Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents (Fifth Edition)

About this Book
	Cover Page
	Inside Front Cover
	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	Preface
	Brief Contents
	Contents
	Special Features
	Introduction for Students
	Half Title Page
Chapter 1 America in the World TO 1650
	Native American Women
		Indigenous Peoples before 1492
		The Pueblo Peoples
		Reading into the Past: Two Sisters and Acoma Origins
		The Iroquois Confederacy
		Native Women’s Worlds
	Europeans Arrive
		Early Spanish Expansion
		Spain’s Northern Frontier
		Fish and Furs in the North
		Early British Settlements
	African Women and the Atlantic Slave Trade
		Women in West Africa
		The Early Slave Trade
		Racializing Slavery
		African Slavery in the Americas
	Conclusion: Many Beginnings
	Chapter 1 Review
	Primary Sources: European Images of Native American Women
	Suggested References
Chapter 2 Colonial Worlds, 1607–1750
	A Native New World
	Southern British Colonies
		British Women in the Southern Colonies
		African Women
	Northern British Colonies
		The Puritan Search for Order: The Family and the Law
		Disorderly Women
		Reading into the Past: Trial of Anne Hutchinson
		Women’s Work and Consumption Patterns
		Dissenters from Dissenters: Women in Pennsylvania
		Reading into the Past: Jane Fenn Hoskens, Quaker Preacher
	Beyond the British Settler Colonies
		New Netherland
		New France
		New Spain
		Native Grounds of the North American Interior
	Conclusion: The Diversity of American Women
	Chapter 2 Review
	Primary Sources: By and About Colonial Women
		Laws on Women and Slavery
		Legal Proceedings
		Newspaper Advertisements
		Letters
	Primary Sources: Depictions of “Family” in Colonial America
	Suggested References
Chapter 3 Mothers and Daughters of the Revolution, 1750–1810
	Background to Revolution, 1754–1775
		Social Change in the Eighteenth Century
		The Growing Confrontation
		Liberty’s Daughters: Women and the Emerging Crisis
		Reading into the Past: Hannah Griffitts, The Female Patriots, Address’d to the Daughters of Liberty in America
	Women and the Face of War, 1775–1783
		Choosing Sides: Native American and African American Women
		White Women: Pacifists, Tories, and Patriots
		Maintaining the Troops: The Women Who Served
	Revolutionary Era Legacies
		A Changing World for Native American Women
		African American Women: Freedom and Slavery
		Reading into the Past: Ona Judge’s Escape
		White Women: An Ambiguous Legacy
		Limited Citizenship: White Women’s Legal Status and Education
		Women and Religion
	Conclusion: To the Margins of Political Action
	Chapter 3 Review
	Primary Sources: Gendering Images of the Revolution
	Primary Sources: Phillis Wheatley, Poet and Slave
		Letters
		Poems
	Primary Sources: Education and Republican Motherhood
		“A Peculiar Mode of Education”
		“All that Independence Which is Proper to Humanity”
	Suggested References
Chapter 4 Pedestal, Loom, and Auction Block, 1800–1860
	The Ideology of True Womanhood
		Christian Motherhood
		Reading into the Past: Catharine Beecher, The Peculiar Responsibilities of the American Woman
		A Middle-Class Ideology
		Domesticity in a Market Age
	Women and Wage Earning
		From Market Revolution to Industrial Revolution
		The Mill Girls of Lowell
		The End of the Lowell Idyll
		At the Bottom of the Wage Economy
	Women, Slavery, and the South
		Southern Native Americans and U.S. Removal Policy
		Reading into the Past: Beloved Children: Cherokee Women Petition the National Council
		Plantation Patriarchy
		Plantation Mistresses
		Non-elite White Women
		Enslaved Women
		Reading into the Past: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Slavery a Curse to Any Land
	Conclusion: True Womanhood and the Reality of Women’s Lives
	Chapter 4 Review
	Primary Sources: Prostitution in New York City, 1858
	Primary Sources: Mothering under Slavery
		A South Carolina Domestic Medicine Manual
		FWP Interview
		Photographs
		Advertisements for Wet Nurses
		Antebellum Slave Narrative
	Primary Sources: Godey’s Lady’s Book
	Primary Sources: Early Photographs of Factory Operatives and Slave Women
	Suggested References
Chapter 5 Shifting Boundaries
	An Expanding Nation, 1843–1861
		Overland by Trail
		The Underside of Expansion: Native Women and Californianas
		Reading Into the Past: Narrative of Mrs. Rosalía Leese, Who Witnessed the Hoisting of the Bear Flag in Sonoma on the 14th of June, 1846
		The Gold Rush
	Antebellum Reform
