The fourth edition of this widely-acclaimed anthology integrates the best of recent scholarship in women's history with American history as a whole. Now updated to include many more selections on ethnicity, as well as work on the frontier, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Vietnam, prostitution and sex workers, and the problem of eating disorders, Women's America is more timely than ever, providing a comprehensive and insightful analysis of women's American history from colonial times to the present. Over seventy-five essays and documents--ranging from a letter written by a slave woman to an analysis of contemporary feminism--guide the student to an understanding of the interaction of race, ethnicity, class, and gender throughout American history. With its wealth of primary and secondary source material, concise headnotes, and clear, chronological organization, this new edition of Women's America shows with new force and vigor why gender has become a powerful analytical device for understanding the history of the United States.
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