ABSTRACT
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
INTRODUCTION
part |2 pages
PART I: BREAKING OLD TIES: AMERICAN WOMEN BEFORE 1800
chapter |2 pages
The First American Women
chapter |2 pages
European Women in the New World
chapter |2 pages
Women in the Northern Colonies
chapter |2 pages
Women in the Southern Colonies
chapter |2 pages
Enslaved Women in the Colonies
chapter |2 pages
Women in the Revolutionary Era
chapter |2 pages
Women in the Young Republic
chapter |2 pages
Martha Ballard, Eighteenth-Century Midwife
part |2 pages
PART II: WOMEN'S PLACE IN AN EXPANDING NATION: 1800-1865
chapter |2 pages
White Women Move West
chapter |2 pages
The Uprooting of Native American Women
chapter |2 pages
Urban Women before the Civil War
chapter |2 pages
Working Women of Antebellum America
chapter |2 pages
Black and White Women on the Plantation
chapter |2 pages
Women and Antebellum Reform
chapter |2 pages
Angelina Grimké, Abolitionist
chapter |2 pages
Southern Women during the Civil War
chapter |2 pages
Northern Women during the Civil War
part |2 pages
PART III: SEEKING A VOICE: 1865-1914
chapter |2 pages
Women in the South during Reconstruction
chapter |2 pages
Women of Color Face New Adversity
chapter |2 pages
Settling the Prairies
chapter |2 pages
The Lady of the House
chapter |2 pages
A New Wave of Immigrant Women
chapter |2 pages
Making a Home in the Tenements
chapter |2 pages
Working Women at the Turn of the Century
chapter |2 pages
Women in Factories
chapter |2 pages
Women and the Unions
chapter |2 pages
Sister Carrie in the Industrial City
chapter |2 pages
New Professional Careers for Women
chapter |2 pages
Women and Progressive-Era Reform
chapter |2 pages
Bohemian Women
part |2 pages
PART IV: TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACKWARD: 1914-1965
chapter |2 pages
Winning the Vote
chapter |2 pages
Women in World War I
chapter |2 pages
Women's Politics after Suffrage
chapter |2 pages
Black Women Leaving the South
chapter |2 pages
Women's Work between the Wars
chapter |2 pages
A World of Things to Buy
chapter |2 pages
Selling Beauty
chapter |2 pages
Women during the Depression
chapter |2 pages
Eleanor Roosevelt, Voice of Conscience
chapter |2 pages
World War II: Women in the Military
chapter |2 pages
World War II: Women on the Home Front
chapter |2 pages
The Move to the Suburbs
chapter |2 pages
Confronting the Question of Race
part |2 pages
PART V: REDEFINING WOMEN'S PLACE: 1965 TO THE PRESENT
