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Women's America : refocusing the past / edited by Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa, Jane Sherron De Hart, University of California, Santa Barbara, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, University of Connecticut, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine

Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Edition
Eighth edition.
Physical Description
xx, 794 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Kerber, Linda K.

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Contents
Part I. Early America, 1600-1820 : Gender Frontiers -- Kathleen M. Brown, The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier -- Jennifer L. Morgan, "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder:" European Depictions of Indigenous Women, 1492-1750 -- European Settlers: Gender Puzzles, Gender Rules -- Mary Beth Norton, An Indentured Servant Identifies as "Both Man and Woeman": Jamestown, 1629 -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Three Inventories, Three Households -- Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft -- Ann Little, Captivity and Conversion: Daughters of New England in French Canada -- DOCUMENTS: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 -- European Women and the Law: Examples from Colonial Connecticut -- Hidden Transcripts within Slavery: Judith A. Carney, The African Women Who Preceded Uncle Ben: Black Rice in Carolina -- Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemings-Jefferson Treaty: Paris, 1789 -- DOCUMENTS: Virginia Establishes a Double Standard in Tax Law -- "According to the condition of the mother . . ." -- "For the prevention of that abominable mixture . . ." -- A Massachusetts Minister's Slave Marriage Vows -- Living Through War and Revolution -- DOCUMENTS: Philadelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door -- Sarah Osborn, "The bullets would not cheat the gallows . . ." -- Rachel Wells, "I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney . . ." -- Grace Galloway, Loyalist -- Linda K. Kerber, Why Diamonds Really Are a Girl's Best Friend: The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen --, Part II. America's Many Frontiers, 1820-1880 : Workplace and Household Scenes -- Jeanne Boydston, The Pastoralization of Housework -- Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Mistresses in the Making -- Thavolia Glymph, Women in Slavery: The Gender of Violence -- DOCUMENTS: Eliza R. Hemmingway and Sarah Bagley, Testimony on Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845 -- Maria Perkins writes to her husband on the eve of being sold, 1854 -- Between Nations and On the Borders: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Public Mothers: Creole Mediators in the Northern Borderlands -- Maureen Fitzgerald, Habits of Compassion: Irish American Nuns in New York City -- Intimacy and Disciplining Bodies -- Sharon Block, Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic -- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America -- James C. Mohr, Abortion in America, 1800-1880 -- DOCUMENT: Comstock Act, 1873 -- Reforming Society -- Susan Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship: Debating Women's Anti-slavery Petitions -- Gerda Lerner, The Meaning of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998 -- Rose Stremlau, "I Know What an Indian Woman Can Do": Sarah Winnemucca Writes About Rape on the Northern Paiute Frontier -- DOCUMENTS: The Grimké Sisters, Sarah and Angelina, Talk Truth to Power -- Keziah Kendall protests coverture -- Ellen F. Watkins goes on the lecture circuit - Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 -- Married Women's Property Acts, New York State, 1848 and 1860 -- Sojourner Truth's Visiting Card, 1864 -- Photo Essay: Women in Public -- Civil War and Aftermath -- Stephanie McCurry, Women Numerous and Armed: Politics and Policy on the Confederate Home Front -- Tera W. Hunter, Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom -- DOCUMENTS: A.S. Hitchcock, "Young women particularly flock back & forth . . ." -- Roda Ann Childs, "I was more dead than alive" -- Reconstruction Amendments, 1868, 1870 -- Win Some, Lose Some: Women in Court: Coger v. The North Western Union Packet Company, Supreme Court of Iowa, 1873; Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873; Minor v. Happersett, 1874 -- The Women's Centennial Agenda, 1876 --, Part III: Modern America Emerges, 1880-1920 : Gender and the Jim Crow South -- Glenda Gilmore, Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South -- Kim E. Nielsen, The Southern Identity of Helen Keller -- 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: Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), " . . . this semblance of civilization . . ." -- 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, "We fought and we bled and we died . . ." -- Crystal Eastman, "Now We Can