Women and the American Experience

Abstract

1. Mary Rowland's Captivity 2. The Seventeenth Century: A Frontier Society A Necessary Good Housewifery and Trade Servants and Slaves Native American Women Prophets and Saints Invisible Furies Suggested Readings and Sources 3. Eliza Pinckney and Republican Motherhood 4.The Eighteenth Century: The Eve of Modernity Wives and Widows Character and Capacity Legal Institutions Diversity of Cultures The Cradle of the Revolution The Pursuit of Happiness Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons Suggested Readings and Sources 5. Sarah Hale and the Ladies Magazine 6. Promoting Woman's Sphere, 1800-1860 The Home and the World Piety and Purity Academy and Common School Readers and Authors Factory and Mill City and Frontier White Women in the Antebellum South Suggested Readings and Sources 7. The Grimke Sisters Assail Slavery: The 1830s 8. Benevolence, Reform, and Slavery, 1800-1860 Origins of Association Moral Reform Women in Slavery Abolition and the Woman Question Communitarian Alternatives and Legal Rights The Women's Rights Movement Suggested Readings and Sources 9. The Shirtwaist Strike of 1909 10. Women at Work, 1860-1920 Civil War and Women's Work The Black Experience The Trans-Mississippi West Immigrants, Cities, and Working Girls Women in Industry The Union Experience Office, Store, and Classroom Suggested Readings and Sources 11. The Founding of Hull House 12. The Rise of the New Woman, 1860-1920 Shrinking Families The College Woman The Professional Woman Clubwomen and Crusaders Educated Homemakers Social Housekeepers Suggested Readings and Sources 13. The Crisis of the NWSA 14. Feminism and Suffrage An Independent Suffrage Movement Finding a Constituency The Argument over Suffrage Voices on the Left Peace, War, and the Women's Party Women and the Vote Suggested Readings and Sources 15. Direct Action: Margaret Sanger's Crusade 16. Cross-Currents: The 1920s Feminists in Conflict Aspiration and Career Migrants and Immigrants The New Morality "Pals" and "Partners" Companions and Consumers Contraceptive Politics Suggested Readings and Sources 17. Humanizing the New Deal, 1933 18. Emergencies: The 1930s and 1940s Depression Families Working Women Women's New Deal "Front Page Woman" The Impact of World War II Postwar Prospects Suggested Readings and Sources 19. Turning Points: The Early 1960s 20. High Expectations: 1950-1975 Suburban Housewives Working Mothers Mixed Signals Black Women in Postwar America Civil Rights and Women's Liberation Legitimizing Feminism Suggested Readings and Sources 21. The Thomas Hearings: Responses to Anita Hill, 1991 22. In Search of Equality: Since 1975 Feminism and Stalemate Women in the Workplace Families in Transition Immigration, Ethnicity, and Diversity The Gender Gap Women and the Law Suggested Readings and Sources 23. Equal Pay for Equal Work: Lilly Ledbetter, 2007-2009 24. Recent Times: The Twenty-First Century A Multi-Cultural Society Domestic Lives Educational Frontiers The Global Marketplace Politics, Public Policy, and Polarization Looking Forward Suggested Readings and Sources