone Defines Coverture Mary Collin's Probate Inventory An Early Divorce Law and Sarah Welsher's Petition ; Disorderly Women : Carol F. Karlsen / Inheriting Women and Witchcraft Accusations Document: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 In brief: Two Eighteenth-Century Lives : Esther Wheelwright Becomes an Ursuline Nun (by Ann M. Little) Abigail Stoneman, Entrepreneur (by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor) ; Revolutionary Legacies : Documents: Philadelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door Sarah Osborn / Woman of the Army Deborah Sampson Gannett / Soldier Grace Growden Galloway / Loyalist Rachel Wells / "I have Don as much to Carrey on the War as maney . . ." Linda K. Kerber / Republican Mothers and Women Citizens Annette Gordon-Reed / The Hemings-Jefferson Treaty: Paris, 1789 PART II. MANY FRONTIERS, 1800-1880 : Workplaces : Jeanne Boydston / The Pastoralization of Housework Sharon Block / Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic Document: Eliza R. Hemmingway and Sarah Bagley Testify on Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845 Slaveowning Households : Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers / Mistresses in the Making Thavolia Glymph / Women in Slavery: The Gender of Violence Document: Maria Perkins, Writes to Her Husband on the Eve of Being Sold, 1852 Intimacy, Birth Control, and Abortion: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg / The Female World of Love and Ritual James C. Mohr / The Abortion Landscape, 1800-1880 ; Activists and Reform: Gerda Lerner / The Meanings of Seneca Falls Rose Stremlau / "I Know What an Indian Woman Can Do": Sarah Winnemucca Writes about the Northern Paiute Frontier ; Documents: The Grimké Sisters Talk Truth to Power Keziah Kendall Protests Coverture Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Married Women's Property Acts, New York State, 1848 and 1860 Sojourner Truth's Visiting Card, 1864 ; Nineteenth-Century Frontiers: Miroslava Chávez-García / The Murder Trial of Guadeloupe Trujillo: Los Angeles, 1843 ; In Brief: Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and College Professor (by Helen Knight et al.) ; Photo Essay: Women in Public ; Civil War and Its Aftermaths: Stephanie McCurry / Women Numerous and Armed: Politics and Policy on the Confederate Home Front Leslie A. Schwalm / Enslaved Mothers: Claiming Freedom and Risking Death Tera W. Hunter / Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom ; Documents: A. S. Hitchcock, I Would Treat Them as Vagabonds Reconstruction Amendments, 1865, 1868, 1870 Supreme Court Test Cases: Bradwell v. Illinois and Minor v. Happersett ; PART III. MODERN AMERICA EMERGES, 1880-1945: Gender and the Jim Crow South: Glenda Gilmore Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South ; Documents: Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors (with an introduction by Patricia A. Schechter) Mary McLeod Bethune, "How the Bethune-Cookman College Campus Started" ; Women in the West: Peggy Pascoe / Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook of Oregon, Challenges Miscegenation Laws Judy Yung / Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco's Chinatown ; Document: Zitkála-Sá / The Americanization of Native American Children ; Change Agents: Kathryn Kish Sklar / Florence Kelley and Women's Activism in the Progressive Era Annelise Orleck / From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City ; Documents: Pauline Newman / Life in the Garment District Crystal Eastman / Now We Can Begin ; Suffrage and Citizenship: Leila J. Rupp / Sexuality and Politics in the Early Twentieth-Century International Women's Movement ; Documents: Chinese Exclusion: The Page Act and Its Aftermath Mackenzie v. Hare, 1915 Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920 ; Jazz Age Opportunities and Limits: Vicki L. Ruiz / The Flapper and the Chaperone: Mexican American Teenagers in the Southwest Joan Jacobs Brumberg / Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness Linda Gordon / Women and the KKK in the 1920s ; Document: Equal Rights Amendment, 1921, 1923 ; Photo Essay: Adorning the Body ; Great Depression: Leslie J. Reagan, / When Abortion Was a Crime Blanche Wiesen Cook / Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights ; Documents: Comstock Act Emma Goldman's Mug Shot, 1901 Margaret Sanger / Contraception for all Women Pauli Murray / The Making of Jane Crow ; Women and War: Beth Bailey and David Farber / The Women of Hotel Street during World War II Alice Kessler-Harris / Rethinking Women's Work during World War II ; Document: The Forced Removal of Japanese Americans ; PART IV. A TRANSFORMING WORLD, 1945-2018: Women's Cold War Activism: Daniel Horowitz / Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America Michelle M. Nickerson / Politically Desperate Housewives ; Documents: Betty Friedan / "The Problem That Has No Name" Phyllis Schlafly / Difference, Not Equality ; Sexuality at Midcentury: Susan K. Cahn / Lesbians and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports Joanne Meyerowitz / Christine Jorgensen and the Story of How Sex Changed ; Women and Movements against Injustice: Danielle L. McGuire / Sexual Violence and the Long Civil Rights Movement ; In Brief: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Making of a Feminist Advocate (by Jane Sherron DeHart) ; Documents: Hoyt v. Florida, 1961, and Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975 Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964 Loving v. Virginia, 1967 ; Reinvigorated Feminisms: Heather M. Stur / "We Weren't Called Soldiers": WACs and Nurses in Vietnam Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon / The Women's Liberation Movement ; Documents: Poster, "Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No" Equal Rights Amendment, 1972 Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973 Carol Sanger / "The Law from Roe Forward" ; In Brief: Women's Experience with Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade (by Karissa Haugeberg) ; Claims for Dignity: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo / Domésticas Demand Dignity Ashraf Zahedi / Muslim American Women after 9/11 ; In Brief: How History Matters in Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015 (by Nancy F. Cott) ; Documents; Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986 Anita Hill's Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1991 Violence Against Women Act, 1994 Women's March, 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- ISBN
- 9780190945756; 0190945753; 9780190945770; 019094577X
- Format
- xxx, 625 pages, IN-29 : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Number of pages
- xxx, 625 pages, IN-29
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2020
- Academic Unit
- History; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984702842602771
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