Begin" -- Empire and Internationalism -- Laura Wexler, A Lady Photojournalist Goes to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair -- Leila Rupp, Sexuality and Politics in the Early Twentieth-Century International Women's Movement -- Suffrage and Citizenship -- Ellen Carol Dubois, The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics -- DOCUMENTS: Chinese Exclusion: The Page Act and Its Aftermath -- Mackenzie v. Hare, 1915 -- Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920 --, Part IV: Storms on Many Fronts, 1920-1945 : Sexuality and the Body: Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture -- Vicki L. Ruiz, The Flapper and the Chaperone: Mexican American Teenagers in the Southwest -- Cheryl D. Hicks, Mabel Hampton in Harlem: Regulating Black Women's Sexuality in the 1920s -- Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Reproduction and the Economy in the Great Depression -- DOCUMENT: Margaret Sanger, "I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception . . ." -- Photo Essay: Adorning the Body -- Labor and Activism -- Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South -- Devra Anne Weber, Mexican Women on Strike in 1933: The Structure of Memory -- Gendering the Nation-State -- Nancy F. Cott, Equal Rights and Economic Roles: The Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s -- Alice Kessler-Harris, Designing Women and Old Fools: Writing Gender into Social Security Law -- Blanche Wiesen Cook, Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights at Home and in Europe -- Women and War -- Valerie Matsumoto, Japanese American Women During World War II -- Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II --, and Part V. A Transforming World, 1945-2014 : Cold War Heteronormativity -- Susan K. Cahn, "Mannishness, " Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports -- Joyce Antler, Imagining Jewish Mothers in the 1950s -- Women's Cold War Activism -- Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America -- Michelle M. Nickerson, Politically Desperate Housewives in Southern California -- Danielle L. McGuire, Sexual Violence and the Long Civil Rights Movement -- DOCUMENTS: Betty Friedan, "The problem that has no name" -- Phyllis Schlafly, "The thoughts of one who loves life as a woman . . ." -- Rethinking Family and Sex -- Joanne Meyerowitz, Christine Jorgensen and The Story of How Sex Changed -- Beth L. Bailey, Prescribing the Pill: The Coming of the Sexual Revolution in America's Heartland -- Ji-Yeon Yuh, Korean Military Brides: Cooking American, Eating Korean -- Lisa Levenstein, Hard Choices at 1801 Vine: African American Women, Child Support, and Domestic Violence in Postwar Philadelphia -- DOCUMENTS: Kay Weiss, "With doctors like these for friends, who needs enemies?" -- Roe v. Wade, 1973; Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992; Carhart v. Gonzales, 2007; Recent Developments Rethinking Marriage: Loving v. Virginia, 1967; Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965; Defense of Marriage Act, 1996; Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2003; Recent Developments -- Gender and the Armed Forces -- Margot Canaday, "Finding a Home in the Army: Before 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'" -- Elizabeth L. Hillman, The Female Shape of the All-Volunteer Force -- DOCUMENTS: Goesaert v. Cleary, 1948 -- "We were the first American women sent to live and work in the midst of guerrilla warfare. . . ." -- Feminisms -- Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, The Women's Liberation Movement -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Vietnam War and Global Sisterhood -- DOCUMENTS: The Personal is Political -- Carol Hanisch, A Critique of the Miss America Protest, 1968 -- Jennie V. Chávez, Women of the Mexican American Movement, 1972 -- Editorial Staff of Rodan, Asian Women as Leaders, 1971 -- Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 -- DOCUMENTS: Gender Equality and the Law -- Hoyt v. Florida, 1961; Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975 -- Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964 -- Equal Rights Amendment, 1972 -- Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 -- Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973 -- Susan Eisenberg, An Electrician Among the Hard-Hatted Women -- Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986 -- Violence Against Women Act, 1994, 2000, 2005, 2013 -- Borders Among Us -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domésticas Demand Dignity -- Ashraf Zahedi, Muslim American Women After 9/11 -- DOCUMENTS: Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis, A Chief and Her People -- Hillary Clinton, "Women's Rights Are Human Rights, " 1995 .
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ISBN
9780199349340
0199349347
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical referemnces and index.
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