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Table of Contents

* New PRIMARY SOURCE
Chapter 1. America in the World, to 1650
Indigenous Women
Reading into the Past Two Sisters and Acoma Origins
Europeans Arrive
African Women and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Conclusion: Many Beginnings
PRIMARY SOURCES European Images of Indigenous Women
 
Chapter 2. Colonial Worlds, 1607–1750
A Changed World for Indigenous Peoples
Southern British Colonies
*Reading into the Past Florence Hall’s Account of the Slave Trade
Northern British Colonies
Reading into the Past Trial of Anne Hutchinson
Beyond the British Colonies
Conclusion: The Diversity of American Women
PRIMARY SOURCES By and About Colonial Women
PRIMARY SOURCES Depictions of “Family” in Colonial America
 
Chapter 3. Mothers and Daughters of the Revolution, 1750–1810
Background to Revolution, 1754–1775
Women and the Face of War, 1775–1783
Revolutionary Era Legacies
*Reading into the Past Thirteen Toasts
Conclusion: To the Margins of Political Action
PRIMARY SOURCES Gendering Images of the Revolution
PRIMARY SOURCES Phillis Wheatley, Enslaved Poet
PRIMARY SOURCES Education and Republican Motherhood
 
Chapter 4. Pedestal, Loom, and Auction Block, 1800–1860
The Ideology of True Womanhood
Reading into the Past Catharine Beecher, The Peculiar Responsibilities of the American Woman
Women and Wage Earning
Women, Slavery, and the South
Reading into the Past Beloved Children: Cherokee Women Petition the National Council
Reading into the Past Mary Boykin Chesnut, “Slavery a Curse to Any Land”
Conclusion: True Womanhood and the Reality of Women’s Lives
PRIMARY SOURCES Sex Work in New York City, 1858
PRIMARY SOURCES Mothering under Slavery
PRIMARY SOURCES Godey’s Lady’s Book
PRIMARY SOURCES Early Photographs of Factory Operatives
 
Chapter 5. Shifting Boundaries: Expansion, Reform, and Civil War, 1840–1865
An Expanding Nation, 1843–1861
Reading into the Past Narrative of Mrs. Rosalía Vallejo Leese, Who Witnessed the Hoisting of the Bear Flag in Sonoma on the 14th of June, 1846  
Antebellum Reform
Civil War, 1861–1865
*Reading into the Past Charlotte Forten Grimké, “Life on the Sea Islands”  
Conclusion: Reshaping Boundaries, Redefining Womanhood
PRIMARY SOURCES Female Labor in the Gold-Rush Economy
PRIMARY SOURCES Women’s Rights Partnership: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
PRIMARY SOURCES Women on the Civil War Battlefields
 
Chapter 6. Reconstructing Women’s Lives North and South, 1865–1900
Gender and the Postwar Constitutional Amendments
Women’s Lives in Southern Reconstruction and Redemption
Reading into the Past Mary Tape, “What Right Have You?”
Female Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism
Reading into the Past Leonora Barry, “Women in the Knights of Labor”
Women of the Leisured Classes
Conclusion: Toward a New Womanhood
PRIMARY SOURCES Ida B. Wells, “Race Woman”
PRIMARY SOURCES The Woman Who Toils
PRIMARY SOURCES The Higher Education of Women in the Postbellum Years
PRIMARY SOURCES The New Woman

Chapter 7. Women in an Expanding Nation: Consolidation of the West, Mass Immigration, and the Crisis of the 1890s
Consolidating the West
Late Nineteenth-Century Immigration
Reading into the Past Emma Goldman, “Living My Life”
Century’s End: Challenges, Conflict, and Imperial Ventures
Reading into the Past Clemencia Lopez, Women of the Philippines
Conclusion: Nationhood and Womanhood on the Eve of a New Century
PRIMARY SOURCES Representing Native American Women in the Late Nineteenth Century
PRIMARY SOURCES Jane Addams, “Twenty Years at Hull House”
PRIMARY SOURCES Jacob Riis’s Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Women
 
