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Women and the American Experience Concise, 2/e
Nancy Woloch, Barnard College

    Chapter 1: The Seventeenth Century: A Frontier Society
      A Necessary Good
      Housewifery and Trade
      Servants and Slaves
      Native American Women
      Prophets and Saints
      Invisible Furies
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 2: The Eighteenth Century: The Eve of Modernity
      Wives and Widows
      Character and Capacity
      Legal Institutions
      Diversity of Cultures
      The Cradle of the Revolution
      The Pursuit of Happiness
      Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 3: Promoting Woman's Sphere, 1800-1860
      The Home and the World
      Piety and Purity
      Academy and Common School
      Readers and Authors
      Factory and Mill
      City and Frontier
      White Women in the Antebellum South
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 4: Benevolence, Reform, and Slavery, 1800-1860
      Origins of Association
      Moral Reform
      Women in Slavery
      Abolition and the Woman Question
      Communitarian Alternatives and Legal Rights
      The Women's Rights Movement
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 5: Women at Work, 1860-1920
      Civil War and Women's Work
      The Black Experience
      The Trans-Mississippi West
      Immigrants, Cities, and Working Girls
      Women in Industry
      The Union Experience
      Office, Store, and Classroom
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 6: The Rise of the New Woman, 1860-1920
      Shrinking Families
      The College Woman
      The Professional Woman
      Clubwomen and Crusaders
      Educated Homemakers
      Social Housekeepers
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 7: Feminism and Suffrage, 1860-1920
      An Independent Suffrage Movement
      Finding a Constituency
      The Argument Over Suffrage
      Voices on the Left
      Peace, War, and the Woman's Party
      Women and the Vote
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 8: Cross-Currents: The 1920s
      Feminists in Conflict
      Aspiration and Career
      Migrants and Immigrants
      The New Morality
      "Pals" and "Partners"
      Companions and Consumers
      Contraceptive Politics
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 9: Emergencies: The 1930s and 1940s
      Depression Families
      Working Women
      Women's New Deal
      "Front Page Woman"
      The Impact of World War II
      Postwar Prospects
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 10: High Expectations: 1950-1975
      Suburban Housewives
      Working Mothers
      Mixed Signals
      Black Women in Postwar America
      Civil Rights and Women's Liberation
      Legitimizing Feminism
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Chapter 11: In Search of Equality: Since 1975
      Feminism at Stalemate
      Women in the Workplace
      Families in Transition
      Immigration, Ethnicity, and Diversity
      The Gender Gap
      Women and the Law
      Suggested Readings and Sources
    Index








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