Research Catalog

Title

Women and power in American history / [edited by] Kathryn Kish Sklar, Thomas Dublin.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sklar, Kathryn Kish
• Dublin, Thomas, 1946-

Description

xii, 342 p. ; ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Women and Power in American History provides a coherent group of readings related to the unifying theme of power in women's lives over time. A greater understanding of how power inequalities are organized along gender lines can help us work toward a more egalitarian and just society. Because the work of the women's movement is far from complete, the need for a fuller historical understanding of how women's lives have changed over time remains great.This anthology brings together carefully selected, cutting-edge readings in U.S. Women's History--organized around issues related to gender and power in American society. The twenty-seven individual essays provide students with unifying themes that promote their understanding of women's history and changing gender relations. Both co-authors are highly visible in the field of women's history." -- Publisher's description.

Subject

• Women > United States > History
• Women > United States > Social conditions

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface -- About the editors -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Anglo-Algonquian gender frontier / Kathleen M. Brown -- 2. The beginnings of the Afro-American family in Maryland / Allan Kulikoff -- 3. Women and property across colonial America / Deborah A. Rosen -- 4. Food rioters and the American Revolution / Barbara Clark Smith -- 5. Women, work, and protest in the early Lowell Mills : "the oppressing hand of avarice would enslave us" / Thomas Dublin -- 6. The domestic balance of power : relations between mistress and maid in nineteenth-century New England / Carol Lasser -- 7. Gender and slave labor in antebellum New Orleans / Virginia Meacham Gould -- 8. Women's rights emerges within the anti-slavery movement : Angelina and Sarah Grimké in 1837 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- 9. Women and Indians on the frontier / Glenda Riley -- 10. Victorian women and domestic life : Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe / Kathryn Kish Sklar --^
• 11. Reproductive control and conflict in the nineteenth century / Janet Farrell Brodie -- 12. The exclusion of Chinese women, 1870-1943 / Sucheng Chan -- 13. Separation as strategy : female institution building and American feminism, 1870-1930 / Estelle Freedman -- 14. Race and womanhood : the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and African-American women in North Carolina, 1880-1900 / Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore -- 15. Hull House in the 1890s : a community of women reformers / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- 16. "Charity girls" and city pleasures : historical notes on working-class sexuality, 1880-1920 / Kathy Peiss -- 17. Discontented black feminists : prelude and postscript to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- 18. The professionalization of birth control / Linda Gordon -- 19. Why were most politically active women opposed to the ERA in the 1920s? / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- 20. Companionate marriage and the lesbian threat / Christina Simmons --^
• 21. Redefining "women's work" : the sexual division of labor in the auto industry during World War II / Ruth Milkman -- 22. When women arrived : the transformation of New York's Chinatown / Xiaolan Bao -- 23. Nina Simone, culture, and black activism in the 1960s / Ruth Feldstein -- 24. A new women's movement : the emergence of the National Organization for Women / Cynthia Harrison -- 25. State building, health policy, and the persistence of the American abortion debate / Helene Silverberg -- 26. Buscando la vida : Mexican immigrant women's memories of home, yearning, and border crossings / María de la Luz Ibarra -- 27. Christians for biblical equality and the fight for the middle ground / Julie Ingersoll -- Selected links to U.S. women's history resource materials on the World Wide Web -- Suggestions for further reading -- Photo credits.

ISBN

• 9780205645756 (alk. paper)
• 0205645755 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008024749

OCLC

• 191927050
• SCSB-12173476

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library