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Women and the Making of America, Volume 2 / Edition 1
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- 0138126879
- ISBN-13:
- 9780138126872
- Pub. Date:
- 08/05/2008
- Publisher:
- Pearson
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Overview
A chronological survey of the role and experience of women in American history, Women and the Making of America examines the issue of power in women’s lives and women’s history. Examining relationships between men and women as well as the diverse experiences of different women, the book explores how women were central to the making of America’s history.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780138126872 |
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Publisher: | Pearson |
Publication date: | 08/05/2008 |
Series: | Retrieving the American Past Series |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 528 |
Product dimensions: | 7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Mari Jo Buhle
Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor and Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University, specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana—Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870—1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left, second edition (1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (1991—1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Teresa Murphy
Teresa Murphy is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. Born and raised in California, she received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD from Yale University. She is the author of Ten Hours Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England (1992) and is currently completing a study about the origins of women’s history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is the former Associate Editor of American Quarterly.
Jane F. Gerhard
Jane F. Gerhard is a visiting assistant professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, specializing in American women’s history and the history of sexuality in America. She received her B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. from Brown University. She is the author of Desiring Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 (2001).
Table of Contents
[Volume II: Chapters 11-22]
Chapter 11 THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST, 1860-1900
ON THE RANGE AND IN MINING COMMUNITIES
Home on the Range
The Sporting Life
Domesticity on the Mining Frontier
MORMON SETTLEMENTS
The Doctrine of Plural Marriage
“The Mormon Question”
The Woman’s Vote in Utah
SPANISH-SPEAKING WOMEN OF THE SOUTHWEST
Landowning Elite
Communal Villagers
Urban Householders
BUILDING COMMUNITIES IN THE HEARTLAND
Homestead Act & Immigration
Woman’s Work, Never Done
Turning Wilderness into “Civilization”
The Patrons of Husbandry
INDIAN WOMEN, CONQUEST AND SURVIVAL
Nez Perce
Plains Indians
Southern Ute
Chapter 12 NEW WOMEN
NEW INDUSTRIES, NEW JOBS
Manufacturing
Retail Sales and Office Work
Domestic Service
NEW IMMIGRANTS
Italians
Jews
Chinese
THE NEW SOUTH
Tenant Farming and Sharecropping
Domestic Service
Textiles and Mill Villages
NEW PROFESSIONS
Education
Medicine
Ministry
Visual Art
THE NEW WOMAN AT HOME
Smaller Families, Better Babies
Woman’s Sphere Transformed
From Production to Consumption
Chapter 13 THE WOMAN MOVEMENT, 1880-1900
CROSS-CLASS ALLIANCES
Young Women’s Christian Association
Christian Homes for African American Working Women
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union Illinois Woman’s Alliance
SPANNING THE NATION
National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
National American Woman Suffrage Association
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
National Association of Colored Women
CAMPAIGNS OF THE 1890S
Populism
Woman Suffrage in the West
Antilynching Crusade
Spanish American War
WOMAN’S EMPIRE
Women’s Foreign Mission Movement
World WCTU
Outposts of the YWCA
Chapter 14 THE NEW MORALITY, 1880-1920
URBAN PLEASURES, URBAN DANGERS
“Women Adrift”
Cheap Amusements
“Charity Girls”
CHANGING RELATIONS OF INTIMACY
Courtship and Marriage
Divorce
Female Friends and Women Lovers
CURBING “SOCIAL EVILS”
Social Purity Campaign
