Women and the American experience

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Woloch, Nancy, 1940-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : McGraw-Hill, [1994]
Edition:	Second edition.
Subjects:	Women > United States > History. Women. Gender identity.

Table of Contents:

1. Mary Rowlandson's captivity
2. The seventeenth century: a frontier sociey
3. Eliza Pinckney and Republican motherhood
4. The eighteenth century: the eve of modernity
5. Sarah Hale and the ladies magazine
6. Promoting woman's sphere, 1800-1860
7. Frances Wright at Nashoba
8. Benevolence, reform, and slavery, 1800-1860
9. The shirtwaist strike of 1909
10. Women at work, 1860-1920
11. The founding of hull-house
12. The rise of the new woman, 1860-1920
13. The crisis of the NWSA
14. Feminism and suffrage, 1860-1920
15. Direct action: Margaret Sanger's crusade
16. Cross-currents: the 1920s
17. Humanizing the New Deal, 1933
18. Emergencies: the 1930s and 1940s
19. Turning points: the early 1960s
20. High expectations: 1950-1975
21. The Thomas Hearings: responses to Anita Hill, 1991
22. In search of equality: since 1975.