Women, Families, and Communities Readings in American History to 1877

Volume I: INTRODUCTION. PEOPLING THE NEW WORLD. No Obey: Indian, European, and African Women in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, Suzanne Lebsock. The Salem Village Cataclysm: Origins and Impact of a Witch-Hunt, Lyle Koehler. Sisters, Wives, and Mothers: Self-Portraits of Three Eighteenth-Century Women, Anne Firor Scott. BIRTH OF A NATION. Politicizing the Household: Sacrifice and Survival During the American Revolution, Linda Kerber. On the Importance of the Obstetrick Art: Changing Customs of Childbirth in America, 1760-1825, Catharine M. Scholten. The Modernization of Greenleaf and Abigail Patch: Land, Family, and Marginality in the New Republic, Paul Johnson. REMAKING SOCIETY. Building a Community of Labor: Women, Work, and Protest in Lowell, Thomas Dublin. Beauty, the Beast, and the Militant Woman: Sex Roles and Sexual Standards in Jacksonian America, Carroll Smith Rosenberg. Womens Antislavery Activism in Rochester, New York, Nancy A. Hewitt. EXPANSION AND DIVISION. Domesticating the Natives: Southern Indians and the Cult of True Womanhood, Theda Perdue. Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Social Status in the Antebellum Plantation South, Deborah G. White. The Midwestern Farm Family at Mid-century, John Mack Faragher. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION. A Passion for Efficiency: The Work of the United States Sanitary Commission, Lori D. Ginzberg. Freed Women? The Civil War and Reconstruction, Jacqueline Jones. A Statistical Portrait, Appendix: Ruth Milkman. VOLUME II: RECONSTRUCTING THE NATION. Freed Women? The Civil War and Reconstruction, Jacqueline Jones. The Girls from Syracuse: Kansas Women in Politics, 1887-1890, Rosalind Urbach Moss. The Transformation of a Laboring Community: Mechanization and the Mobilization of Women Weavers, Susan Levine. Farmers Wives and the New South: Women in the Southern Farmers Alliance, Julie Roy Jeffrey. PROGRESS AND ITS DISCONTENTS. Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers, Kathryn Kish Sklar. Immigrant Women, Community Networks, and Consumer Protest: The New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902, Paula Hyman. A Gulf of Distance, Mistrust, and Suspicion, A Common Bond of Womanhood?: Building Interracial Community in the Jim Crow South, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. THE CRITICAL DECADES. Transforming Hispanic Communities: World War I and Americanization in the Southwest, Sarah Deutsch. The Roaring Teens and Twenties Reexamined: Sexuality in the Furnished Room Districts of Chicago, Joanne Meyerowitz. Two Washes in the Morning and a Bridge Party at Night: Consumer Culture and the American Housewife Between the Wars, Ruth Schwartz Cowan. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II. Women of the Depression: Anglo, Black, and Hispanic Families in San Antonio, Julia Kirk Blackwelder. The Home Front and the Household: Women, Work, and Family in Detroit, Alan Clive. POSTWAR SOCIETY. From Rosy to Lucy: The Mass Media and Changing Images of Women and Family, James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle. The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, David J. Garrow. Embattled Women: The Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in Illinois, Jane J. Mansbridge. A Statistical Portrait, Appendix: Ruth Milkman.Hewitt, Nancy A. is the author of 'Women, Families, and Communities Readings in American History to 1877', published 1997 under ISBN 9780673188595 and ISBN 0673188590.