| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 556 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-540) and index. |
| Contents |
The first colonists : voluntary and otherwise -- The women of New England : goodwives, heretics, Indian captives, and witches -- Daily life in the colonies : housekeeping, children, and sex -- Toward the revolutionary war -- 1800-1860 : true women, separate spheres, and many emergencies -- Life before the civil war : cleanliness and corsetry -- African American women : life in bondage -- Women and abolition : white and Black, north and south -- The civil war : nurses, wives, spies, and secret soldiers -- Women go west : pioneers, homesteaders, and the fair but frail -- The gilded age : stunts, shorthand, and study clubs -- Immigrants : discovering the "woman's country" -- Turn of the century : the arrival of the new woman -- Reforming the world : suffrage, temperance, and other causes -- The twenties : all the liberty you can use in the backseat of a Packard -- The Depression : Ma Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt -- World War II : "she's making history, working for victory" -- The fifties : life at the far end of the pendulum -- The sixties : the pendulum swings back with a vengeance. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0060185104 (alk. paper) |
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