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More copies of this ISBN:Women and the Making of America, Combined (09 Edition)by Mari Jo Buhle
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Take a tour on the web at http://www.researchnavigator.com. Synopsis:A chronological survey of the role and experience of women in American history, Women and the Making of America examines the issue of power in women's lives and women's history. Examining relationships between men and women as well as the diverse experiences of different women, the book explores how women were central to the making of America's history. About the AuthorMari Jo Buhle Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor and Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University, specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana—Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870—1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left, second edition (1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (1991—1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Teresa Murphy Teresa Murphy is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. Born and raised in California, she received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD from Yale University. She is the author of Ten Hours Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England (1992) and is currently completing a study about the origins of women’s history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is the former Associate Editor of American Quarterly.
Jane F. Gerhard Jane F. Gerhard is a visiting assistant professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, specializing in American women’s history and the history of sexuality in America. She received her B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. from Brown University. She is the author of Desiring Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 (2001).
Table of ContentsChapter 1 WORLDS APART, to 1700
WOMEN IN THE AMERICAS Hunting and Gathering Cultural Differences Marriage, Family, and Gender Identities Exercising Power EUROPEAN WOMEN Flexible Labor Force Patriarchal Societies Challenges to Patriarchy AFRICAN WOMEN BEFORE NEW WORLD CONTACT Work and Power Family Economies Dependence and Freedom: Slavery in Africa THE GENDERED DYNAMICS OF CONTACT Discovering New Worlds Sexuality and Claims of Civilization Gender and the Emergence of the Slave Trade
Chapter 2 CONTACT AND CONQUEST, 1500-1700
SPANISH CONQUEST IN THE SOUTHWEST Immigration and Work Captivity and Kinship Religion and Conquest Witchcraft, Resistance, and Revolt TRADING VENTURES IN THE NORTH The Fur Trade Catholicism and Conversion Marriage, Sex, and Survival in the Middle Ground New Netherland Trade PLANTATION SOCIETIES OF THE SOUTHEAST The Tobacco Economy Wealthy Widows and Serving Wenches Slavery, Race, and Intermarriage Anxious Patriarchs GODLY SOCIETIES OF NEW ENGLAND Goodwives Family Government Female Piety Witchcraft and Danger
Chapter 3 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY REVOLUTIONS
THE MARKET REVOLUTION Cities of Women A New World of Goods Issues of Inequality Slavery in a Market Economy FAMILY RELATIONS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Passions and Patriarchal Authority Disorderly Women: The Challenge of the Great Awakening Female Companions: The Gendered Enlightenment DECLARING INDEPENDENCE Daughters of Liberty Loyalist Wives Fighting the War Seize the Day: Indian and Slave Women of the Revolution Female Citizens A VIRTUOUS REPUBLIC Republican Mothers and Virtuous Wives Educated Women A Limited Revolution
Chapter 4 FRONTIERS OF TRADE AND EMPIRE
INDIAN COUNTRY Multiple Meanings of Captivity Seneca Households: “A Perfect Equality” Shawnee Society and the Incorporation of Strangers Inheritance and Power among the Cherokee SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN LOUISIANA The Traffic in Women New Orleans and Urban Slavery Gens de Couleur Libre WESTERN FRONTIERS Texas: The Challenges of Settlement New Mexico Women and Trading Networks California Missions The Overland Trails Chapter 5 DOMESTIC ECONOMIES AND NORTHERN LIVES
INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATIONS Factory Families Independent Mill Girls Family Wage EconomyTOWN AND COUNTRY Seamstresses, Servants, and Shop Girls Sex for Sale Butter and Eggs
PRIVATE LIVES: DEFINING THE MIDDLE CLASS Hidden Economy of Housework Cult of Domesticity Courtship and Marriage Sexual Boundaries Controlling Family SizeMULTIPLE IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE FEMALE EXPERIENCE African American Independence Irish Domesticity German Guardians of TraditionTHE CULTURE OF SENTIMENT Women on Stage Scribbling Women Earnest Readers Chapter 6 FAMILY BUSINESS: SLAVERY AND PATRIARCHY
ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY Strong as Any Man: Slave Women’s Work Status and Special Skills Family Life Sexual Demands of Slavery Violence and Resistance PLANTATION HOUSEHOLDS Keeper of the Keys Defense of Patriarchy Family Networks Breaking Ties STRUGGLES FOR INDEPENDENCE By the Sweat of their Brow: White Yeoman Households Freedom in the Midst of Slavery: The Free African American Community Living with the Law REPRESENTING THE SOUTH Constructing Virtue: Slave Women Plantation Novels Fighting for the South
Chapter 7 RELIGION AND REFORM
REVIVALS AND RELIGIOUS VIRTUE Gendered Revivals in the North Evangelical Commitment in the South Mothers and Missionaries Preaching the Word RELIGION AND FAMILY AUTHORITY Quakers, Spiritualists, and Female Autonomy Reform Judaism and Gender Hierarchies Power and Danger in Catholic Convents CONTROLLING THE BODY, PERFECTING THE SOUL Celibacy of Shakers Bible Communism: Complex Marriage in the Oneida Community Moral Reform Societies: Combating the Sex Trade Bodily Purification and the Dangers of Drink Curbing Domestic Violence CONTESTING THE NATION: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REFORMS Working Women and Labor Protests Protesting Indian Removal Race, Hierarchy, and the Critique of Slavery Politics and Gender in the Antislavery Movement
Chapter 8 POLITICS AND POWER: THE MOVEMENT FOR WOMAN’S RIGHTS
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY Communitarian Experiments in Family and Property Family Assets: Married Women’s Property Laws Work and Wages CHALLENGING THE DOCTRINE OF SEPARATE SPHERES Promoting Female Seminaries Confronting Educational Barriers Demands for Divorce WOMAN’S INFLUENCE VS. WOMAN’S RIGHTS The Beecher-Grimke Debate Political Participation From Moral Suasion to Political Action FORGING A MOVEMENT Seneca Falls and Other Conventions The Female Citizen Aren’t I a Woman? Reaching Out Marriage and Divorce
Chapter 9 THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865
THE NORTHERN HOME FRONT Woman’s National Loyal League Bonnet Brigades United States Sanitary Commission Freedmen’s Aid Societies Wartime Employments ON THE BATTLE FIELDS Army Nurses Soldiers Spies PLANTATION SOCIETY IN TURMOIL Unflinching Loyalty to the Cause Plantations without Patriarchs Campfollowers and Contrabands A WOMAN’S WAR A Moral Crusade against Slavery Hospital Sketches Memoirs and Memories
Chapter 10 IN THE AGE OF SLAVE EMANCIPATION, 1865 - 1877
RECONSTRUCTING SOUTHERN HOUSEHOLDS The Meaning of Freedom Negotiating Free Labor White Women on the Old Plantation “Freedom Was Free-er” in Towns and Cities WOMAN’S RIGHTS RE-EMERGES “The Negro’s Hour” Organizing for Suffrage The Notorious Victoria Woodhull The New Departure WOMAN’S RIGHT TO LABOR Women’s Clubs Associations for Working Women Trade Unions WOMAN’S CRUSADE “Baptism of Power and Liberty” Frances Willard Home Protection
Chapter 11 THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1860-1900
ON THE RANGE AND IN MINING COMMUNITIES Home on the Range The Sporting Life Domesticity on the Mining Frontier MORMON SETTLEMENTS The Doctrine of Plural Marriage “The Mormon Question” The Woman’s Vote in Utah SPANISH-SPEAKING WOMEN OF THE SOUTHWEST Landowning Elite Communal Villagers Urban Householders BUILDING COMMUNITIES IN THE HEARTLAND Homestead Act and Immigration Woman’s Work, Never Done Turning Wilderness into “Civilization” The Patrons of Husbandry INDIAN WOMEN, CONQUEST AND SURVIVAL Nez Perce Plains Indians Southern Ute
Chapter 12 NEW WOMEN
NEW INDUSTRIES, NEW JOBS Manufacturing Retail Sales and Office Work Domestic Service NEW IMMIGRANTS Italians Jews Chinese THE NEW SOUTH Tenant Farming and Sharecropping Domestic Service Textiles and Mill Villages NEW PROFESSIONS Education Medicine Ministry Visual Art THE NEW WOMAN AT HOME Smaller Families, Better Babies Woman’s Sphere Transformed From Production to Consumption
Chapter 13 THE WOMAN MOVEMENT, 1880-1900
CROSS-CLASS ALLIANCES Young Women’s Christian Association Christian Homes for African American Working Women Women’s Educational and Industrial Union Illinois Woman’s Alliance SPANNING THE NATION National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union National American Woman Suffrage Association General Federation of Women’s Clubs National Association of Colored Women CAMPAIGNS OF THE 1890S Populism Woman Suffrage in the West Antilynching Crusade Spanish American War WOMAN’S EMPIRE Women’s Foreign Mission Movement World WCTU Outposts of the YWCA
