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Overview
Synthesizing the best and most current scholarship, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents is a widely admired, ground-breaking text. The first to present a narrative of U.S. women’s history within the context of the central developments of the United States and to integrate written and visual primary sources into each chapter through its signature docutext format, it is perfect for teaching history as a dynamic process of interpretation. With its focus on women from a broad range of ethnicities, classes, religions, and regions, Through Women’s Eyes more than ever helps students understand how women are an integral part of U.S. history. Read the preface.
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Meet the Author
Ellen Carol DuBois is Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. DuBois is the author of Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1969; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Women’s Suffrage (winner of the 1998 Joan Kelly Price Award from the American Historical Association); and Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights. Her current women’s history work focuses on international feminist politics in the interwar years.
Lynn Dumenil is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. Dumenil has written The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880-1930. She is editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. America in the World to 1650
Native American Women Europeans Arrive African Women and the Atlantic Slave Trade Conclusion: Many Beginnings
Visual Sources: European Images of Native American Women
Document: African Women and the Slave Trade
Chapter 2. Colonial Worlds, 1607-1750
Southern British Colonies Northern British Colonies Other Europes/Other Americas Conclusion: The Diversity of American Women
Documents: By and About Colonial Women
Visual Sources: Material Culture
Visual Sources: Depictions of “Family” in Colonial America
Chapter 3. Mothers and Daughters of the Revolution, 1750–1800
Background to Revolution, 1754-1775
Women and the Face of War, 1775-1783
Revolutionary Era Legacies Conclusion: To the Margins of Political Action
Visual Sources: Portraits of Revolutionary Women
Visual Sources: Gendering Images of the Revolution
Documents: Phillis Wheatley, Poet and Slave
Documents: Education and Republican Motherhood
Chapter 4. Pedestal, Loom, and Auction Block, 1800–1860
The Ideology of True Womanhood Women and Wage Earning Women and Slavery Conclusion: True Womanhood and the Reality of Women’s Lives
Document: Prostitution in New York City, 1858
Documents: Two Slave Love Stories
Visual Sources: Godey’s Lady’s Book
Visual Sources: Early Photographs of Factory Operatives and Slave Women
Chapter 5. Shifting Boundaries: Expansion, Reform, and Civil War, 1840-1865
An Expanding Nation, 1843-1861
Antebellum Reform Civil War, 1861-1865
Conclusion: Reshaping Boundaries, Redefining Womanhood
*Documents: Dame Shirley’s Letters: A Woman’s Gold Rush
Documents: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Writing in the Lily and Una
Visual Sources: Women on the Civil War Battlefields
Chapter 6. Reconstructing Women’s Lives North and South, 1865-1900
Gender and the Postwar Constitutional Amendments Women’s Lives in Southern Reconstruction and Redemption Female Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism Women of the Leisured Classes Conclusion: Toward a New Womanhood
Documents: Ida B. Wells, “Race Woman”
Documents: The Woman Who Toils
Visual Sources: The Higher Education of Women in the Postbellum Years
*Visual Sources: The New Woman
Chapter 7. Women in an Expanding Nation: Consolidation of the West, Mass Immigration, and the Crisis of the 1890s
Consolidating the West Late Nineteenth-Century Immigration Century’s End: Challenges, Conflict, and Imperial Ventures Conclusion: Nationhood and Womanhood on the Eve of a New Century
Documents: Zitkala-Ša: Indian Girlhood and Education
Documents: Jane Addams and the Charitable Relation
Visual Sources: Jacob Riis’s Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Working Women
*Visual Sources: Women at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893
Chapter 8. Power and Politics: Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
The Female Labor Force The Female Dominion Votes For Women The Emergence of Feminism The Great War, 1914-1918
Conclusion: New Conditions, New Challenges
Visual Sources: Parades, Picketing, and Power: Women in Piblic Space
Visual Sources: Uncle Sam Wants You: Women and World War I Posters
Documents: Modernizing Womanhood
*Documents: American Women on the International Stage, 1915-1919
Chapter 9. Change and Continuity: Women in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1920-1945
Prosperity Decade: The 1920s Depression Decade: The 1930s Working for Victory: Women and War, 1941-1945
Conclusion: The New Woman in Ideal and Reality
Documents: Young Women Speak Out
Documents: Women's Networks in the New Deal
Visual Sources: Women at Work
*Visual Sources: Dorothea Lange Photographs Farm Women of the Great Depression
Chapter 10. Beyond the Feminine Mystique: Women’s Lives, 1945-1965
Family Culture and Gender Roles Women’s Activism in Conservative Times A Mass Movement for Civil Rights Women and Public Policy Conclusion: The Limits of the Feminine Mystique
Visual Sources: Television’s Prescriptions for Women
Documents: “Is a Working Mother a Threat to the Home?”
Documents: Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 11. Modern Feminism and American Society, 1965 to 1980
Roots of Sixties Feminism Women’s Liberation and the Sixties Revolutions Ideas and Practices of Women’s Liberation Diversity, Race, and Feminism The Impact of Feminism Changing Public Policy and Public Consciousness Conclusion: Feminism’s Legacy
Visual Sources: Feminism and the Drive for Equality in the Workplace
Documents: Women’s Liberation
Chapter 12. U.S. Women in a Global Age, 1980-present
Feminism and the New Right in American Politics Women and Politics
A New Kind of War: 9/11 and Its Aftermath Women’s Lives in Modern America and the World Conclusion: Women Face a New Century
*Documents: Women in the Presidential Election of 2008: Clinton, Palin, Obama
Visual Sources: American Women in the World
* = New to this edition