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Women and the American Experience, 5/e

Nancy Woloch, Barnard College - Columbia University

1. Mary Rowland's Captivity

2. 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

3. Eliza Pinckney and Republican Motherhood

4. 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

5. Sarah Hale and the Ladies Magazine

6. 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

7. The Grimke Sisters Assail Slavery: The 1830s

8. 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

9. The Shirtwaist Strike of 1909

10. 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

11. The Founding of Hull House

12. 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

13. The Crisis of the NWSA

14. Feminism and Suffrage
       An Independent Suffrage Movement
       Finding a Constituency
       The Argument over Suffrage
       Voices on the Left
       Peace, War, and the Women's Party
       Women and the Vote
       Suggested Readings and Sources

15. Direct Action: Margaret Sanger's Crusade

16. 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

17. Humanizing the New Deal, 1933

18. 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

19. Turning Points: The Early 1960s

20. 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

21. The Thomas Hearings: Responses to Anita Hill, 1991

22. In Search of Equality: Since 1975
       Feminism and Stalemate
       Women in the Workplace
       Families in Transition
       Immigration, Ethnicity, and Diversity
       The Gender Gap
       Women and the Law
       Suggested Readings and Sources

23. Equal Pay for Equal Work: Lilly Ledbetter, 2007-2009

24. Recent Times: The Twenty-First Century
       A Multi-Cultural Society
       Domestic Lives
       Educational Frontiers
       The Global Marketplace
       Politics, Public Policy, and Polarization
       Looking Forward
       Suggested Readings and Sources

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