Description |
608 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Series |
A Touchstone book
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-583) and index. |
Contents |
The planter's wife: the experience of white women in seventeenth-century Maryland / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh -- Vertuous women found: New England ministerial literature, 1668-1735 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Quaker marriage patterns in a colonial perspective / Robert V. Wells -- Eighteenth-century family and social life revealed in Massachusetts divorce records / Nancy F. Cott -- Eighteenth-century American women in peace and war: the case of the Loyalists / Mary Beth Norton -- Passionlessness: an interpretation of Victorian sexual ideology, 1790-1850 / Nancy F. Cott -- The lady and the mill girl: changes in the status of women in the age of Jackson, 1800-1850 / Gerda Lerner -- Beauty, the beast, and the militant woman: a case study in sex roles and social stress in Jacksonian America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- Family limitation, sexual control, and domestic feminism in Victorian America / Daniel Scott Smith -- Women and their families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842-1867 / Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell -- The life cycles and household structure of American ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, and native-born whites in Buffalo, New York, 1855 / Laurence A. Glasco -- Life in the Big House / Eugene D. Genovese -- Marital and sexual norms among slave women / Herbert G. Gutman -- The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- "Where are the organized women workers?" / Alice Kessler-Harris -- A mother's wages: income earning among married Italian and Black women, 1896-1911 / Elizabeth H. Pleck -- Our own kind: family and community networks in Providence / Judith E. Smith -- Female support networks and political activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Birth control and social revolution / Linda Gordon -- Cookbooks and law books: the hidden history of career women in the twentieth-century America / Frank Stricker -- Time spent in housework / Joann Vanek -- Women's work and the economic crisis: some lessons from the Great Depression / Ruth Milkman -- The kindred of Viola Jackson: residence and family organization of an urban Black American family / Carol B. Stack -- Feminism and the contemporary family / Barbara Easton. |
Subject |
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01176947
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Added Author |
Cott, Nancy F.
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Pleck, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Hafkin), 1945-
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ISBN |
067125068X |
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9780671250683 |
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0671250698 (pbk.) |
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9780671250690 (pbk.) |
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