Women's America: refocusing the past
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Kerber, Linda K., editor.
De Hart, Jane Sherron, editor.
Dayton, Cornelia Hughes, editor.
Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun, editor.
De Hart, Jane Sherron, editor.
Dayton, Cornelia Hughes, editor.
Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun, editor.
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2016].
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Book
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Eighth edition.
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xx, 794 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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From the Preface. Twenty-seven years ago, writing the preface for the second edition of Women's America, we observed that in the few years since the first edition, "an extraordinary amount of new scholarship has appeared, changing the way in which professional historians address the major issues in the field... The pace of scholarly development is so rapid that comparisons can appropriately be made to scientific fields, which are expected to change overnight, rather than to the leisured pace of traditional history." That observation is even truer today, as the history of women in the United States reaches out to embrace changing understandings of gender and to engage comparisons with other national histories. Recognizing the wider range of new scholarship, this eighth edition of Women's America includes some 23 new items, many on subjects new to these volumes, with enhanced coverage of women's transnational contacts and activities; sexual choices and dilemmas, including transsexuality; and women's lives in the West, the Midwest, and the South. Even more than all previous editions, Women's America gives fresh attention to the challenges of citizenship and its grounding in the law, now in global context. We have written a new, more succinct Introduction, reflection on the book's purposes and its readers' questions in the 32 years since Women's America was first published. We continue to offer an account of different stages in historians' inquiries into the history of women and gender in the United States. In it, we explain key terms and concepts, such as feminism, the social construction of gender, and intersectionality (the understanding that categories of difference, of race, ethnicity, class, able-bodiedness, sexual expression, culture, nationality, religion, and historical memory intersect and define one another). We give a few examples of how mainstream ideas about proper gender roles and women's and men's differing sexual drives have changed dramatically over the four centuries of US history. For example, today, sex (male/female) is increasingly seen as a spectrum. We stress that varied activism aimed at improving women's lives, expanding rights, and fulfilling goals of liberation occurred continuously throughout the nation's history -- and sometimes in unexpected places and ways. The introduction contains tips on using the book and a roadmap in terms of the book's major themes. Here and throughout the book, we invite students to join us in asking how we can find equality in an American society shaped, like all human societies, by differences (page [xix]).
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Kerber, L. K., De Hart, J. S., Dayton, C. H., & Wu, J. T. (2016). Women's America: refocusing the past. Eighth edition. New York, Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Linda K., Kerber et al.. 2016. Women's America: Refocusing the Past. New York, Oxford University Press.
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From the Preface. Twenty-seven years ago, writing the preface for the second edition of Women's America, we observed that in the few years since the first edition, "an extraordinary amount of new scholarship has appeared, changing the way in which professional historians address the major issues in the field... The pace of scholarly development is so rapid that comparisons can appropriately be made to scientific fields, which are expected to change overnight, rather than to the leisured pace of traditional history." That observation is even truer today, as the history of women in the United States reaches out to embrace changing understandings of gender and to engage comparisons with other national histories. Recognizing the wider range of new scholarship, this eighth edition of Women's America includes some 23 new items, many on subjects new to these volumes, with enhanced coverage of women's transnational contacts and activities; sexual choices and dilemmas, including transsexuality; and women's lives in the West, the Midwest, and the South. Even more than all previous editions, Women's America gives fresh attention to the challenges of citizenship and its grounding in the law, now in global context. We have written a new, more succinct Introduction, reflection on the book's purposes and its readers' questions in the 32 years since Women's America was first published. We continue to offer an account of different stages in historians' inquiries into the history of women and gender in the United States. In it, we explain key terms and concepts, such as feminism, the social construction of gender, and intersectionality (the understanding that categories of difference, of race, ethnicity, class, able-bodiedness, sexual expression, culture, nationality, religion, and historical memory intersect and define one another). We give a few examples of how mainstream ideas about proper gender roles and women's and men's differing sexual drives have changed dramatically over the four centuries of US history. For example, today, sex (male/female) is increasingly seen as a spectrum. We stress that varied activism aimed at improving women's lives, expanding rights, and fulfilling goals of liberation occurred continuously throughout the nation's history -- and sometimes in unexpected places and ways. The introduction contains tips on using the book and a roadmap in terms of the book's major themes. Here and throughout the book, we invite students to join us in asking how we can find equality in an American society shaped, like all human societies, by differences (page [xix]).
