| Description |
xvi, 473 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-462) and index. |
| Contents |
Beyond the search for sisterhood : American women's history in the 1980's -- Pocahontas perplex : the image of Indian women in American culture -- Female slaves : sex roles and status in the antebellum plantation South -- Widowed women of Santa Fe : assessments on the lives of an unmarried population, 1850-1880 -- Native American women and agriculture : a Seneca case study -- Domestication of politics : women and American political society, 1780-1920 -- Women, children, and the uses of the streets : class and gender conflict in New York City, 1850-1860 -- Hull House in the 1890's : a community of women reformers -- Gender systems in conflict : the marriages of mission-educated Chinese American women, 1847-1939 -- Family violence, feminism, and social control -- "Charity girls" and city pleasures : historical notes on working-class sexuality, 1880-1920 -- I had been hungary all the years. |
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Working women, class relations, and suffrage militance : Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York woman suffrage movement, 1894-1909 -- Social awakening of Chinese American women as reported in Chung Sai Yat Po, 1900-1911 -- Womanist consciousness : Maggie Lena Walker and the Indepdendent Order of Saint Luke -- Educating Indian girls at nonreservation boarding schools, 1878-1920 -- "It jus be's dat way sometime" : the sexual politics of women's blues -- "Go after the women" : Americanization and the Mexican immigrant woman, 1915-1929 -- Promise fulfilled : Mexican cannery workers in Southen California -- Historical problem of the family wage : the Ford Motor Comany and the five dollar day -- Rape and the inner lives of black women in the Middle West : preliminary thoughts on the culture of dissemblance -- Disorderly women : gender and labor militancy in the Appalachian South -- In search of unconventional women : histories of Puerto Rican women in religious vocations before mid-century -- Black community and the birth-control movement. |
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Dialectics of wage work : Japanese-American women and domestic service, 1905-1940 -- Japanese American women during World War II -- Oral history and the study of sexuality in the lesbian community : Buffalo, New York, 1940-1960 -- Ladies' day at the Capitol : women strike for peace versus HUAC -- Development of Chicana feminist discourse, 1970-1980 -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck and Company : a personal account. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Subject |
Sex role -- United States -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role. |
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African American women -- History.
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African American women. |
| Indexed Term |
United States Women, history |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-
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Ruíz, Vicki.
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| ISBN |
0415902711 : $45.00 |
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041590272X paperback $18.95 |
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