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Women and the Making of America, Volume 1 / Edition 1
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- 0138126887
- ISBN-13:
- 9780138126889
- Pub. Date:
- 07/30/2008
- Publisher:
- Pearson
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Overview
A chronological survey of the role and experience of women in American history, Women and the Making of America examines the issue of power in women’s lives and women’s history. Examining relationships between men and women as well as the diverse experiences of different women, the book explores how women were central to the making of America’s history.
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ISBN-13: | 9780138126889 |
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Publisher: | Pearson |
Publication date: | 07/30/2008 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 432 |
Product dimensions: | 7.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Mari Jo Buhle
Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor and Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University, specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left, second edition (1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (1991–1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Teresa Murphy
Teresa Murphy is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. Born and raised in California, she received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD from Yale University. She is the author of Ten Hours Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England (1992) and is currently completing a study about the origins of women’s history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is the former Associate Editor of American Quarterly.
Jane F. Gerhard
Jane F. Gerhard is a visiting assistant professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, specializing in American women’s history and the history of sexuality in America. She received her B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. from Brown University. She is the author of Desiring Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 (2001).
Table of Contents
[Volume I: Chapters 1-11]
Chapter 1 WORLDS APART, to 1700
WOMEN IN THE AMERICAS
Hunting and Gathering
Cultural Differences
Marriage, Family, and Gender Identities
Exercising Power
EUROPEAN WOMEN
Flexible Labor Force
Patriarchal Societies
Challenges to Patriarchy
AFRICAN WOMEN BEFORE NEW WORLD CONTACT
Work and Power
Family Economies
Dependence and Freedom: Slavery in Africa
THE GENDERED DYNAMICS OF CONTACT
Discovering New Worlds
Sexuality and Claims of Civilization
Gender and the Emergence of the Slave Trade
Chapter 2 CONTACT AND CONQUEST, 1500-1700
SPANISH CONQUEST IN THE SOUTHWEST
Immigration and Work
Captivity and Kinship
Religion and Conquest
Witchcraft, Resistance, and Revolt
TRADING VENTURES IN THE NORTH
The Fur Trade
Catholicism and Conversion
Marriage, Sex, and Survival in the Middle Ground
New Netherland Trade
PLANTATION SOCIETIES OF THE SOUTHEAST
The Tobacco Economy
Wealthy Widows and Serving Wenches
Slavery, Race, and Intermarriage
Anxious Patriarchs
GODLY SOCIETIES OF NEW ENGLAND
Goodwives
Family Government
Female Piety
Witchcraft and Danger
Chapter 3 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY REVOLUTIONS
THE MARKET REVOLUTION
Cities of Women
A New World of Goods
Issues of Inequality
Slavery in a Market Economy
FAMILY RELATIONS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Passions and Patriarchal Authority
Disorderly Women: The Challenge of the Great Awakening
Female Companions: The Gendered Enlightenment
DECLARING INDEPENDENCE
Daughters of Liberty
Loyalist Wives
Fighting the War
Seize the Day: Indian and Slave Women of the Revolution
Female Citizens
A VIRTUOUS REPUBLIC
Republican Mothers and Virtuous Wives
Educated Women
A Limited Revolution
Chapter 4 FRONTIERS OF TRADE AND EMPIRE
INDIAN COUNTRY
Multiple Meanings of Captivity
Seneca Households: “A Perfect Equality”
Shawnee Society and the Incorporation of Strangers
Inheritance and Power among the Cherokee
SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN LOUISIANA
The Traffic in Women
New Orleans and Urban Slavery
Gens de Couleur Libre
