From founding mothers to modern feminists, this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces
the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the
authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society. Includes photographs and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Early America and The Revolutionary War
1. Founding Mothers
2. Suffer Not a Woman to Speak
3. Remember the Ladies, The Nineteenth Century: Salves, "Ladies,"Reformers, and Working Women
4. Black Bondage/White Pedestal
5. The Making of a Middle-Class Lady
6. Origins of Feminism
7. The First Feminist Revolt
8. On the Loom: The First Factory Women, The Civil War and the Movement Westward
9. Homespun Blue and Gray
10. From Women's Rights to Woman Suffrage
11. The Maverick West: Industrialization and Urbanization
12. Immigrant Mothers and Daughters
13. Social Housekeeping: Women in Progressive Reform
14. Bread and Roses
15. Votes for Women
16. Flappers, Sex Objects, and Birth Control
17. Don't Steal A Job from a Man
18. Just a Housewife
19. The New Feminism
Notes.
Index.