Chapter 8. Power and Politics: Women in the Progressive Era, 1900–1920
The Female Labor Force
The Female Dominion
*Reading into the Past Argument for the State of Oregon in Muller v. Oregon (The “Brandeis Brief”)
Votes for Women
The Emergence of Feminism
Reading into the Past Margaret Sanger, “Woman and Birth Control”
The Great War, 1914–1918
Reading into the Past Black Women Write about the Great Migration
Conclusion: New Conditions, New Challenges
*PRIMARY SOURCES Voices from the Suffrage Movement
PRIMARY SOURCES Parades, Picketing, and Power: Women in Public Space
PRIMARY SOURCES Uncle Sam Wants You: Women and World War I Posters
PRIMARY SOURCES Modernizing Womanhood
 
Chapter 9. Change and Continuity: Women in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1920–1945
Prosperity Decade: The 1920s
Depression Decade: The 1930s
*Reading into the Past Meridel LeSueur, “Women on the Breadlines” (1932)
*Reading into the Past Luisa Moreno, “Caravan of Sorrows” (1940)
Working for Victory: Women and War, 1941–1945
Reading into the Past Mary McLeod Bethune, “Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt” (1940)
Conclusion: The Modern Woman in Ideal and Reality
*PRIMARY SOURCES Women Use Their Votes in the 1920s
PRIMARY SOURCES Beauty Culture Between the Wars
PRIMARY SOURCES Dorothea Lange’s Photographs of the Great Depression and World War II
PRIMARY SOURCES Voices of “Rosie the Riveter”
 
Chapter 10. Beyond the Feminine Mystique: Women’s Lives, 1945–1965
Family Culture and Gender Roles
*Reading into the Past Betty Friedan, “The Sexual Sell”
Women’s Activism in Conservative Times
A Mass Movement for Civil Rights
Reading into the Past Casey Hayden and Mary King, Women in the Movement
*Reading into the Past The “Moynihan Report”
Women and Public Policy
*Reading into the Past Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood, “Jane Crow and the Law”
Conclusion: The Limits of the Feminine Mystique
PRIMARY SOURCES Television’s Prescriptions for Women
*PRIMARY SOURCES Girls and Young Women in the Civil Rights Movement
 
Chapter 11. Modern Feminism and American Society, 1965–1980
Roots of Sixties Feminism
Reading into the Past National Organization for Women, “Women’s Bill of Rights”
Women’s Liberation and the Sixties Revolutions
Ideas and Practices of Women’s Liberation
Diversity, Race, and Feminism
The Impact of Feminism
Reading into the Past Forced Sterilization
Changing Public Policy and Public Consciousness
Conclusion: Feminism’s Legacy
PRIMARY SOURCES Feminism and the Drive for Equality in the Workplace
PRIMARY SOURCES Women’s Liberation
*PRIMARY SOURCES Jane, the Underground Abortion Collective
 
Chapter 12. U.S. Women in Decisive Times, 1980–Present
Political and Cultural Backlash
Feminism after the Second Wave
Reading into the Past  LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, The Meaning of the Standing Rock Protests
Women and Politics
Reading into the Past  Ilhan Omar, First Muslim Somali American Lawmaker
The Abortion Wars
Women’s Lives in Modern America
*Reading into the Past Maria Gabriela Pacheco, “The Trail of Dreams”
Conclusion: Women in the Twenty-First Century
*PRIMARY SOURCES LGBTQ+ Lives in the Third Wave
 
APPENDIX: DOCUMENTS
APPENDIX: TABLES AND CHARTS

Authors

Ellen Carol DuBois

Ellen Carol DuBois (PhD, Northwestern University) is Distinguished Research Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (winner of the 1998 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History from the American Historical Association); and Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights. With Vicki L. Ruiz, she coedited the influential anthology Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women’s History. With Vinay Lal, she is coauthor of A Passionate Life: Writings By and About Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. Her newest book, Suffrage: Women’s Long Road to the Ballot Box, appeared in 2020, the first comprehensive history of the American woman suffrage movement in a half century.

Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History, Emerita, at Occidental College. She has written The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s, and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880–1930. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, Reviews in American History, and the American Historical Review.

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Brenda Stevenson

Brenda Elaine Stevenson (PhD, Yale University) is the inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women’s History at the University of Oxford and the inaugural Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the award-winning monographs: Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South; and The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots. She is also the author of What Is Slavery?; the editor of the Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké; and the co-author of The Underground Railroad. Her new monograph, What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family, appeared in April 2023. She was appointed by President Biden to serve on the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board in 2022.

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