Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its sixth edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history. It provides many

new selections from leading theorists and historians and restores several readings that were cut from the fifth edition. Successfully classroom-tested, these new essays offer more material on the impact of ethnicity in American culture, the roles that women have played in the creation of

male-dominated structures, and the international dimensions of women's lives. The book covers such diverse groups as Christian Indian women in colonial America, African-American women in post-Civil War Atlanta, young Jewish labor organizers in turn-of-the-century New York, new arrivals to San

Francisco's Chinatown, Japanese-American women during World War II, and Chicana feminists. The introductory essay has been revised and thebibliography has been updated to take into account the growing body of contemporary literature in the field. Women's America is an essential text for courses in

women's history and an ideal supplement for more general survey courses on American history.

"Balanced yet poignant focus on a past both rich and proud! I will use it!"--Ted Kluz, Auburn University

"Excellent work--covers all major questions and topics in the field. A good blend of primary and secondary sources."--Joseph Karpenski, Golden West College

"My students raved over the content! All regarded the essays as infromative and interesting."--Patricia Ojea, Cedar Crest College

"Well conceived, with great documents included to support the focus piece."--M. Deborah Bialeschki, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Excellent primary and secondary material, good for teaching politics, economics and culture of women in American history."--Rosalyn Baxandall, SUNY at Old Westbury

"Richer and far more poignant than other texts. Better suited to my course which compares European and US women's experience."--Deb Symonds, Drake University

"Wonderful book! We learned a lot from it!"--Helena Czosnyka, St. Louis College of Pharmacy

"A grand collection of essays and resources."--pamela Laird, University of Colorado at Denver

"From the new cover picture of Wasps to the inclusion of women challenging feminism, this Fourth Edition makes a superb teaching instrument even better!"--Norma Mitchell, Troy State University

"Great new edition!"--Debra O'Neal, CalState-Fullerton

With its mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America has long been an invaluable resource. This sixth edition provides extensive coverage of recent events in American women's history, adds several new selections from leading theorists and historians, and restores several readings that were cut from the fifth edition.

The third edition of this widely-acclaimed anthology integrates the best of recent scholarship in women's history with American history as a whole. A new introductory essay explains the ways in which the historical experiences of men and women in the United States have diverged, and traces the way in which gender has been socially constructed. Some seventy-five essays and documents--ranging from a letter written by a slave woman to an analysis of contemporary feminism--guide the reader to an understanding of the interaction of race, class, and gender throughout American history. With its wealth of primary and secondary source material, a revised appendix of essential legal documents, concise headnotes, and clear, chronological organization, the third edition of Women's America shows with new force and vigor why gender has become a powerful analytical device for those seeking to understand the history of the United States.

introduction

I. TRADITIONAL AMERICA 1600-1820

Introduction

The First American Women, Sara Evans

The Ways of Her Household, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Document: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637

Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft, Carol F. Karlsen

Documents: Service and Servitude

"According to the Condition of the mother...."

"that abominable mixture and spurious issue..."

"the deplorable condition your poor Betty endures..."

"Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village", Cornelia Hughes Dayton

Documents: Supporting the Revolution

The Sentiments of an American Woman

"the bullets would not cheat the gallows...", Sarah Osborn

"I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney...., Rachel Wells

The Republican Mother, Linda K. Kerber

IIA.

Introduction

Documents: The Testimony of Slave Women

"I am quite heartsick", Maria Perkins

"Look for some others for to 'plenish de earth'", Rose

The Nature of Female Slavery, Deborah Gray White

The Midwestern Farming Family, 1850, John Mack Faragher

Women, Children, and the Uses of the Streets: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City 1850-1860, Christine Stansell

The Pastoralization of Housework, Jeanne Boydston

Document: "She complained of the hours for labor being too many..."