Chapter 14 THE NEW MORALITY, 1880-1920
URBAN PLEASURES, URBAN DANGERS “Women Adrift” Cheap Amusements “Charity Girls” CHANGING RELATIONS OF INTIMACY Courtship and Marriage Divorce Female Friends and Women Lovers CURBING “SOCIAL EVILS” Social Purity Campaign Crusading Against Prostitution Legislating Against “Miscegenation” WOMEN’S BODIES and REPRODUCTION Designed for Motherhood Controlling Reproduction The Birth Control Campaign REBELS IN BOHEMIA Living the New Morality Heterodoxy and Feminism Art and Politics
Chapter 15 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1890-1920
“MUNICIPAL HOUSEKEEPING” Jane Addams and Hull-House The Settlement Movement: A Community of Women “A Power for Good”: Neighborhood Activism THE ERA OF WOMEN’S STRIKES Women’s Trade Union League Uprisings in the Garment Industry “Bread and Roses”: The Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912 Protective Labor Legislation “MOTHER-WORK” Juvenile Courts Mothers’ Pensions The Children’s Bureau WORLD WAR I Wartime Employment The Peace Movement In National Defense Keeping Men Fit to Fight VOTES FOR WOMEN Out of the Doldrums Southern Strategy Winning Campaign Nineteenth Amendment, 1920 Chapter 16 THE JAZZ AGE 1920-1930
“REVOLUTION IN MORALS AND MANNERS’ Courtship in Transition Companionate Marriage Invention of the Lesbian Threat
WOMEN AND WORK Married women workers Pink-Collar Workers Domestic Servants Professional Workers BEYOND SUFFRAGE Feminist--New Style The League of Women Voters The Equal Rights Amendment The Sheppard-Towner Act WOMEN’S ACTIVISM ”Race Women” and Pan Africanism Anti-Lynching Crusade Klu Klux Klan THE CULTURE OF MODERNITY Dance Crazes Harlem Renaissance Singing the Blues Chapter 17 The Great Depression, 1930-1940
Facing the Depression Economics of running a house Postponing marriage and children Gender and the politics of providing Activism Appalachian Women in the Textile Industry Chinese Women in San Francisco’s Garment Industry Latinas and the California Canning Industry The New Deal Eleanor Roosevelt and the Women’s Network Women in the New Deal Gender in the Welfare State Cultures of the Thirties Representing Gender in New Deal Public Art Documenting the Depression Regulating Hollywood
Chapter 18 WORLD WAR II HOME FRONTS, 1940-1945
Women at Work on the Home Front Working for Victory For the Duration Ongoing Discrimination Gender and Wartime Popular Culture Advertising the War Hollywood’s War Wartime Fashion All-Girl Players Wartime Domesticity Feeding a Family Housing Shortages Homemaking in the Internment Camps Parenting during the Crisis Creating a Woman’s Army The Women’s Army Gender Anxieties in WAC Women’s Air Force Service Pilots Prejudice in the Women’s Army Demobilization Chapter 19 The Feminine Mystique, 1945-1965
Beyond DomesTIcity Rosie Does Not Go Home Working Mothers Challenging Segregation at Work COLD WAR MOTHERING Bringing Up Baby Momism The Black Mother and Racism REMAKING THE AMERICAN HOME The Suburb Chinatown The Barrio THE HETEROSEXUAL IMPERATIVE Beauty Icons Sexual Brinkmanship Beats and Bohemians Writing Womanhood SEXUAL DANGERS Back Ally Abortions The Homosexual Menace Lesbian Subcultures
Chapter 20 Civil Rights and Liberal ACTIVISM, 1945-1975
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Challenging Segregation Freedom Struggles Coming of Age in Mississippi A MOVEMENT TAKES SHAPE Labor Activism The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women Building a Movement National Welfare Rights Organization AGENDA FOR REFORM Legislating Equality Education and Athletics Reproductive Freedom The Media and the Movement
Chapter 21 the personal is political, 1960-1980
SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS Liberation for All Obscenity Redefined Gay Liberation WOMEN’S LIBERATION Women of the New Left Black Feminism “We Called Ourselves Feministas” The Woman Warrior PERSONAL POLITICS Rethinking Heterosexuality Lesbian Feminism The Feminist Art Movement The Women’s Health Movement Abortion FAMILY LIFE, ONE DAY AT A TIME Women at Work The Second Shift Marriage and Divorce The Feminization of Poverty
Chapter 22 ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS, 1980 to 2008
THE NEW RIGHT STOP ERA The Pro-Family Movement Moral Panics and Culture Wars The Anti-Abortion Movement WORK AND FAMILY IN THE 1990S Work and Welfare Gender Gaps Caring for the Elderly GLOBAL AMERICA New Faces, New Families The Gulf Wars Terrorism at Home and Abroad Global Feminism Third Wave
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