Women's America: refocusing the past

INTRODUCTION: Gender and the new women's history / Jane Sherron De Hart and Linda K. Kerber I. TRADITIONAL AMERICA, 1600-1820 : Creating a blended household: Christian Indian women and English domestic life in Colonial Massachusetts / Ann Marie Plane "This evil extends especially...to the feminine sex": Negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands / James F. Brooks The ways of her household / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Document: The law of domestic relations: Marriage, divorce, dower African American women in colonial society / Carol Berkin Documents: The law of slavery "Searchers again assembled": Gender distinctions in seventeenth-century America / Mary Beth Norton Document: The trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 The devil in the shape of a woman: The economic basis of witchcraft / Carol F. Karlsen Taking the trade: abortion and gender relations in an eighteenth-century New England village / Cornelia Hughes Dayton Documents: Supporting the Revolution The republican mother and the woman citizen: contradictions and choices in Revolutionary America / Linda K. Kerber. II. THE MANY FRONTIERS OF INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA, 1820-1900 : Documents: The testimony of slave women Lines of color, sex, and service: sexual coercion in the early republic / Sharon Block Women's work: the gender division of labor in yeoman households of South Carolina before the Civil War / Stephanie McCurry The pastoralization of housework / Jeanne Boydston Document: Working conditions in early factories, 1845 The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Abortion in America / James C. Mohr Documents: Claiming rights I The Seneca Falls women's rights convention: a study of social networks / Judith Wellman Documents: Claiming rights II Sojourner Truth's defense of the rights of women / Nell Irvin Painter Enemies in our households: Confederate women and slavery / Drew Gilpin Faust Documents: Counterfeit freedom Reconstruction and the meanings of freedom / Tera W. Hunter Documents: After the Civil War: reconsidering the law Reading Little Women: the many lives of a text / Barbara Sicherman Document: The women's centennial agenda, 1876 Ida B. Wells and Southern Horrors / Patricia A. Schechter Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook Indian wife: miscegenation laws and the privileges of property / Peggy Pascoe Documents: Claiming an education Forging interracial links in the Jim Crow South / Glenda Gilmore

III. CREATING THE STATE IN AN INDUSTRIALIZED NATION, 1900-1945 : Rape and the inner lives of Black women / Darlene Clark Hine

Unbound feet: from China to San Francisco's Chinatown / Judy Yung

From the Russian pale to labor organizing in New York City / Annalise Orleck

Florence Kelley and women's activism in the Progressive Era / Kathryn Kish Sklar

Documents: Protecting women wage-workers

Orphans and ethnic division in Arizona: the Mexican mothers and the Mexican town / Linda Gordon

The next generation of suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and grassroots politics / Ellen Carol DuBois

Documents: Dimensions of citizenship I

Equal rights and economic roles: the conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s / Nancy F. Cott

Fasting girls: the emerging ideal of slenderness in American culture / Joan Jacobs Brumberg

The "Industrial Revolution" in the home: household technology and social change in the twentieth century / Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Disorderly women: gender and labor militancy in the Appalachian South / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

When abortion was a crime: reproduction and the economy in the Great Depression / Leslie J. Reagan

Harder times: the Great Depression / Jacqueline Jones

Document: Struggling to unionize

Designing women and old fools: writing gender into social security law / Alice Kessler-Harris

Storms on every front: Eleanor Roosevelt and human rights in Europe / Blanche Wiesen Cook

Life interrupted: a young refugee arrives in America / Gerda Lerner

Japanese American women during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto

Gender at work: the sexual division of labor during World War II / Ruth Milkman

IV. STRUGGLES AGAINST INJUSTICE, 1945-2000 : Betty Friedan and the origins of feminism in cold war America / Daniel Horowitz

Neighborhood women and grassroots human rights / Gerda Lerner

Miriam Van Waters and the burning of letters / Estelle Freedman

"Mannishness," lesbianism, and homophobia in U.S. women's sports / Susan K. Cahn

Ladies' day at the Capitol: women strike for peace versus HUAC / Amy Swerdlow

A woman's war: African American women in the Civil Rights Movement / Charles Payne

Documents: Dimensions of citizenship II

A human right to welfare? social protest among women welfare recipients after World War II / Felicia Kornbluh

Prescribing the pill: the coming of the sexual revolution in America's heartland / Beth L. Bailey

Why the Shirelles mattered: girl groups on the cusp of a feminist awakening / Susan J. Douglas

Documents: Making the personal political

Second-wave feminists and the dynamics of social change / Jane Sherron De Hart

Documents: Dimensions of citizenship III: Equal Rights Amendment, 1972

Documents: Dimensions of citizenship IV

Women in the Gulf War / Linda Bird Francke

Documents: The changing workplace

"Material Girl": Madonna as postmodern heroine / Susan Bordo

Documents: Rethinking marriage in the late twentieth century

Sexual harassment on trial: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas narrative(s) / Robin Tolmach Lakoff

Inscriptions of poverty on the female body in the era of welfare reform / Vivyan C. Adair

Sweatshops here and there: the garment industry, Latinas, and labor migrations / Carmen Teresa Whalen

Thirty years after Roe: the continued assault on a woman's right to choose / Jane Sherron De Hart and Carolyn Herbst Lewis

Women and global citizenship / Sara Evans.