TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins,Gail
TI  - America's women: four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines 
SN  - 0060959819 (pbk.)
U1  - 305.4/0973 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Perennial, Harper Collins
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - 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
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