Women's America: Refocusing the Past / Edition 8

by Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

Overview

Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its eighth edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent developments in U.S. women's history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199349340
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/04/2015
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	848
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Iowa. She is the author of several books, including No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies (1999) and Toward an Intellectual History of Women (1997). She has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Studies Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jane Sherron De Hart is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Co-author of Sex, Gender, and ERA: A State and the Nation (OUP, 1990), and winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award (1991), she specializes in twentieth-century issues of gender, politics, and policy. She is currently completing a study of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that blends biography and legal history.

Cornelia Hughes Dayton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. The author of Women Before the Bar (1995), she is currently writing a book about the life stories of those with mental disorders and their caretakers in eighteenth-century America. She recently launched a new website supplementing her essay "Taking the Trade" about a 1740s abortion trial.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xiv
	Introduction: Gender and the New Women's History	1
I	Traditional America, 1600-1820	25
	Creating a Blended Household: Christian Indian Women and English Domestic Life in Colonial Massachusetts	29
	"This Evil Extends Especially ... to the Feminine Sex": Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands	38
	The Ways of Her Household	45
	Documents: The Law of Domestic Relations: Marriage, Divorce, Dower
	Examples from Colonial Connecticut	55
	African American Women in Colonial Society	59
	Documents: The Law of Slavery
	"According to the condition of the mother ..."	67
	"For prevention of that abominable mixture ..."	68
	"Searchers again Assembled": Gender Distinctions in Seventeenth-Century America	69
	Document: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637
	"What law have I broken?"	79
	The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft	83
	Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village	97
	Documents: Supporting the Revolution
	"The ladies going about for money exceeded everything ..."	114
	Sarah Osborn, "The bullets would not cheat the gallows ..."	115
	Rachel Wells, "I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney ..."	117
	The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen: Contradictions and Choices in Revolutionary America	119
II	The Many Frontiers of Industrializing America, 1820-1900	129
	Documents: The Testimony of Slave Women
	Maria Perkins, "I am quite heartsick ..."	132
	Rose, "Look for some others for to 'plenish de earth"	132
	Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic	135
	Women's Work: The Gender Division of Labor in Yeoman Households of South Carolina before the Civil War	145
	The Pastoralization of Housework	153
	Document: Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845
	"She complained of the hours for labor being too many ..."	165
	The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America	168
	Abortion in America	183
	Documents: Claiming Rights I
	Sarah and Angelina Grimke: The Connection between Religious Faith, Abolition, and Women's Rights	193
	Keziah Kendall, "What I have suffered, I cannot tell you"	198
	The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention: A Study of Social Networks	200
	Documents: Claiming Rights II
	Declaration of Sentiments, 1848	214
	Married Women's Property Acts, New York State, 1848, 1860	217
	Sojourner Truth's Defense of the Rights of Women (as reported in 1851; rewritten in 1863)	218
	Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery	220
	Documents: Counterfeit Freedom
	A. S. Hitchcock, "Young women particularly flock back & forth ..."	233
	Roda Ann Childs, "I was more dead than alive"	234
	Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom	235
	Documents: After the Civil War: Reconsidering the Law
	Reconstruction Amendments, 1868, 1870	247
	Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873	248
	Comstock Law, 1873	250
	Minor v. Happersett, 1875	251
	Reading Little Women: The Many Lives of a Text	252
	Document: The Women's Centennial Agenda, 1876
	Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, "Guaranteed to us and our daughters forever"	265
	Ida B. Wells and Southern Horrors	268
	Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook Indian Wife: Miscegenation Laws and the Privileges of Property	275
	Documents: Claiming an Education
	Mary Tape, "What right! have you to bar my children out of the school because she is of chinese Descend ..."	281
	Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), "... this semblance of civilization ..."	282
	Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South	286
III	Creating the State in an Industrialized Nation, 1900-1945	297
	Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women	299
	Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco's Chinatown	302
	From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City	310
	Florence Kelley and Women's Activism in the Progressive Era	327
	Document: Protecting Women Wage-Workers
	Muller v. Oregon, 1908	340
	Pauline Newman, "We fought and we bled and we died ..."	342
	Orphans and Ethnic Division in Arizona: The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town	345
	The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics	358
	Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship I
	Mackenzie v. Hare, 1915	365
	Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920	367
	Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 1923	369
	Margaret Sanger, "I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception ..."	370
	Equal Rights and Economic Roles: The Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s	379
	Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture	390
	The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century	399
	Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South	410
	When Abortion Was a Crime: Reproduction and the Economy in the Great Depression	423
	Harder Times: The Great Depression	429
	Document: Struggling to Unionize
	Genora Johnson Dollinger, "... Once she understands she is standing in defense of her family--well, God, don't fool around with that woman then"	433
	Designing Women and Old Fools: Writing Gender into Social Security Law	435
	Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights at Home and in Europe	447
	Life Interrupted: A Young Refugee Arrives in America	454
	Japanese American Women during World War II	459
	Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II	466
IV	Struggles Against Injustice, 1945-2000	479
	Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America	481
	Neighborhood Women and Grassroots Human Rights	496
	Miriam Van Waters and the Burning of Letters	500
	"Mannishness," Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports	508
	Ladies' Day at the Capitol: Women Strike for Peace versus HUAC	517
	A Woman's War: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement	532
	Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship II
	Pauli Murray, "I had entered law school preoccupied with the racial struggle ... but I graduated an unabashed feminist as well..."	537
	Hoyt v. Florida, 1961; Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975	546
	Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964	550
	A Human Right to Welfare? Social Protest among Women Welfare Recipients after World War II	552
	Prescribing the Pill: The Coming of the Sexual Revolution in America's Heartland	560
	Why the Shirelles Mattered: Girl Groups on the Cusp of a Feminist Awakening	569
	Documents: Making the Personal Political
	Betty Friedan, "The problem that has no name ... I understood first as a woman ..."	573
	Carol Hanisch, "The protest of the Miss America Pageant ... told the nation a new feminist movement is afoot..."	576
	Redstockings, "Male supremacy is the oldest, most basic form of domination"	578
	Radicalesbians, "What is a lesbian?"	580
	Jennie V. Chavez, "It has taken ... a long time ... to realize and speak out about the double oppression of Mexican-American women"	583
	"Women in the Asian movement find that ... stereotypes are still hovering over their heads ... that [they] must play [the] old role[s] in order to get things done"	584
	The Combahee River Collective, "We also find it difficult to separate race from class from sex oppression"	586
	Kay Weiss, "One of the cruelest forms of sexism we live with today is ... [that] of many doctors"	591
	Phyllis Schlafly, The thoughts of one who loves life as a woman ..."	593
	Second-Wave Feminists and the Dynamics of Social Change	598
	Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship III
	Equal Rights Amendment, 1972	624
	Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972	625
	Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973	628
	Roe v. Wade, 1973; Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992	630
	Documents: Dimensions of Citzenship IV
	"We were the first American women sent to live and work in the midst of guerrilla warfare ..."	637
	Rostker v. Goldberg, 1981	641
	Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986	643
	Violence against Women Act, 1994, 2000	646
	Women in the Gulf War	647
	Documents: The Changing Workplace
	Lucille Schmidt, "... It's such a waste--such a waste of people. The way they put in word processing there, you had a lot fo smart women getting dumb very fast"	657
	Susan Eisenberg, "Entering construction ... was a little like falling in love with someone you weren't supposed to"	658
	"Material Girl": Madonna as Postmodern Heroine	660
	Documents: Rethinking Marriage in the Late Twentieth Century
	Loving v. Virginia; Griswold v. Connecticut; Defense of Marriage Act	664
	Sexual Harassment on Trial: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Narrative(s)	670
	Inscriptions of Poverty on the Female Body in the Era of Welfare Reform	677
	Sweatshops Here and There: The Garment Industry, Latinas, and Labor Migrations	682
	Thirty Years after Roe: The Continued Assault on a Woman's Right to Choose	691
	Women and Global Citizenship	697
	Reference Works	705
	Index	727

Editorial Reviews

"Balanced yet poignant focus on a past both rich and proud! I will use it!"—Ted Kluz, Auburn University

"Excellent work—covers all major questions and topics in the field. A good blend of primary and secondary sources."—Joseph Karpenski, Golden West College

"My students raved over the content! All regarded the essays as infromative and interesting."—Patricia Ojea, Cedar Crest College

"Well conceived, with great documents included to support the focus piece."—M. Deborah Bialeschki, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Excellent primary and secondary material, good for teaching politics, economics and culture of women in American history."—Rosalyn Baxandall, SUNY at Old Westbury

"Richer and far more poignant than other texts. Better suited to my course which compares European and US women's experience."—Deb Symonds, Drake University

"Wonderful book! We learned a lot from it!"—Helena Czosnyka, St. Louis College of Pharmacy

"A grand collection of essays and resources."—pamela Laird, University of Colorado at Denver

"From the new cover picture of Wasps to the inclusion of women challenging feminism, this Fourth Edition makes a superb teaching instrument even better!"—Norma Mitchell, Troy State University

"Great new edition!"—Debra O'Neal, CalState-Fullerton

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