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| 250 | |a Eighth edition. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part I. Early America, 1600-1820 : Gender Frontiers -- Kathleen M. Brown, The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier -- Jennifer L. Morgan, "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder:" European Depictions of Indigenous Women, 1492-1750 -- European Settlers: Gender Puzzles, Gender Rules -- Mary Beth Norton, An Indentured Servant Identifies as "Both Man and Woeman": Jamestown, 1629 -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Three Inventories, Three Households -- Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft -- Ann Little, Captivity and Conversion: Daughters of New England in French Canada -- DOCUMENTS: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 -- European Women and the Law: Examples from Colonial Connecticut -- Hidden Transcripts within Slavery: Judith A. Carney, The African Women Who Preceded Uncle Ben: Black Rice in Carolina -- Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemings-Jefferson Treaty: Paris, 1789 -- DOCUMENTS: Virginia Establishes a Double Standard in Tax Law -- "According to the condition of the mother . . ." -- "For the prevention of that abominable mixture . . ." -- A Massachusetts Minister's Slave Marriage Vows -- Living Through War and Revolution -- DOCUMENTS: Philadelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door -- Sarah Osborn, "The bullets would not cheat the gallows . . ." -- Rachel Wells, "I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney . . ." -- Grace Galloway, Loyalist -- Linda K. Kerber, Why Diamonds Really Are a Girl's Best Friend: The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part II. America's Many Frontiers, 1820-1880 : Workplace and Household Scenes -- Jeanne Boydston, The Pastoralization of Housework -- Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Mistresses in the Making -- Thavolia Glymph, Women in Slavery: The Gender of Violence -- DOCUMENTS: Eliza R. Hemmingway and Sarah Bagley, Testimony on Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845 -- Maria Perkins writes to her husband on the eve of being sold, 1854 -- Between Nations and On the Borders: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Public Mothers: Creole Mediators in the Northern Borderlands -- Maureen Fitzgerald, Habits of Compassion: Irish American Nuns in New York City -- Intimacy and Disciplining Bodies -- Sharon Block, Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic -- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America -- James C. Mohr, Abortion in America, 1800-1880 -- DOCUMENT: Comstock Act, 1873 -- Reforming Society -- Susan Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship: Debating Women's Anti-slavery Petitions -- Gerda Lerner, The Meaning of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998 -- Rose Stremlau, "I Know What an Indian Woman Can Do": Sarah Winnemucca Writes About Rape on the Northern Paiute Frontier -- DOCUMENTS: The Grimké Sisters, Sarah and Angelina, Talk Truth to Power -- Keziah Kendall protests coverture -- Ellen F. Watkins goes on the lecture circuit - Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 -- Married Women's Property Acts, New York State, 1848 and 1860 -- Sojourner Truth's Visiting Card, 1864 -- Photo Essay: Women in Public -- Civil War and Aftermath -- Stephanie McCurry, Women Numerous and Armed: Politics and Policy on the Confederate Home Front -- Tera W. Hunter, Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom -- DOCUMENTS: A.S. Hitchcock, "Young women particularly flock back & forth . . ." -- Roda Ann Childs, "I was more dead than alive" -- Reconstruction Amendments, 1868, 1870 -- Win Some, Lose Some: Women in Court: Coger v. The North Western Union Packet Company, Supreme Court of Iowa, 1873; Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873; Minor v. Happersett, 1874 -- The Women's Centennial Agenda, 1876 -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part III: Modern America Emerges, 1880-1920 : Gender and the Jim Crow South -- Glenda Gilmore, Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South -- Kim E. Nielsen, The Southern Identity of Helen Keller -- DOCUMENTS: Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors (with an introduction by Patricia A. Schechter) -- Mary McLeod Bethune, "How the Bethune-Cookman College Campus Started" -- Women in the West -- Peggy Pascoe, Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook of Oregon, Challenges Miscegenation Laws -- Judy Yung, Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco's Chinatown -- DOCUMENT: Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), " . . . this semblance of civilization . . ." -- Change Agents -- Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and Women's Activism in the Progressive Era -- Annelise Orleck, From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City -- DOCUMENTS: Pauline Newman, "We fought and we bled and we died . . ." -- Crystal Eastman, "Now We Can Begin" -- Empire and Internationalism -- Laura Wexler, A Lady Photojournalist Goes to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair -- Leila Rupp, Sexuality and Politics in the Early Twentieth-Century International Women's Movement -- Suffrage and Citizenship -- Ellen Carol Dubois, The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics -- DOCUMENTS: Chinese Exclusion: The Page Act and Its Aftermath -- Mackenzie v. Hare, 1915 -- Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920 -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part IV: Storms on Many Fronts, 1920-1945 : Sexuality and the Body: Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture -- Vicki L. Ruiz, The Flapper and the Chaperone: Mexican American Teenagers in the Southwest -- Cheryl D. Hicks, Mabel Hampton in Harlem: Regulating Black Women's Sexuality in the 1920s -- Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Reproduction and the Economy in the Great Depression -- DOCUMENT: Margaret Sanger, "I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception . . ." -- Photo Essay: Adorning the Body -- Labor and Activism -- Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South -- Devra Anne Weber, Mexican Women on Strike in 1933: The Structure of Memory -- Gendering the Nation-State -- Nancy F. Cott, Equal Rights and Economic Roles: The Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s -- Alice Kessler-Harris, Designing Women and Old Fools: Writing Gender into Social Security Law -- Blanche Wiesen Cook, Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights at Home and in Europe -- Women and War -- Valerie Matsumoto, Japanese American Women During World War II -- Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part V. A Transforming World, 1945-2014 : Cold War Heteronormativity -- Susan K. Cahn, "Mannishness," Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports -- Joyce Antler, Imagining Jewish Mothers in the 1950s -- Women's Cold War Activism -- Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America -- Michelle M. Nickerson, Politically Desperate Housewives in Southern California -- Danielle L. McGuire, Sexual Violence and the Long Civil Rights Movement -- DOCUMENTS: Betty Friedan, "The problem that has no name" -- Phyllis Schlafly, "The thoughts of one who loves life as a woman . . ." -- Rethinking Family and Sex -- Joanne Meyerowitz, Christine Jorgensen and The Story of How Sex Changed -- Beth L. Bailey, Prescribing the Pill: The Coming of the Sexual Revolution in America's Heartland -- Ji-Yeon Yuh, Korean Military Brides: Cooking American, Eating Korean -- Lisa Levenstein, Hard Choices at 1801 Vine: African American Women, Child Support, and Domestic Violence in Postwar Philadelphia -- DOCUMENTS: Kay Weiss, "With doctors like these for friends, who needs enemies?" -- Roe v. Wade, 1973; Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992; Carhart v. Gonzales, 2007; Recent Developments Rethinking Marriage: Loving v. Virginia, 1967; Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965; Defense of Marriage Act, 1996; Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2003; Recent Developments -- Gender and the Armed Forces -- Margot Canaday, "Finding a Home in the Army: Before 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'" -- Elizabeth L. Hillman, The Female Shape of the All-Volunteer Force -- DOCUMENTS: Goesaert v. Cleary, 1948 -- "We were the first American women sent to live and work in the midst of guerrilla warfare. . . ." -- Feminisms -- Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, The Women's Liberation Movement -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Vietnam War and Global Sisterhood -- DOCUMENTS: The Personal is Political -- Carol Hanisch, A Critique of the Miss America Protest, 1968 -- Jennie V. Chávez, Women of the Mexican American Movement, 1972 -- Editorial Staff of Rodan, Asian Women as Leaders, 1971 -- Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 -- DOCUMENTS: Gender Equality and the Law -- Hoyt v. Florida, 1961; Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975 -- Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964 -- Equal Rights Amendment, 1972 -- Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 -- Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973 -- Susan Eisenberg, An Electrician Among the Hard-Hatted Women -- Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986 -- Violence Against Women Act, 1994, 2000, 2005, 2013 -- Borders Among Us -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domésticas Demand Dignity -- Ashraf Zahedi, Muslim American Women After 9/11 -- DOCUMENTS: Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis, A Chief and Her People -- Hillary Clinton, "Women's Rights Are Human Rights," 1995 | |
| 520 | |a From the Preface. Twenty-seven years ago, writing the preface for the second edition of Women's America, we observed that in the few years since the first edition, "an extraordinary amount of new scholarship has appeared, changing the way in which professional historians address the major issues in the field... The pace of scholarly development is so rapid that comparisons can appropriately be made to scientific fields, which are expected to change overnight, rather than to the leisured pace of traditional history." That observation is even truer today, as the history of women in the United States reaches out to embrace changing understandings of gender and to engage comparisons with other national histories. Recognizing the wider range of new scholarship, this eighth edition of Women's America includes some 23 new items, many on subjects new to these volumes, with enhanced coverage of women's transnational contacts and activities; sexual choices and dilemmas, including transsexuality; and women's lives in the West, the Midwest, and the South. Even more than all previous editions, Women's America gives fresh attention to the challenges of citizenship and its grounding in the law, now in global context. We have written a new, more succinct Introduction, reflection on the book's purposes and its readers' questions in the 32 years since Women's America was first published. We continue to offer an account of different stages in historians' inquiries into the history of women and gender in the United States. In it, we explain key terms and concepts, such as feminism, the social construction of gender, and intersectionality (the understanding that categories of difference, of race, ethnicity, class, able-bodiedness, sexual expression, culture, nationality, religion, and historical memory intersect and define one another). We give a few examples of how mainstream ideas about proper gender roles and women's and men's differing sexual drives have changed dramatically over the four centuries of US history. For example, today, sex (male/female) is increasingly seen as a spectrum. We stress that varied activism aimed at improving women's lives, expanding rights, and fulfilling goals of liberation occurred continuously throughout the nation's history -- and sometimes in unexpected places and ways. The introduction contains tips on using the book and a roadmap in terms of the book's major themes. Here and throughout the book, we invite students to join us in asking how we can find equality in an American society shaped, like all human societies, by differences (page [xix]). | ||
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