Women and power in American history / [edited by] Kathryn Kish Sklar, Thomas Dublin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sklar, Kathryn Kish.

Dublin, Thomas, 1946-

Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--History.

Women.

United States.

History.

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2009]

Summary:

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Contents:

1 The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier / Kathleen M. Brown 11

2 The Beginnings of the Afro-American Family in Maryland / Allan Kulikoff 22

3 Women and Property across Colonial America / Deborah A. Rosen 37

4 Food Rioters and the American Revolution / Barbara Clark Smith 52

5 Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: "The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us" / Thomas Dublin 60

6 The Domestic Balance of Power: Relations Between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England / Carol Lasser 71

7 Gender and Slave Labor in Antebellum New Orleans / Virginia Meacham Gould 82

8 Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-slavery Movement: Angelina and Sarah Grimke in 1837 / Kathryn Kish Sklar 95

9 Women and Indians on the Frontier / Glenda Riley 112

10 Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe / Kathryn Kish Sklar 122

11 Reproductive Control and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century / Janet Farrell Brodie 134

12 The Exclusion of Chinese Women, 1870-1943 / Sucheng Chan 150

13 Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930 / Estelle Freedman 162

14 Race and Womanhood: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and African-American Women in North Carolina, 1880-1900 / Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore 173

15 Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers / Kathryn Kish Sklar 184

16 "Charity Girls" and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880-1920 / Kathy Peiss 196

17 Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn 206

18 The Professionalization of Birth Control / Linda Gordon 216

19 Why Were Most Politically Active Women Opposed to the ERA in the 1920s? / Kathryn Kish Sklar 226

20 Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat / Christina Simmons 232

21 Redefining "Women's Work": The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry During World War II / Ruth Milkman 242

22 When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown / Xiaolan Bao 253

23 Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s / Ruth Feldstein 263

24 A New Women's Movement: The Emergence of the National Organization for Women / Cynthia Harrison 281

25 State Building, Health Policy, and the Persistence of the American Abortion Debate / Helene Silverberg 291

26 Buscando La Vida: Mexican Immigrant Women's Memories of Home, Yearning, and Border Crossings / Maria de la Luz Ibarra 304

27 Christians for Biblical Equality and the Fight for the Middle Ground / Julie Ingersoll 317

Selected Links to U.S. Women's History Resource Materials on the World Wide Web 327.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

ISBN:

9780205645756

0205645755

OCLC:

191927050