Includes bibliographical references (p. 126) and index.
Contents
1600s. Women's work -- Women's place -- Native American women -- Anne Forrest & Anne Buras -- Pocahontas -- Anne Bradstreet -- Margaret Hardenbrook Philipse -- Millicent How & other indentured servants -- Isabella -- Margaret Brent -- Susanna Martin & other witches.
1700s. Women's work -- Women's place -- Eliza Pinckney -- Elizabeth Murray -- Elizabeth Sprigs & other indentured servants -- Hannah & other slaves -- Phillis Wheatley -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Revolutionary women -- Deborah Sampson & other soldiers -- Martha Ballard.
1800s. Women's work -- Women's place -- Hannah Borden & other mill girls -- Sarah Bryan & other pioneers -- Emma Willard -- Maria Mitchell -- Harriet Tubman -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Mary Ann Shadd Cary -- Women of the Civil War -- Women on the home front -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Belva Lockwood -- Sarah Winnemucca -- Matilda Coxe Stevenson.
1900s. Women's work -- Women's place -- Mary Hamilton -- Rose Schneiderman -- Maria Martinez -- Amelia Earhart -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Women in World War II -- Barbara McClintock -- Rosa Parks & Jo Ann Robinson -- Rachel Carson -- Dolores Huerta -- Betty Friedan -- Toni Morrison -- Sandra Day O'Conner -- Maya Lin -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Superwomen.
Summary
A history of women in the United States from the seventeenth century to modern times, discussing the roles they have played in society and historical events and focusing on individuals from Pocahontas to Sandra Day O'Connor.
