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1 online resource (464 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Colonial Encounters and Communities; Examination of Anne Hutchinson; Church Trial and Excommunication of Ann Hibbens; Ordinary Dealings at Colonial County Courts; Case of Sarah Taylor, Indentured Servant; Statutes on Slave Descent; Susanna Martin, on Trial for Witchcraft; Carolina Women Observed; A Rape on the Body of Anne Eastworthy; A Law for Regulating Midwives; II. Transitions to a New Republic; Sarah Osborn's Religious Conversion; Query to the Philadelphia Baptist Association; Sarah Harlan's Will |
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Letter from an Indentured ServantDiary of Mary Cooper; Moll Placket-Hole; Abigail Adams's Letters from the Home Front; An Adolescent's Wartime Diary; Learning by Doing Women's Work; A Father's Advice to His Daughter; Eliza Southgate Reflects on the Sexes; Petition on Behalf of Fanny, a Slave Woman; Women's Work in the Market Economy; III. Woman's Sphere and Women's Employments; Maria Stewart Sees Chains on the Soul; Striking Tailoresses Speak; Sarah Grimke on the Condition of Women in the United States; The Legal Rights and Wrongs of Women |
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The Peculiar Responsibilities, and Difficulties, of American Women""Sweethearts and Wives"": A Story from Godey's Lady's Book; A Parlor Ballad; Margaret McCarthy Writes Home; Petition for a Ten-Hour Workday; Domestic Management in the Letters of Martha Coffin Wright; A New York Woman on a North Carolina Plantation; IV. Women and the National Mission; Cherokee Women Address Their Nation; Missionary to Indian Territory; Eulalia Perez in Mexican California; Reaching Oregon; A Moral Reformer Makes Her Rounds; An Afternoon Call; A Daughter of Temperance Exhorts Her Sex |
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Planting Catholic Schools in North AmericaSince We Came to America; Iron Teeth (Mah-i-TĩWo-Nee-Ni) Remembers the Cheyenne Removal; The Great Indignation Meeting; V. Slavery, War, and Emancipation; James Curry's Mother; Virginia Ladies' Petition to Eliminate Slavery; An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, by Angelina Grimke; Narratives of Escaped Slaves; Sarah Parker Remond on American Slavery; A Slave Writes to Her Former Mistress; Louisa McCord on Enfranchisement of Woman; Union Women in Wartime; Gertrude Clanton Thomas's Civil War Diary |
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A Freedwoman before the Southern Claims CommissionThe Race Problem-An Autobiography; VI. Health, Medicine, and Sexuality; On Female Health in America; Lucy Thurston's Surgical Operation; The Murders of Marriage, by Mary Gove Nichols; Testimony as to the Insanity of Elizabeth Packard; Abortion in New York; A Fox Woman Comes of Age; The Working Girls of Boston; Sex in Education, by Dr. Edward H. Clarke; Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi on Female Invalidism; Effeminate Men, Masculine Women; The Story of Aunt Easter; VII. Women's Work in an Industrial Age; Have Been Busy All Day |
| Summary |
A thoroughly revised edition of the classic text in American women's social history |
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The Sweating System, Charity, and Organization |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- Sources
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- Sources
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Women
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Women -- Social conditions
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Boydson, Jeanne
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Braude, Ann
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Ginzberg, Lori D
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| ISBN |
9781555538699 |
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155553869X |
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