Women's America
Title | Women's America PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Feminism |
ISBN | 9780195029826 |
America's Women
Title | America's Women PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Collins |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 602 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0061739227 |
Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today, she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat. In some periods, women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades—to colonize the nation, pioneer the West, and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between, economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home, confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman’s experience, Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America
Title | Women and the Historical Enterprise in America PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Des Jardins |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807854754 |
Looks at the works of women historians, from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II, and their impact on the social and cultural history of the United States.
A History of Women in America
Title | A History of Women in America PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Coryell |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Higher Education |
Pages | 579 |
Release | 2011-02-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0077484991 |
Remember the Ladies
Title | Remember the Ladies PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Grant De Pauw |
Publisher | New York : Viking Press |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Women's Letters
Title | Women's Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Grunwald |
Publisher | Dial Press Trade Paperback |
Pages | 833 |
Release | 2009-01-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0307493334 |
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Women of the Republic
Title | Women of the Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Linda K. Kerber |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2000-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807899844 |
Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. "I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government," wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right. Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric were recognized. How much liberty and equality for women? How much pursuit of happiness? How much justice? When American political theory failed to define a program for the participation of women in the public arena, women themselves had to develop an ideology of female patriotism. They promoted the notion that women could guarantee the continuing health of the republic by nurturing public-spirited sons and husbands. This limited ideology of "Republican Motherhood" is a measure of the political and social conservatism of the Revolution. The subsequent history of women in America is the story of women's efforts to accomplish for themselves what the Revolution did not.