Womens America : refocusing the past INTRODUCTION: Gender and the new womens history Jane Sherron De Hart and Linda K. Kerber I. TRADITIONAL AMERICA 1600 1820 : Creating a blended household: Christian Indian women and English domestic life in Colonial Massachusetts Ann Marie Plane This evil extends especially...to the feminine sex : Negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands James F. Brooks The ways of her household Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Document: The law of domestic relations: Marriage divorce dower African American women in colonial society Carol Berkin Documents: The law of slavery Searchers again assembled : Gender distinctions in seventeenth century America Mary Beth Norton Document: The trial of Anne Hutchinson 1637 The devil in the shape of a woman: The economic basis of witchcraft Carol F. Karlsen Taking the trade: abortion and gender relations in an eighteenth century New England village Cornelia Hughes Dayton Documents: Supporting the Revolution The republican mother and the woman citizen: contradictions and choices in Revolutionary America Linda K. Kerber. II. THE MANY FRONTIERS OF INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA 1820 1900 : Documents: The testimony of slave women Lines of color sex and service: sexual coercion in the early republic Sharon Block Womens work: the gender division of labor in yeoman households of South Carolina before the Civil War Stephanie McCurry The pastoralization of housework Jeanne Boydston Document: Working conditions in early factories 1845 The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth century America Carroll Smith Rosenberg Abortion in America James C. Mohr Documents: Claiming rights I The Seneca Falls womens rights convention: a study of social networks Judith Wellman Documents: Claiming rights II Sojourner Truths defense of the rights of women Nell Irvin Painter Enemies in our households: Confederate women and slavery Drew Gilpin Faust Documents: Counterfeit freedom Reconstruction and the meanings of freedom Tera W. Hunter Documents: After the Civil War: reconsidering the law Reading Little Women: the many lives of a text Barbara Sicherman Document: The womens centennial agenda 1876 Ida B. Wells and Southern Horrors Patricia A. Schechter Ophelia Paquet a Tillamook Indian wife: miscegenation laws and the privileges of property Peggy Pascoe Documents: Claiming an education Forging interracial links in the Jim Crow South Glenda Gilmore III. CREATING THE STATE IN AN INDUSTRIALIZED NATION 1900 1945 : Rape and the inner lives of Black women Darlene Clark Hine Unbound feet: from China to San Franciscos Chinatown Judy Yung From the Russian pale to labor organizing in New York City Annalise Orleck Florence Kelley and womens activism in the Progressive Era Kathryn Kish Sklar Documents: Protecting women wage workers Orphans and ethnic division in Arizona: the Mexican mothers and the Mexican town Linda Gordon The next generation of suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and grassroots politics Ellen Carol DuBois Documents: Dimensions of citizenship I Equal rights and economic roles: the conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s Nancy F. Cott Fasting girls: the emerging ideal of slenderness in American culture Joan Jacobs Brumberg The Industrial Revolution in the home: household technology and social change in the twentieth century Ruth Schwartz Cowan Disorderly women: gender and labor militancy in the Appalachian South Jacquelyn Dowd Hall When abortion was a crime: reproduction and the economy in the Great Depression Leslie J. Reagan Harder times: the Great Depression Jacqueline Jones Document: Struggling to unionize Designing women and old fools: writing gender into social security law Alice Kessler Harris Storms on every front: Eleanor Roosevelt and human rights in Europe Blanche Wiesen Cook Life interrupted: a young refugee arrives in America Gerda Lerner Japanese American women during World War II Valerie Matsumoto Gender at work: the sexual division of labor during World War II Ruth Milkman IV. STRUGGLES AGAINST INJUSTICE 1945 2000 : Betty Friedan and the origins of feminism in cold war America Daniel Horowitz Neighborhood women and grassroots human rights Gerda Lerner Miriam Van Waters and the burning of letters Estelle Freedman Mannishness lesbianism and homophobia in U.S. womens sports Susan K. Cahn Ladies day at the Capitol: women strike for peace versus HUAC Amy Swerdlow A womans war: African American women in the Civil Rights Movement Charles Payne Documents: Dimensions of citizenship II A human right to welfare social protest among women welfare recipients after World War II Felicia Kornbluh Prescribing the pill: the coming of the sexual revolution in Americas heartland Beth L. Bailey Why the Shirelles mattered: girl groups on the cusp of a feminist awakening Susan J. Douglas Documents: Making the personal political Second wave feminists and the dynamics of social change Jane Sherron De Hart Documents: Dimensions of citizenship III: Equal Rights Amendment 1972 Documents: Dimensions of citizenship IV Women in the Gulf War Linda Bird Francke Documents: The changing workplace Material Girl : Madonna as postmodern heroine Susan Bordo Documents: Rethinking marriage in the late twentieth century Sexual harassment on trial: The Anita Hill Clarence Thomas narrative(s) Robin Tolmach Lakoff Inscriptions of poverty on the female body in the era of welfare reform Vivyan C. Adair Sweatshops here and there: the garment industry Latinas and labor migrations Carmen Teresa Whalen Thirty years after Roe: the continued assault on a womans right to choose Jane Sherron De Hart and Carolyn Herbst Lewis Women and global citizenship Sara Evans