INTRODUCTION: Gender and the New Women's History
Jane Sherron De Hart and Linda K. Kerber
I. TRADITIONAL AMERICA, 1600-1820
Ann Marie Plane
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Creating a Blended Household: Christian Indian Women and English Domestic Life in Colonial Massachusetts
James F. Brooks
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"This Evil Extends Especially...to the Feminine Sex": Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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The Ways of Her Household
DOCUMENT: The Law of Domestic Relations: Marriage, Divorce, Dower: Examples from Colonial Connecticut
Carol Berkin
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African American Women in Colonial Society
DOCUMENTS: The Law of Slavery
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"For prevention of that abominable mixture..."
Mary Beth Norton
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"Searchers again Assembled": Gender Distinctions in Seventeenth-Century America
DOCUMENT: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637
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"What law have I broken?"
Carol F. Karlsen
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft
Cornelia Hughes Dayton
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Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village
DOCUMENTS: Supporting the Revolution
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Rachel Wells, "I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney..."
Linda K. Kerber
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The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen: Contradictions and Choices in Revolutionary America
II. THE MANY FRONTIERS OF INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA, 1820-1900
DOCUMENTS: The Testimony of Slave Women
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Rose, "Look for some others for to 'plenish de earth'"
Sharon Block
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Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic
Stephanie McCurry
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Women's Work: The Gender Division of Labor in Yeoman Households of South Carolina before the Civil War
Jeanne Boydston
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The Pastoralization of Housework
DOCUMENT: Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845
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"She complained of the hours for labor being too many..."
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
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The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America
James C. Mohr
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Abortion in America
DOCUMENTS: Claiming Rights I
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Keziah Kendall, "What I have suffered, I cannot tell you"
Judith Wellman
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The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention: A Study of Social Networks
DOCUMENTS: Claiming Rights II
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Married Women's Property Acts, New York State, 1848, 1860
Nell Irvin Painter
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Sojourner Truth's Defense of the Rights of Women (as reported in 1851; rewritten in 1863)
Drew Gilpin Faust
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Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery
DOCUMENTS: Counterfeit Freedom
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Roda Ann Childs, "I was more dead than alive"
Tera W. Hunter
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Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom
DOCUMENTS: After the Civil War: Reconsidering the Law
Minor v. Happersett, 1875
Barbara Sicherman
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Reading Little Women:
The Many Lives of a Text
DOCUMENT: The Women's Centennial Agenda, 1876
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, "Guaranteed to us and our daughters forever"
Patricia A. Schechter
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Ida B. Wells and Southern Horrors
Peggy Pascoe
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Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook Indian Wife: Miscegenation Laws and the Privileges of Property
DOCUMENTS: Claiming an Education
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Zitkala-Sä (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), "...this semblance of civilization..."
Glenda Gilmore
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Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South
III. CREATING THE STATE IN AN INDUSTRIALIZED NATION, 1900-1945
Darlene Clark Hine
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Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women
Judy Yung
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Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco's Chinatown
Annalise Orleck
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From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City
Kathryn Kish Sklar
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Florence Kelley and Women's Activism in the Progressive Era
DOCUMENTS: Protecting Women Wage-Workers
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Pauline Newman, "We fought and we bled and we died..."
Linda Gordon
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Orphans and Ethnic Division in Arizona: The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town
Ellen Carol DuBois
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The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics
DOCUMENTS: Dimensions of Citizenship I
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Margaret Sanger, "I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception..."
Nancy F. Cott
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Equal Rights and Economic Roles: The Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
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Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
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The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
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Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South
Leslie J. Reagan
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When Abortion Was a Crime: Reproduction and the Economy in the Great Depression
Jacqueline Jones
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Harder Times: The Great Depression
DOCUMENT: Struggling to Unionize
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Genora Johnson Dollinger, "...Once she understands she is standing in defense of her family-well, God, don't fool around with that woman then"
Alice Kessler-Harris
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Designing Women and Old Fools: Writing Gender into Social Security Law
Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights in Europe
Gerda Lerner
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Life Interrupted: A Young Refugee Arrives in America
Valerie Matsumoto
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Japanese American Women During World War II
Ruth Milkman
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Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II
IV. STRUGGLES AGAINST INJUSTICE, 1945-2000
Daniel Horowitz
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Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America
Gerda Lerner
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Neighborhood Women and Grassroots Human Rights
Estelle Freedman
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Miriam Van Waters and the Burning of Letters
Susan K. Cahn
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"Mannishness," Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports
Amy Swerdlow
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Ladies' Day at the Capitol: Women Strike for Peace versus HUAC
Charles Payne
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A Woman's War: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
DOCUMENTS: Dimensions of Citizenship II
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Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964
Felicia Kornbluh
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A Human Right to Welfare? Social Protest among Women Welfare Recipients after World War II
Beth L. Bailey
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Prescribing the Pill: The Coming of the Sexual Revolution in America's Heartland
Susan J. Douglas
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Why the Shirelles Mattered: Girl Groups on the Cusp of a Feminist Awakening
DOCUMENTS: Making the Personal Political
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Phyllis Schlafly, "The thoughts of one who loves life as a woman..."
Jane Sherron De Hart
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Second-Wave Feminists and the Dynamics of Social Change
DOCUMENTS: Dimensions of Citizenship III
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Roe v. Wade, 1973; Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992
DOCUMENTS: Dimensions of Citizenship IV
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Violence against Women Act, 1994, 2000
Linda Bird Francke
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Women in the Gulf War
DOCUMENTS: The Changing Workplace
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Susan Eisenberg, "Entering construction...was a little like falling in love with someone you weren't supposed to"
Susan Bordo
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"Material Girl": Madonna as Postmodern Heroine
DOCUMENTS: Rethinking Marriage in the Late Twentieth Century
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Loving v. Virginia; Griswold v. Connecticut; Defense of Marriage Act
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
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Sexual Harassment on Trial: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Narrative(s)
Vivyan C. Adair
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Inscriptions of Poverty on the Female Body in the Era of Welfare Reform
Carmen Teresa Whalen
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Sweatshops Here and There: The Garment Industry, Latinas, and Labor Migrations
Jane Sherron De Hart and Carolyn Herbst Lewis
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Thirty Years After Roe: The Continued Assault on a Woman's Right to Choose
Sara Evans
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Women and Global Citizenship
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