Research Catalog

Title

Our American sisters : women in American life and thought / [edited by] Jean E. Friedman, William G. Shade, Mary Jane Capozzoli.

Publication

Lexington : D.C. Heath and Company, ©1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Friedman, Jean E.
• Shade, William G.
• Capozzoli, Mary Jane.

Description

xviii, 572 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Women > United States > History
• Women > United States > Social conditions
• Feminism > United States > History
• Feminism
• Women
• Women > Social conditions
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Frau
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Previous editions copyright ©1982 by D.C. Health and company ; and 1976, 1973 by Allyn and Bacon, Inc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

[Part] 1. Colonial women. Husbands and wives / John Demos -- The planter's wife : the experience of white women in seventeenth-century Maryland / Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh -- Black women in colonial Pennsylvania / Jean R. Soderlund -- The illusion of change : women and the American Revolution / Joan Hoff Wilson -- Daughters of Columbia : educating women for the Republic, 1787-1804 / Linda K. Kerber -- [pt.] 2. Victorian images. The lady and the mill girl : changes in the status of women in the age of Jackson / Gerda Lerner -- Religion and the bonds of womanhood / Nancy F. Cott -- Women's perspective on the patriarchy in the 1850s / Anne Firor Scott -- "My mother was much of a woman" : Black women, work, and the family under slavery / Jacqueline Jones -- The origins of the sweatshop : women and early industrialization in New York City / Christine Stansell -- Women's rights before the Civil War / Ellen Carol DuBois -- [pt. 3]. The Progressive impulse. Women in the Southern Farmers' Alliance : a reconsideration of the role and status of women in the late nineteenth-century South / Julie Roy Jeffrey -- Working class women in the Gilded Age : factory, community, and family life among Cohoes, New York, cotton workers / Daniel J. Walkowitz -- Labor's true woman : domesticity and equal rights in the Knights of Labor / Susan Levine -- Creating a feminist alliance : sisterhood and class conflict in the New York Women's Trade Union League, 1903-1914 / Nancy Schrom Dye -- Loving courtship or the marriage market? : the ideal and its critics, 1871-1911 / Sondra R. Herman -- Leadership and tactics in the American woman suffrage movement : a new perspective from Massachusetts / Sharon Hartman Strom -- Women reformers and American culture, 1870-1930 / Jill Conway -- [pt. 4]. The illusion of equality. The American woman's pre-World War I freedom in manners and morals / James R. McGovern -- Two washes in the morning and a bridge party at night : the American housewife between the wars / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Women workers and the UAW in the post-World War II period, 1945-1954 / Nancy Gabin -- A "New Frontier" for women : the public policy of the Kennedy administration / Cynthia E. Harrison -- The paradox of progress / William H. Chafe -- Radical feminism and feminist radicalism / Ellen Willis-- The liberation of Black women / Pauli Murray.

ISBN

• 0669110205
• 9780669110203

LCCN

86081268

OCLC

• ocm15113509
• 15113509
• SCSB-1700177

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library