Table of Contents
In This Section: I) Brief Table of Contents
II) Detailed Table of Contents
I) Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Worlds Apart, to 1700
Chapter 2. Contact and Conquest, 1500-1700
Chapter 3. Eighteenth-Century Revolutions, 1700 — 1800
Chapter 4. Frontiers Of Trade And Empire, 1750 — 1860
Chapter 5. Domestic Economies And Northern Lives, 1800 — 1860
Chapter 6. Family Business: Slavery And Patriarchy, 1800 — 1860
Chapter 7. Religion And Reform, 1800 — 1860
Chapter 8. Politics And Power: The Movement For Woman’s Rights, 1800 —
Chapter 9. The Civil War, 1861 — 1865
Chapter 10. In The Age Of Slave Emancipation, 1865-1877
Chapter 11. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860 — 1900
Chapter 12. New Women, 1857 — 1915
Chapter 13. The Woman Movement, 1860 - 1900
Chapter 14. The New Morality, 1880 — 1920
Chapter 15. The Progressive Era, 1890 — 1920
Chapter 16. The Jazz Age, 1920 — 1930
Chapter 17. The Great Depression, 1930 — 1940
Chapter 18. World War Ii Home Fronts, 1940 — 1945
Chapter 19. The Feminine Mystique, 1945 — 1965
Chapter 20. Civil Rights And Liberal Activism, 1945 — 1975
Chapter 21. The Personal Is Political, 1960 — 1980
Chapter 22. Endings And Beginnngs, 1980 — 2011
II) Detailed Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Worlds Apart, to 1700
Women in The Americas
European Women
African Women
The Gendered Dynamics of Contact
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Contact and Conquest, 1500-1700
Spanish Conquest in the Southwest
Trading Ventures in the North
Plantation Societies of the Southeast
Godly Societies of New England
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Eighteenth-Century Revolutions, 1700 — 1800
The Market Revolution
Family Relations and Social Responsibilities
Declaring Independence
A Virtuous Republic
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Frontiers Of Trade And Empire, 1750 — 1860
Indian Country
Slavery and Freedom in Louisiana
Western Frontiers
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Domestic Economies And Northern Lives, 1800 — 1860
Industrial Transformations
Town and Country
Private Lives: Defining the Middle Class
Multiple Identities: Race, Ethnicity, and the Female Experience
The Culture of Sentiment
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Family Business: Slavery And Patriarchy, 1800 — 1860
Antebellum Slavery
Plantation Households
Struggles for Independence
Representing the South
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Religion And Reform, 1800 — 1860
Revivals and Religious Virtue
Religion and Family Authority
Controlling the Body, Perfecting the Soul
Contesting the Nation: Social and Political Reforms
Conclusion
Chapter 8. Politics And Power: The Movement For Woman’s Rights, 1800 — 1860
Life, Liberty, and Property
Women’s Influence versus Woman’s Rights
Forging a Movement
Conclusion
Chapter 9. The Civil War, 1861 — 1865
The Northern Home Front
On the Battlefields
Plantation Society in Turmoil
A Woman’s War
Conclusion
Chapter 10. In The Age Of Slave Emancipation, 1865-1877
Reconstructing Southern Households
Woman’s Rights Reemerge
Woman’s Right to Labor
The Woman’s Crusade
Conclusion
Chapter 11. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860 — 1900
On the Range and in Mining Communities
Mormon Settlements
Spanish-Speaking Women of the Southwest
Building Communities in the Heartland
Indian Women, Conquest, and Survival
Conclusion
Chapter 12. New Women, 1857 — 1915
New Industries, New Jobs
New Immigrants
The New South
New Professions
The New Woman at Home
Conclusion
Chapter 13. The Woman Movement, 1860 - 1900
Cross-Class Alliances
Spanning the Nation
Campaigns of the 1890s
Woman’s Empire
Conclusion
Chapter 14. The New Morality, 1880 — 1920
Urban Pleasures, Urban Dangers
Changing Relations of Intimacy
Curbing “Social Evils”
Women’s Bodies and Reproduction
Rebels in Bohemia
Conclusion
Chapter 15. The Progressive Era, 1890 — 1920
“Municipal Housekeeping”
The Era of Women’s Strikes
“Mother-Work”
World War I
Votes For Women
Conclusion
Chapter 16. The Jazz Age, 1920 — 1930
“Revolution in Manners and Morals”
Women and Work
Beyond Suffrage
Women’s Activism
The Culture of Modernity
Conclusion
Chapter 17. The Great Depression, 1930 — 1940
Facing the Depression
Activism
Women and the New Deal
Cultures of the 1930s
Conclusion
Chapter 18. World War Ii Home Fronts, 1940 — 1945
Women at Work on the Home Front
Gender and Wartime Popular Culture
Wartime Domesticity
Creating a Woman’s Army
Conclusion
Chapter 19. The Feminine Mystique, 1945 — 1965
Beyond Domesticity
Cold War Mothering
Remaking the American Home
The Heterosexual Imperative
Sexual Dangers
Conclusion
Chapter 20. Civil Rights And Liberal Activism, 1945 — 1975
The Civil Rights Movement
A Movement Takes Shape
Agenda for Reform
Conclusion
Chapter 21. The Personal Is Political, 1960 — 1980
Sexual Revolutions
Women’s Liberation
Personal Politics
Family Life, One Day at a Time
Conclusion
Chapter 22. Endings And Beginnngs, 1980 — 2011
The New Right
Work and Family in the 1990s
Global America
Conclusion
