| Description |
xv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 418-426. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Part I : Introduction -- Women and American history / Mary Beth Norton and Carol Ruth Berkin -- Women's lives transformed : demographic and family patterns in America, 1600-1970 / Robert V. Wells -- Part II : colonial America to 1800 -- The myth of the Golden Age / Mary Beth Norton -- A cherished spirit of independence : the life of an eighteenth century Boston businesswoman / Mary Beth Norton -- The young ladies academy of Philadelphia / Ann D. Gordon -- Equality or submersion? Feme covert status in early Pennsylvania / Marylynn Salmon -- Women of light / Mary Maples Dunn -- Part III : Nineteenth-century America -- The paradox of 'Women's sphere" / Mary Beth Norton -- Private woman, public woman : the contradictions of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Carol Ruth Berkin -- The founding of Mount Holyoke College / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- And we are nothing but women : Irish working women in Troy / Carol Turbin -- Chinese immigrant women in nineteenth-century California / Lucie Cheng Hirata -- Be fruitful and multiply : origins of legal restrictions on planned parenthood in nineteenth-century America / John Paull Harper -- Part IV : Twentieth-century America -- Not separate, not equal / Carol Ruth Berkin -- From aide to organizer : the oral history of Lillian Roberts / Susan Reverby -- The academic prism : the new view of American women / Rosalind Rosenberg -- Woman's place is in the war : propaganda and public opinion in the United States and Germany, 1939-1945 / Leila J. Rupp -- "A truly subversive affair" : women against lynching in the twentieth-century South / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Tomorrow's yesterday : feminist consciousness and the future of women / Sara M. Evans. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Berkin, Carol.
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Norton, Mary Beth.
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| ISBN |
0395270677 |
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