| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xii, 588 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Gender and the New Women's History / Jane Sherron De Hart, Linda K. Kerber -- Traditional America, 1600-1820 -- Creating a Blended Household: Christian Indian Women and English Domestic Life in Colonial Massachusetts / Ann Marie Plane -- "This Evil Extends Especially ... to the Feminine Sex": Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands / James F. Brooks -- The Ways of Her Household / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Documents: The Law of Domestic Relations: Marriage, Divorce, Dower -- Examples from Colonial Connecticut -- African American Women in Colonial Society / Carol Berkin -- Documents: The Law of Slavery -- "According to the condition of the mother ..." -- "For prevention of that abominable mixture ..." -- "Searchers again Assembled": Gender Distinctions in Seventeenth-Century America / Mary Beth Norton -- Document: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 -- "What law have I broken?" -- The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft / Carol F. Karlsen -- Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village / Cornelia Hughes Dayton -- Documents: Supporting the Revolution -- "The ladies going about for money exceeded everything ..." -- Sarah Osborn, "The bullets would not cheat the gallows ..." -- Rachel Wells, "I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney ..." -- The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen: Contradictions and Choices in Revolutionary America / Linda K. Kerber -- The Many Frontiers of Industrializing America, 1820-1900. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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| Indexed Term |
Women Social conditions History |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Kerber, Linda K.
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De Hart, Jane Sherron.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Women's America. 3rd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 (OCoLC)654751847 |
| ISBN |
0195062612 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195062618 (acid-free paper) |
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0195062620 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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9780195062625 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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