LEADER 00000cam a22004694a 4500 001 ocm52312023 005 20040421142429.0 008 030408t20032003nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 2003051011 020 0060185104 035 (OCoLC)ocm52312023 035 375421 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|dC#P|dVVC 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 RIDM 050 00 HQ1410|b.C588 2003 082 00 305.4/0973|221 090 HQ1410 .C588 2003 100 1 Collins, Gail.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n90632635 245 10 America's women :|bfour hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines /|cGail Collins. 250 1st ed. 264 1 New York :|bWilliam Morrow,|c[2003] 264 4 |c©2003 300 xvii, 556 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-540) and index. 505 0 The first colonists: voluntary and otherwise -- The women of New England: goodwives, heretics, Indian captives, and witches -- Daily life in the colonies: housekeeping, children, and sex -- Toward the revolutionary war -- 1800- 1860: true women, separate spheres, and many emergencies - - Life before the civil war: cleanliness and corsetry -- African American women: life in bondage -- Women and abolition: white and Black, north and south -- The civil war: nurses, wives, spies, and secret soldiers -- Women go west: pioneers, homesteaders, and the fair but frail -- The gilded age: stunts, shorthand, and study clubs -- Immigrants: discovering the "woman's country" -- Turn of the century: the arrival of the new woman -- Reforming the world: suffrage, temperance, and other causes -- The twenties: all the liberty you can use in the backseat of a Packard -- The Depression: Ma Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt -- World War II: "she's making history, working for victory" -- The fifties: life at the far end of the pendulum -- The sixties: the pendulum swings back with a vengeance. 650 0 Women|zUnited States|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2010118664 650 7 Women.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Women.|2homoit|0https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0001509 650 7 Womyn.|2homoit|0https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0001516 651 7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155 901 MARCIVE 20231220 935 375421 994 E0|bRID
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