Full Description
Women and Power in American History provides a coherent group of readings related to the unifying theme of power in women's lives over time. A greater understanding of how power inequalities are organized along gender lines can help us work toward a more egalitarian and just society. Because the work of the women's movement is far from complete, the need for a fuller historical understanding of how women's lives have changed over time remains great.This anthology brings together carefully selected, cutting-edge readings in U.S. Women's History-organized around issues related to gender and power in American society. The twenty-seven individual essays provide students with unifying themes that promote their understanding of women's history and changing gender relations. Both co-authors are highly visible in the field of women's history.
Contents
PrefaceContributorsIntroduction 1. The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier, Kathleen M. Brown2. The Beginnings of the Afro-American Family in Maryland, Allan Kulikoff3. Women and Property across Colonial America, Deborah A. Rosen4. Food Rioters and the American Revolution, Barbara Clark Smith5. Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: "The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us," Thomas Dublin6. The Domestic Balance of Power: Relations between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England, Carol Lasser7. Gender and Slave Labor in Antebellum New Orleans, Virginia Meacham Gould8. Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-slavery Movement: Angelina and Sarah Grimke in 1837, Kathryn Kish Sklar9. Women and Indians on the Frontier, Glenda Riley10. Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, KathrynKish Sklar11. Reproductive Control and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century, Janet Farrell Brodie12. The Exclusion of Chinese Women, 1870-1943, Sucheng Chan13. Separation as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930, Estelle Freedman14. Race and Womanhood: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and African-American Women in North Carolina 1880-1900, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore15. HullHouse in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers, Kathryn Kish Sklar16. "Charity Girls" and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880-1920, Kathy Peiss17. Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn18. The Professionalization of Birth Control, Linda Gordon19. Why Were Most Politically Active Women Opposed to the ERA in the 1920s? Kathryn Kish Sklar20. Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat, Christina Simmons21. Redefining "Women's Work": The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry During World War II, Ruth Milkman22. When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown, Xiaolan Bao23. Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s, Ruth Feldstein24. A New Women's Movement: The Emergence of the National Organization for Women, Cynthia Harrison25. StateBuilding, Health Policy, and the Persistence of the American Abortion Debate, Helene Silverberg26. Buscando La Vida: Mexican Immigrant Women's Memories of Home, Yearning, and Border Crossings, Maria de la LuzIbarra27. Christians for Biblical Equality and the Fight for the Middle Ground, Julie IngersollSelected Links to U.S. Women's History Resource Materials on the Worldwide WebSuggestions for Further Reading