WESTERN FRONTIERS
Texas: The Challenges of Settlement
New Mexico Women and Trading Networks
California Missions
The Overland Trails
Chapter 5 DOMESTIC ECONOMIES AND NORTHERN LIVES
INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Factory Families
Independent Mill Girls
Family Wage Economy
TOWN AND COUNTRYSeamstresses, Servants, and Shop Girls
Sex for Sale
Butter and Eggs
PRIVATE LIVES: DEFINING THE MIDDLE CLASS
Hidden Economy of Housework
Cult of Domesticity
Courtship and Marriage
Sexual Boundaries
Controlling Family Size
MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE FEMALE EXPERIENCEAfrican American Independence
Irish Domesticity
German Guardians of Tradition
THE CULTURE OF SENTIMENTWomen on Stage
Scribbling Women
Earnest Readers
Chapter 6 FAMILY BUSINESS: SLAVERY AND PATRIARCHY
ANTEBELLUM SLAVERY
Strong as Any Man: Slave Women’s Work
Status and Special Skills
Family Life
Sexual Demands of Slavery
Violence and Resistance
PLANTATION HOUSEHOLDS
Keeper of the Keys
Defense of Patriarchy
Family Networks
Breaking Ties
STRUGGLES FOR INDEPENDENCE
By the Sweat of their Brow: White Yeoman Households
Freedom in the Midst of Slavery: The Free African American Community
Living with the Law
REPRESENTING THE SOUTH
Constructing Virtue: Slave Women
Plantation Novels
Fighting for the South
Chapter 7 RELIGION AND REFORM
REVIVALS AND RELIGIOUS VIRTUE
Gendered Revivals in the North
Evangelical Commitment in the South
Mothers and Missionaries
Preaching the Word
RELIGION AND FAMILY AUTHORITY
Quakers, Spiritualists, and Female Autonomy
Reform Judaism and Gender Hierarchies
Power and Danger in Catholic Convents
CONTROLLING THE BODY, PERFECTING THE SOUL
Celibacy of Shakers
Bible Communism: Complex Marriage in the Oneida Community
Moral Reform Societies: Combating the Sex Trade
Bodily Purification and the Dangers of Drink
Curbing Domestic Violence
CONTESTING THE NATION: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REFORMS
Working Women and Labor Protests
Protesting Indian Removal
Race, Hierarchy, and the Critique of Slavery
Politics and Gender in the Antislavery Movement
Chapter 8 POLITICS AND POWER: THE MOVEMENT FOR WOMAN’S RIGHTS
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY
Communitarian Experiments in Family and Property
Family Assets: Married Women’s Property Laws
Work and Wages
CHALLENGING THE DOCTRINE OF SEPARATE SPHERES
Promoting Female Seminaries
Confronting Educational Barriers
Demands for Divorce
WOMAN’S INFLUENCE VS. WOMAN’S RIGHTS
The Beecher-Grimke Debate
Political Participation
From Moral Suasion to Political Action
FORGING A MOVEMENT
Seneca Falls and Other Conventions
The Female Citizen
Aren’t I a Woman?
Reaching Out
Marriage and Divorce
Chapter 9 THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865
THE NORTHERN HOME FRONT
Woman’s National Loyal League
Bonnet Brigades
United States Sanitary Commission
Freedmen’s Aid Societies
Wartime Employments
ON THE BATTLE FIELDS
Army Nurses
Soldiers
Spies
PLANTATION SOCIETY IN TURMOIL
Unflinching Loyalty to the Cause
Plantations without Patriarchs
Campfollowers and Contrabands
A WOMAN’S WAR
A Moral Crusade against Slavery
Hospital Sketches
Memoirs and Memories
Chapter 10 IN THE AGE OF SLAVE EMANCIPATION, 1865 - 1877
RECONSTRUCTING SOUTHERN HOUSEHOLDS
The Meaning of Freedom
Negotiating Free Labor
White Women on the Old Plantation
“Freedom Was Free-er” in Towns and Cities
WOMAN’S RIGHTS RE-EMERGES
“The Negro’s Hour”
Organizing for Suffrage
The Notorious Victoria Woodhull
The New Departure
WOMAN’S RIGHT TO LABOR
Women’s Clubs
Associations for Working Women
Trade Unions
WOMAN’S CRUSADE
“Baptism of Power and Liberty”
Frances Willard
Home Protection
Chapter 11 THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1860-1900
ON THE RANGE AND IN MINING COMMUNITIES
Home on the Range
The Sporting Life
Domesticity on the Mining Frontier
MORMON SETTLEMENTS
The Doctrine of Plural Marriage
“The Mormon Question”
The Woman’s Vote in Utah
SPANISH-SPEAKING WOMEN OF THE SOUTHWEST
Landowning Elite
Communal Villagers
Urban Householders
BUILDING COMMUNITIES IN THE HEARTLAND
Homestead Act & Immigration
Woman’s Work, Never Done
Turning Wilderness into “Civilization”
The Patrons of Husbandry
INDIAN WOMEN, CONQUEST AND SURVIVAL
Nez Perce
Plains Indians
Southern Ute