Women's America: Refocusing the Past
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The third edition of this widely-acclaimed anthology integrates the best of recent scholarship in women's history with American history as a whole. A new introductory essay explains the ways in which the historical experiences of men and women in the United States have diverged, and traces the way in which gender has been socially constructed. Some seventy-five essays and documents—ranging from a letter written by a slave woman to an analysis of contemporary feminism—guide the reader to an understanding of the interaction of race, class, and gender throughout American history. With its wealth of primary and secondary source material, a revised appendix of essential legal documents, concise headnotes, and clear, chronological organization, the third edition of Women's America shows with new force and vigor why gender has become a powerful analytical device for those seeking to understand the history of the United States.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender and the New Women's History1Creating a Blended Household: Christian Indian Women and English Domestic Life in Colonial Massachusetts29"This Evil Extends Especially ... to the Feminine Sex": Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands38The Ways of Her Household45Documents: The Law of Domestic Relations: Marriage, Divorce, Dower: Examples from Colonial Connecticut55African American Women in Colonial Society59Document: The Law of Slavery: "According to the condition of the mother ..."67Document: The Law of Slavery: "For prevention of that abominable mixture ..."68"Searchers again Assembled": Gender Distinctions in Seventeenth-Century America69Document: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637: "What law have I broken?"79The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft83Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village97Document: Supporting the Revolution: "The ladies going about for money exceeded everything ..."114Document: Supporting the Revolution: "The bullets would not cheat the gallows ..."115Document: Supporting the Revolution: "I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney ..."117The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen: Contradictions and Choices in Revolutionary America119Document: The Testimony of Slave Women: "I am quite heartsick ..."132Document: The Testimony of Slave Women: "Look for some others for to 'plenish de earth"132Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic135Women's Work: The Gender Division of Labor in Yeoman Households of South Carolina before the Civil War145The Pastoralization of Housework153Document: Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845: "She Complained of the hours for labor being too many ..."165The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America168Abortion in America183Document: Claiming Rights I: The Connection between Religious Faith, Abolition, and Women's Rights193Document: Claiming Rights I: "What I have suffered, I cannot tell you"198The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention: A Study of Social Networks200Document: Claiming Rights II: Declaration of Sentiments, 1848214Document: Claiming Rights II: Married Women's Property Acts, New York State, 1848, 1860217Sojourner Truth's Defense of the Rights of Women (as reported in 1851; rewritten in 1863)218Enemies in Our Household : Confederate Women and Slavery220Document: Counterfeit Freedom: "Young women particularly flock back & forth ..."233Document: Counterfeit Freedom: "I was more dead than alive"234Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom235Document: After the Civil War: Reconsidering the Law: Reconstruction Amendments, 1868, 1870247Document: After the Civil War: Reconsidering the Law: Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873248Document: After the Civil War: Reconsidering the Law: Comstock Law, 1873250Document: After the Civil War: Reconsidering the Law: Minor v. Happersett, 1875251Reading Little Women: The Many Lives of a Text252Document: The Women's Centennial Agenda, 1876: "Guaranteed to us and our daughters forever"265Ida B. Wells and Southern Horrors268Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook Indian Wife: Miscegenation Laws and the Privileges of Property275Document: Claiming an Education: "What right! have you to bar my children out of the school because she is of chinese Descend ..."281Document: Claiming an Education: "... this semblance of civilization ..."282Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South286Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women299Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco's Chinatown302From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City310Florence Kelley and Women's Activism in the Progressive Era327Document: Protecting Women Wage-Workers: Muller v. Oregon, 1908340Document: Protecting Women Wage-Workers: "We fought and we bled and we died ..."342Orphans and Ethnic Division in Arizona: The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town345The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics358Document: Dimensions of Citizenship I: Mackenzie v. Hare, 1915365Document: Dimensions of Citizenship I: Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920367Document: Dimensions of Citizenship I: Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 1923369Document: Dimensions of Citizenship I: "I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception ..."370Equal Rights and Economic Roles: The Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s379Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture390The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century399Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South410When Abortion Was a Crime: Reproduction and the Economy in the Great Depression423Harder Times: The Great Depression429Document: Struggling to Unionize: "... Once she understands she is standing in defense of her family - well, God, don't fool around with that woman then"433Designing Women and Old Fools: Writing Gender into Social Security Law435Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights at Home and in Europe447Life Interrupted: A Young Refugee Arrives in America454Japanese American Women during World War II459Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II466Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America481Neighborhood Women and Grassroots Human Rights496Miriam Van Waters and the Burning of Letters500"Mannishness," Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports508Ladies' Day at the Capitol: Women Strike for Peace versus HUAC517A Woman's War: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement532Document: Dimensions of Citizenship II: "I had entered law school preoccupied with the racial struggle ... but I graduated an unabashed feminist as well ..."537Document: Dimensions of Citizenship II: Hoyt v. Florida, 1961; Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975546Document: Dimensions of Citizenship II: Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964550A Human Right to Welfare? Social Protest among Women Welfare Recipients after World War II552Prescribing the Pill: The Coming of the Sexual Revolution in America's Heartland560Why the Shirelles Mattered: Girl Groups on the Cusp of a Feminist Awakening569Document: Making the Personal Political: "The problem that has no name ... I understood first as a woman ..."573Document: Making the Personal Political: "The protest of the Miss America Pageant ... told the nation a new feminist movement is afoot ..."576Document: Making the Personal Political: "Male supremacy is the oldest, most basic form of domination"578Document: Making the Personal Political: "What is a lesbian?"580Document: Making the Personal Political: "It has taken ... a long time ... to realize and speak out about the double oppression of Mexican-American women"583Document: Making the Personal Political: "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"584Document: Making the Personal Political: "We also find it difficult to separate race from class from sex oppression"586Document: Making the Personal Political: "One of the cruelest forms of sexism we live with today is ... [that] of many doctors"591Document: Making the Personal Political: The thoughts of one who loves life as a woman ..."593Second-Wave Feminists and the Dynamics of Social Change598Document: Dimensions of Citizenship III: Equal Rights Amendment, 1972624Document: Dimensions of Citizenship III: Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972625Document: Dimensions of Citizenship III: Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973628Document: Dimensions of Citizenship III: Roe v. Wade, 1973; Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992630Document: Dimensions of Citizenship IV: "We were the first American women sent to live and work in the midst of guerrilla warfare ..."637Document: Dimensions of Citizenship IV: Rostker v. Goldberg, 1981641Document: Dimensions of Citizenship IV: Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986643Document: Dimensions of Citizenship IV: Violence against Women Act, 1994, 2000646Women in the Gulf War647Document: The Changing Workplace: "... It's such a waste - such a waste of people. The way they put in word processing there, you had a lot of smart women getting dumb very fast"657Document: The Changing Workplace: "Entering construction ... was a little like falling in love with someone you weren't supposed to"658"Material Girl": Madonna as Postmodern Heroine660Documents: Rethinking Marriage in the Late Twentieth Century: Loving v. Virginia; Griswold v. Connecticut; Defense of Marriage Act664Sexual Harassment on Trial: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Narrative(s)670Inscriptions of Poverty on the Female Body in the Era of Welfare Reform677Sweatshops Here and There: The Garment Industry, Latinas, and Labor Migrations682Thirty Years after Roe: The Continued Assault on a Woman's Right to Choose691Women and Global Citizenship697Reference Works705Index727
