Through women's eyes
Subtitle: an American history with documents
By: Ellen Carol DuBois, Lynn Dumenil
Contributors: Dumenil, Lynn, 1950- author
Edition: Fourth edition
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 717
ISBN-13: 9781319049133; 9781319003128
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Women; History; Feminism
Description: Presents a narrative of U.S. women's history within the context of the central developments of the United States, integrating written and visual primary sources into each chapter.

This volume presents a survey of U.S. women's history with an inclusive and diverse narrative delivered with primary documents, visual sources, and essays. It focuses on women from a broad range of ethnicities, classes, religions, and regions and helps readers to understand how women and women's history are an integral part of U.S. history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: America in the world, to 1650 -- -- 2.; title: Colonial worlds, 1607-1750 -- -- 3.; title: Mothers and daughters of the Revolution, 1750-1800 -- -- 4.; title: Pedestal, loom, and auction block, 1800-1860 -- -- 5.; title: Shifting boundaries: expansion, reform, and Civil War, 1840-1865 -- -- 6.; title: Reconstructing women's lives North and South, 1865-1900 -- -- 7.; title: Women in an expanding nation: consolidation of the West, mass immigration, and the crisis of the 1890s -- -- 8.; title: Power and politics: women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 -- -- 9.; title: Change and continuity: women in prosperity, Depression, and war, 1920-1945 -- -- 10.; title: Beyond the feminine mystique: women's lives, 1945-1965 -- -- 11.; title: Modern feminism and American society, 1965-1980 -- -- 12.; title: U.S. women in a global age, 1980-present.