| Description |
viii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Gender & American culture |
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Gender & American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-441) and index. |
| Contents |
State information. -- A constitutional right to be treated like American ladies: women and the obligations of citizenship / Linda K. Kerber -- Two political cultures in the Progressive Era: the National Consumers' League and the American Association for Labor Legislation / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Putting children first: women, maternalism, and welfare in the early twentieth century / |
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Linda Gordon -- Designing women and old fools: the construction of the Social Security amendments of 1939 / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Giving character to our whole civil polity: marriage and the public order in late nineteenth century / Nancy F. Cott -- Power. -- Soul murder and slavery: toward a fully loaded cost accounting / Nell Irvin Painter -- Gender expectations: women and early |
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twentieth-century public health / Judith Walzer Leavitt -- Separatism revisited: women's institutions, social reform, and the career of Miriam Van Waters / Estelle B. Freedman -- The personal and the political: two case studies / William H. Chafe -- Rights and representation: women, politics, and power in the contemporary United States / Jane Sherron De Hart -- Reading Little Women: |
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the many lives of a text / Barbara Sicherman -- Between culture and politics: the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs and the promulgation of women's history, 1944-1989 / Joyce Antler -- The congress of American women: Left-Feminist peace politics in the Cold War / Amy Swerdlow -- The female generation gap: daughters of the fifties and the origins of contemporary American |
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feminism / Ruth Rosen -- The making of Black Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia / Darlene Clark Hine -- Bibliography of the writings of Gerda Lerner / compiled by Thomas Dublin. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Kerber, Linda K.
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Kessler-Harris, Alice.
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Sklar, Kathryn Kish.
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| Added Title |
US history as women's history |
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United States history as women's history |
| ISBN |
0807821853 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807844950 paperback alkaline paper |
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