America's women : four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines /
Collins, Gail.
America's women : four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines / Gail Collins. - 1st Perennial ed. - New York : Perennial : Harper Collins, 2004. - xvii, 556 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-540) and index.
The first colonists: voluntary and otherwise -- The women of New England: goodwives, heretics, Indian captives, and witches -- Daily life in the colonies: housekeeping, children, and sex -- Toward the revolutionary war -- 1800-1860: true women, separate spheres, and many emergencies -- Life before the civil war: cleanliness and corsetry -- African American women: life in bondage -- Women and abolition: white and Black, north and south -- The civil war: nurses, wives, spies, and secret soldiers -- Women go west: pioneers, homesteaders, and the fair but frail -- The gilded age: stunts, shorthand, and study clubs -- Immigrants: discovering the "woman's country" -- Turn of the century: the arrival of the new woman -- Reforming the world: suffrage, temperance, and other causes -- The twenties: all the liberty you can use in the backseat of a Packard -- The Depression: Ma Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt -- World War II: "she's making history, working for victory" -- The fifties: life at the far end of the pendulum -- The sixties: the pendulum swings back with a vengeance.
0060959819 (pbk.) 9780060959814 (pbk.)
Women--History.--United States
Women--Social conditions--History.--United States
United States--Social life and customs--Women--History.
305.4/0973
America's women : four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines / Gail Collins. - 1st Perennial ed. - New York : Perennial : Harper Collins, 2004. - xvii, 556 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-540) and index.
The first colonists: voluntary and otherwise -- The women of New England: goodwives, heretics, Indian captives, and witches -- Daily life in the colonies: housekeeping, children, and sex -- Toward the revolutionary war -- 1800-1860: true women, separate spheres, and many emergencies -- Life before the civil war: cleanliness and corsetry -- African American women: life in bondage -- Women and abolition: white and Black, north and south -- The civil war: nurses, wives, spies, and secret soldiers -- Women go west: pioneers, homesteaders, and the fair but frail -- The gilded age: stunts, shorthand, and study clubs -- Immigrants: discovering the "woman's country" -- Turn of the century: the arrival of the new woman -- Reforming the world: suffrage, temperance, and other causes -- The twenties: all the liberty you can use in the backseat of a Packard -- The Depression: Ma Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt -- World War II: "she's making history, working for victory" -- The fifties: life at the far end of the pendulum -- The sixties: the pendulum swings back with a vengeance.
0060959819 (pbk.) 9780060959814 (pbk.)
Women--History.--United States
Women--Social conditions--History.--United States
United States--Social life and customs--Women--History.
305.4/0973