The Sexual Division of Labor and the Artisan Tradition, Mary H. Blewett

Kathryn Kish Sklar: Catharine Beecher: Transforming the Teaching Profession, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Under the Shadow of Maternity, Judith Walzer Leavitt

Abortion in America, James C. Mohr

Document: Married Women's Property Acts

"What I have suffered, I cannot tell you", Keziah Kendall

The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention: A Study of Social Networks, Judith Wellman

Political Oratory

Sojourner Truth's Defense of the Rights of Women, Reported in 1851, Rewritten in 1863., Nell Irvin Painter

"We would act as well as endure...", Mary C. Vaughan

Documents: Counterfeit Fredom

"Young women particulary flock backandforth...", A. S. Hitchcock

"I was more dead than alive...", Roda Ann Childs

"Guaranteed to us and our daughters forever", Susan B. Anthony

IIB. INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA, 1880-1920

Introduction

Elsa Barkley Brown, Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Lake: Advancing Women, Race, and Community in Turn-of-the-Century Richmond

Documents: Working for Wages

Seven Days a Week: Domestic Work, David M. Katzman

"We fought and we bled and we died", Pauline Newman

Where Are the Organized Women Workers?, Alice Kessler-Harris

Putting on Style: Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York, Kathy Peiss

Documents: Struggling for Educational Opportunities

Zitakala-Sa "...educating the children of the red man!

"... I walked on air for ... I was a _student_ now....", Mary Antin

"The passionate desire of women ... for higher education", M. Carey Thomas

Hispanic Village Women on the Southwest Fontier, Sarah Deutsch

Home Mission Women, Race and Culture: The Case of the "Native Helpers", Peggy Pascoe

Document: Working for Economic and Racial Justice

"... I arrived at Hull House, Chicago.... and discovered the... sweating system.", Florence Kelley

"Nobody ... believes the old threadbare lie", Ida B. Wells

Female Support Networks and Political Activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman, Blanche Wiesen Cook

Woman Suffrage and White Supremacy: A Virginia Case Study, Suzanne Lebsock

Document: Controlling Reproduction

I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception.", Margaret Sanger

Menopause and Its Meaning, Lois Banner

III MODERN AMERICA, 1920-1990

Introduction

Equal Rights and Economic Roles: The Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s, Nancy F. Cott

Eleanor Roosevelt as Reformer, Feminist and Political Boss, Blanche Weisen Cook

Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture, Joan Jacobs Brumberg

The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century, Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Applachian South, Jacquelyn Down Hall

Harder Times: The Great Depression Linda Gordon, Jacqueline Jones

Of the Tenant Child as Mother to the Woman, Margaret Jarman Hagood

Prostitutes on Strike: The Women of Hotel Street During World War II, Beth Bailey and David Farber

Japanese American Women During World War II, Valerie Matsumoto

Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor During World War II, Ruth Milkman

Unwed Mothers, Social Workers, and the Postwar Family: White Neurosis, Black Pathology, Regina G. Kunzel

Mannishness, Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U. S. Women's Sports, Susan K. Cahn

Documents: Making the Personal Political-I

"I had entered law school preoccupied with the racial struggle, but I graduated an unabashed feminist as well.", Pauli Murray

"...the first woman farmworker organizer out in the fields", Jessie Lopez de la Cruz

Ladies' Day at the Capitol: Women Strike for Peace versus HUAC, Amy Swerdlow

Documents: Making the Personal Political-II

"She said I would grow up a wife and a slave, but she taught me the songs of the warrior woman....", Maxine Hong Kinston

"... I see men who consider themselves dedicated revolutionaries, yet exploit their wives and girl friends shamefully without ever noticing a contradiction", Betty Freidan

How to Bandage a War, Laura Palmer

"Abortion, Motherhood and Morality", Kristen Luker

Document: Making the Personal Political--III

"...the thoughts of one who loves life as a woman...", Phyllis Schlafly

"The New Feminism and the Dynamics of SOcial Change", Jane Sherron De Hart