		Expanding Woman’s Sphere: Maternal, Moral, and Temperance Reform
		Exploring New Territory: Radical Reform in Family and Sexual Life
		Crossing Political Boundaries: Abolitionism
		Entering New Territory: Women’s Rights
		Reading Into the Past: Sojourner Truth, I Am as Strong as Any Man
	Civil War, 1861–1865
		Women and the Impending Crisis
		Women’s Involvement in the War
		Emancipation
	Conclusion: Reshaping Boundaries, Redefining Womanhood
	Chapter 5 Review
	Primary Sources: Female Labor in the Gold-Rush Economy
		Family Economies and Women’s Domestic Work
		Luzena Stanley Wilson’49er
		Nancy Gooch Reunites Her Family in California
		Barbara Longknife Writes Home to Indian Country from the Goldfields
		Enslavement and Apprenticeship of California Indian Women and Girls
		A Yuki Girl’s Contested Apprenticeship
	Primary Sources: Women’s Rights Partnership: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the 1850s and 1860s
	Primary Sources: Women on the Civil War Battlefields
	Suggested References
Chapter 6 Reconstructing Women’s Lives North and South
	Gender and the Postwar Constitutional Amendments
		Constitutionalizing Women’s Rights
		A New Departure for Woman Suffrage
	Women’s Lives in Southern Reconstruction and Redemption
		Black Women in the New South
		White Women in the New South
		Racial Conflict in Slavery’s Aftermath
		Reading Into the Past: Mary Tape, “What Right Have You?”
	Female Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism
		Women’s Occupations after the Civil War
		Who Were the Women Wage Earners?
		Responses to Working Women
		Class Conflict and Labor Organization
		Reading Into the Past: Leonora Barry, Women in the Knights of Labor
	Women of the Leisured Classes
		New Sources of Wealth and Leisure
		The “Woman’s Era”
		The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
		Consolidating the Gilded Age Women’s Movement
		Looking to the Future
	Conclusion: Toward a New Womanhood
	Chapter 6 Review
	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
	Suggested References
Chapter 7 Women in an Expanding Nation
	Consolidating the West
		Native Women in the West
		Colonial Settler Families in the West
		The “Wild West”
	Late Nineteenth-Century Immigration
		The Decision to Immigrate
		Reading Into the Past: Emma Goldman, Living My Life
		The Immigrant’s Journey
		Reception of the Immigrants
		Immigrant Daughters
		Immigrant Wives and Mothers
	Century’s End: Challenges, Conflict, and Imperial Ventures
		Rural Protest, Populism, and the Battle for Woman Suffrage
		Class Conflict and the Pullman Strike of 1894
		The Settlement House Movement
		Epilogue to the Crisis: The Spanish-American War of 1898
		Reading Into the Past: Clemencia Lopez, Women of the Philippines
	Conclusion: Nationhood and Womanhood on the Eve of a New Century
	Chapter 7 Review
	Primary Sources: Representing Native American Women in the Late Nineteenth Century
		Popular Culture Images
		The Words of Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute Activist
	Primary Sources: Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House
	Primary Sources: Jacob Riis’s Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Women
	Suggested References
Chapter 8 Power and Politics
	The Female Labor Force
		Continuity and Change for Women Wage Earners
		Organizing Women Workers: The Women’s Trade Union League
		The Rising of the Women
	The Female Dominion
		Public Housekeeping
		Maternalist Triumphs: Protective Labor Legislation and Mothers’ Pensions
		Maternalist Defeat: The Struggle to Ban Child Labor
		Progressive Women and Political Parties
		Outside the Dominion: Progressivism and Race
	Votes for Women
		A New Generation for Suffrage
		Diversity in the Woman Suffrage Movement
		Returning to the Constitution: The National Suffrage Movement
	The Emergence of Feminism
		The Feminist Program
		The Birth Control Movement
		Reading Into the Past: Margaret Sanger, Woman and Birth Control
	The Great War, 1914–1918
		Pacifist and Antiwar Women
		Preparedness and Patriotism
		The Great Migration
		Reading Into the Past: African American Women Write about the Great Migration
		Winning Woman Suffrage
	Conclusion: New Conditions, New Challenges
	Chapter 8 Review
	Primary Sources: Black Women and Progressive-Era Reform
		Black Women’s Club Life
		Protesting Racial Discrimination and Violence
		Negro Women Hold Humiliation Service
		Black Women and the Suffrage
		International Peace 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
	Suggested References