Crusading Against Prostitution
Legislating Against “Miscegenation”
WOMEN’S BODIES & REPRODUCTION
Designed for Motherhood
Controlling Reproduction
The Birth Control Campaign
REBELS IN BOHEMIA
Living the New Morality
Heterodoxy and Feminism
Art and Politics
Chapter 15 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1890-1920
“MUNICIPAL HOUSEKEEPING”
Jane Addams and Hull-House
The Settlement Movement: A Community of Women
“A Power for Good”: Neighborhood Activism
THE ERA OF WOMEN’S STRIKES
Women’s Trade Union League
Uprisings in the Garment Industry
“Bread and Roses”: The Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912
Protective Labor Legislation
“MOTHER-WORK”
Juvenile Courts
Mothers’ Pensions
The Children’s Bureau
WORLD WAR I
Wartime Employment
The Peace Movement
In National Defense
Keeping Men Fit to Fight
VOTES FOR WOMEN
Out of the Doldrums
Southern Strategy
Winning Campaign
Nineteenth Amendment, 1920
Chapter 16 THE JAZZ AGE 1920-1930
“REVOLUTION IN MORALS AND MANNERS’
Courtship in Transition
Companionate Marriage
Invention of the Lesbian Threat
WOMEN AND WORK
Married women workers
Pink-Collar Workers
Domestic Servants
Professional Workers
BEYOND SUFFRAGE
Feminist--New StyleThe League of Women Voters
The Equal Rights Amendment
The Sheppard-Towner Act
WOMEN’S ACTIVISM
”Race Women” and Pan Africanism
Anti-Lynching Crusade
Klu Klux Klan
THE CULTURE OF MODERNITY
Dance Crazes
Harlem Renaissance
Singing the Blues
Chapter 17 The Great Depression, 1930-1940
Facing the Depression
Economics of running a house
Postponing marriage and children
Gender and the politics of providing
Activism
Appalachian Women in the Textile Industry
Chinese Women in San Francisco’s Garment Industry
Latinas and the California Canning Industry
The New Deal
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Women’s Network
Women in the New Deal
Gender in the Welfare State
Cultures of the Thirties
Representing Gender in New Deal Public Art
Documenting the Depression
Regulating Hollywood
Chapter 18 WORLD WAR II HOME FRONTS, 1940-1945
Women at Work on the Home Front
Working for Victory
For the Duration
Ongoing Discrimination
Gender and Wartime Popular Culture
Advertising the War
Hollywood’s War
Wartime Fashion
All-Girl Players
Wartime Domesticity
Feeding a Family
Housing Shortages
Homemaking in the Internment Camps
Parenting during the Crisis
Creating a Woman’s Army
The Women’s Army
Gender Anxieties in WAC
Women’s Air Force Service Pilots
Prejudice in the Women’s Army
Demobilization
Chapter 19 The Feminine Mystique, 1945-1965
Beyond DomesTIcity
Rosie Does Not Go Home
Working Mothers
Challenging Segregation at Work
COLD WAR MOTHERING
Bringing Up Baby
Momism
The Black Mother and Racism
REMAKING THE AMERICAN HOME
The Suburb
Chinatown
The Barrio
THE HETEROSEXUAL IMPERATIVE
Beauty Icons
Sexual Brinkmanship
Beats and Bohemians
Writing Womanhood
SEXUAL DANGERS
Back Ally Abortions
The Homosexual Menace
Lesbian Subcultures
C hapter 20 Civil Rights and Liberal ACTIVISM, 1945-1975
The Civil Rights Movement
Challenging Segregation
Freedom Struggles
Coming of Age in Mississippi
A Movement takes Shape
Labor Activism
The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
Building a Movement
National Welfare Rights Organization
AGENDA FOR REFORM
Legislating Equality
Education and Athletics
Reproductive Freedom
The Media and the Movement
C hapter 21 the personal is political, 1960-1980
SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS
Liberation for All
Obscenity Redefined
Gay Liberation
WOMEN’S LIBERATION
Women of the New Left
Black Feminism
“We Called Ourselves Feministas”
The Woman Warrior
PERSONAL POLITICS
Rethinking Heterosexuality
Lesbian Feminism
The Feminist Art Movement
The Women’s Health Movement
Abortion
FAMILY LIFE, ONE DAY AT A TIME
Women at Work
The Second Shift
Marriage and Divorce
The Feminization of Poverty
Chapter 22 ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS, 1980 to 2008
THE NEW RIGHT
STOP ERA
The Pro-Family Movement
Moral Panics and Culture Wars
The Anti-Abortion Movement
WORK AND FAMILY IN THE 1990S
Work and Welfare
Gender Gaps
Caring for the Elderly
GLOBAL AMERICA
New Faces, New Families
The Gulf Wars
Terrorism at Home and Abroad
Global Feminism
Third Wave
Appendix
Glossary of Key Terms
Biographical Glossary
Index