Title: Major problems in American women's history : documents and essays /
Authors: Norton, Mary Beth; Alexander, Ruth M., 1954-
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Women United States History; Women United States History Sources.; Feminism United States History.; Feminism United States History Sources
Contents: Approaches to American women's history -- Native American women -- Witches and their accusers in seventeenth-century New England -- The economic roles of early American women -- The impact of the American Revolution -- Women's activism in the early republic -- African American women and slavery -- White women in the Civil War crisis -- Women in the trans-Mississippi frontier west -- Women's work and work cultures in modern America, 1890-1920s -- The "new woman" in public life and politics, 1900-1930 -- Women in America during the Great Depression and New Deal -- Women and the disputed meanings of gender, race, and sexuality during World War II -- Women and the feminine ideal in post-war America -- Second wave in feminism in America, 1960-1990 -- Women, social change, and reaction from the 1990s to the new millennium.