Chapter 9 Change and Continuity
	Prosperity Decade: The 1920s
		The New Woman in Politics
		Women at Work
		The New Woman in the Home
	Depression Decade: The 1930s
		At Home in Hard Times
		Women and Work
		Women’s New Deal
		Reading Into the Past: Mary Mcleod Bethune, Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940)
		Reading Into the Past: Genora Johnson Dollinger and the General Motors Sit-Down Strike (1936–37)
	Working for Victory: Women and War, 1941–1945
		Women in the Military
		Working Women in Wartime
		War and Everyday Life
	Conclusion: The New Woman in Ideal and Reality
	Chapter 9 Review
	Primary Sources: Women’s Lobbying in the 1920s
	Primary Sources: Beauty Culture between the Wars
	Primary Sources: Dorothea Lange Photographs Farm Women of the Great Depression
	Primary Sources: Voices of “Rosie the Riveter”
		Hortense Johnson
		Beatrice Morales
		Sylvia R. Weissbordt, U.S. Women’s Bureau
	Suggested References
Chapter 10 Beyond the Feminine Mystique
	Family Culture and Gender ROLES
		The New Affluence and the Family
		The Cold War and the Family
		Rethinking the Feminine Mystique
		Women and Work
	Women’s Activism in Conservative Times
		Working-Class Women and Unions
		Middle-Class Women and Voluntary Associations
	A Mass Movement for Civil Rights
		Challenging Segregation
		Women as “Bridge Leaders”
		Voter Registration and Freedom Summer
		Sexism in the Movement
		Reading Into the Past: Casey Hayden and Mary King, Women in the Movement
		A Widening Circle of Civil Rights Activists
	Women and Public Policy
		The Continuing Battle over the ERA
		A Turning Point: The President’s Commission on the Status of Women
		Reading Into the Past: Esther Peterson and the President’s Commission on the Status of Women
	Conclusion: The Limits of the Feminine Mystique
	Chapter 10 Review
	Primary Sources: Television’s Prescriptions for Women
	Primary Sources: “Is a Working Mother a Threat to the Home?”
	Primary Sources: Women in the Civil Rights Movement
	Suggested References
Chapter 11 Modern Feminism and American Society
	Roots of Sixties Feminism
		The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
		Now and Liberal Feminism
		Reading Into the Past: National Organization for Women, Women’s Bill of Rights
	Women’s Liberation and the Sixties Revolutions
		Sexual Revolution and Counterculture
		Black Power and SNCC
		The War in Vietnam and SDS
	Ideas and Practices of Women’s Liberation
		Consciousness-Raising
		Lesbianism And Sexual Politics
		Radical Feminist Theory
	Diversity, Race, and Feminism
		African American Women
		Latina Activism
		Asian American Women
		Native American Women
		Reading Into the Past: Forced Sterilization
		Women of Color
	The Impact of Feminism
		Challenging Discrimination in the Workplace
		Equality in Education
		Women’s Autonomy over Their Bodies
	Changing Public Policy and Public Consciousness
		Women in Party Politics
		The Reemergence of the ERA
		Feminism Enters the Mainstream
	Conclusion: Feminism’s Legacy
	Chapter 11 Review
	Primary Sources: Feminism and the Drive for Equality in the Workplace
	Primary Sources: Women’s Liberation
	Suggested References
Chapter 12 U.S. Women in a Global Age
	Feminism and the New Right
		The STOP-ERA Campaign
		Reading Into the Past: Phyllis Schlafly, What’s Wrong with “Equal Rights” for Women?
		The Abortion Wars
		Antifeminism Diffuses through the Culture
	Feminism After the Second Wave
		Third-Wave Feminism
		Women Stand Up to Violence
		Ecofeminism
		Reading Into the Past: Ladonna Brave Bull Allard, The Meaning of the Standing Rock Protests
		Peace Activism
	Women and Politics
		The 1980s: Carter and Reagan
		Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas
		The Clinton Years
		George W. Bush
		The Election of 2008: A Historic Presidential Choice
		The Obama Years
		The Long War on Terror
		The Election of 2016
		Reading Into the Past: Ilhan Omar, First Muslim Somali American Lawmaker
	Women’s Lives in Modern America and the World
		Inequalities — Old and New — in the Labor Force
		Combating Discrimination
	Changes in Family and Sexuality
		Changing Marriage Patterns
		Parenting
		Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights
		Women and the New Immigration
	Conclusion: Women in the Twenty-First Century
	Chapter 12 Review
	Primary Sources: Gender and the Military
	Suggested References
Appendix
	Documents
	Tables and Charts
Acknowledgments
Notes
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