Major Problems in American Women's History

by Norton, Mary Beth; Alexander, Ruth M.; Paterson, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780618122196
• ISBN10: 0618122192
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-09
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This text, appropriate for courses in U.S. women's history, presents a carefully selected group of readings that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays.

Table of Contents

Current Issues in American Women's History

Essays Manuela Thurner

Issues and Paradigms in American Women's History Gisela Bock

Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

African American Women in History.

Colonial Women in New Worlds DOCUMENTS

Mary Musgrove Assists the Georgians in Dealing with the Choctaws, 1734

Mary Musgrove Seeks Aid from Georgia in Return for Past Service and Losses, 1747

Father Juan Sanz de Lezauacute;n Reports a Comanche Raid in New Mexico, 1747

Father Pedro Serrano Describes the Treatment of Captive Indian Women in New Mexico, 1761

Israel and Mary Wilkinson Describe the Relationship of Sara Muckamugg and Aaron, an African American Man, 1771

Rhode Island Prohibits Whites from Marrying People of Color, 1798

Essays

Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands

Mary Musgrove and the Sexual Politics of Race and Gender in Georgia

A Case Study of Indian and African American Intermarriage in Colonial New England

The Economic Roles of Women in the Northern Colonies Documents

Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, a Wealthy Philadelphian, Describes Her Work and That of Other Women, 1758-1794

Ruth Henshaw, a Massachusetts Teenager, Records Her Work in 1792

Essays

Gender, Work, and Wages in Colonial New England

Women's Work in Colonial

The Impact of the American Revolution DOCUMENTS

Abigail and John Adams Discuss "Remembering the Ladies," 1776

The Patriot Esther DeBerdt Reed Describes the "Sentiments of an American Woman,", 1780

Thomas Jefferson's Slaves Join the British, 1781

Sarah Osborn, a Camp Follower, Recalls the Revolution, 1837

Essays

The Negative Impact of the American Revolution on White Women

The Positive Impact of the American Revolution on White Women

The Mixed Legacy of the American Revolution for Black Women

White Women and Politics in the Antebellum Years Documents

A Correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer Satirizes the Political Role of "the Ladies of Richmond," 1840

Two Commentators Deride Virginia Whig Women's Plan to Erect a Statue to

Elizabeth McClintock and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Defend teh seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, 1848

Editor of Godey's Lady's Book, Praises Women's Indirect Political Influence, 1852cSarah Josepha Hale

Two Men Debate Women's Proper Role, 1853–1854

Henry Mills Alden, the Editor of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Attacks Women's Rights, 1853.

Anson Bingham Responds in The Lily, 1854 ESSAYS Paula Baker, White Women's "Separate Sphere" and Their Political Role, 1780–1860 Elizabeth R. Varon, White Women and Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia Nancy Isenberg, Women's Rights and the Politics of Church and State in Antebellum America

Women and Slavery Documents

Lydia White, A Philadelphia Shopkeeper, Refuses to Carr the Products of Slave Labor in

"A.F.M.," a Young Rhode Island Girl, Exhorts "the Daughters of New England" to Oppose Slavery, 1832

Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper), a Freeborn Black Poet, Pleads, "Bury Me in a Free Land," 1858

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, a Plantation Mistress, Discusses Interracial Sexual Relationships, 1858

Mary Still, a Prominent Black Abolitionist, and Other Free Women in Philadelphia Form the "Female Publication Society" to Promote the Moral Uplift of Free and Enslaved African Americans, 1861

Pauli Murray Recounts the Rape of Her Enslaved Great-Grandmother in 1844 ESSAYS Catherine Clinton, Sexuality in Black and White Shirley J. Yee, Free Black Women in the Abolitionist Movement Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement

White Women in the Civil War Crisis Documents

Maria Daly, a New Yorker, Criticizes Southern Women and Records the War Work of Her Acquaintances, 1862

The Louisianian Sarah Morgan Proudly Proclaims Herself a Rebel, 1863

Caroline Kirkland Offers "a Few Words in Behalf of the Loyal Women of the United States," 1863

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas Describes Conditions in the Confederacy and Criticizes Northern Women, 1865

Mary Livermore Recalls Northern Women's Response to the Beginning of the Civil War, 1890 Essays LeeAn Whites, Southern White Women and the Burdens of War Jeanie Attie, Northern White Women and the Mobilization for War

Women in the Trans-Mississippi Frontier West

Documents

A Citizen Protests the Rape of Indian Women in California, 1862

An Old Woman Recalls Her Life in Hispanic California in the Early Nineteenth Century, 1877

Zitkala-Sa Travels to the Land of the Big Red Apples, 1884

Mrs. A.M. Green's Account of Frontier Life, 1887

Sadie Martin's Memories of Desert Life, 1888

Leong Shee's Testimony to an Immigration Official in San Francisco, 1893 ESSAYS Coll-Peter Thrush and Robert H. Keller, Jr., The Life and Murder Trial of a Native American Woman in the Pacific Northwest Judy Yung, Chinese Women in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Work and Work Cultures in the Era of the "New Woman," 1880–1920s

Rose Cohen Describes Her First Job in New York City, 1892.

Gertrude Stuart Baillie Asks, "Should Professional Women Marry?" 1894

Fannie Barrier Williams Describes the "Problem of Employment for Negro Women," 1903

Harriet Brunkhurst Laments the Home Problems of "Business Girls," 1910

The Survey Reports on a Protest of Unemployed Women in New York City, 1914

College Women Offer Patriotic Service in Agriculture During World War I

Elizabeth Jones Praises Negro Women in the Nursing Profession, 1923

Marion Bonner Reports on the Women of the Southern

Textile Strikes, 1929

Community Life and Work Culture Among African American Domestic Workers in Washington, D.C., 1910–1940

The Working Lives of Jewish Immigrant Daughters in Urban America, 1900–1920

The "New Woman" in Public Life and Politics, 1900–1930 DOCUMENTS

Mary Church Terrell Praises the Club Work of Colored Women, 1901

Mary Church Terrell Describes Lynching from a Negro's Point of View, 1904

Endorses Votes for Women, 1908

Margaret Dreier Robins Describes the Purposes of the Women's Trade Union League, 1909

The California Supreme Court Upholds an Eight-Hour Law for Women, 1912

Mary Ritter Beard Defends the Place of the Congressional Union in the Suffrage Movement, 1916

Two Statements on Race Relations. Women's Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1920; Southeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1921

Elsie Hill and Florence Kelly Take Opposing Positions on a Proposed Woman's Equal Rights Bill, 1922

Elsie Hill Explains Why Women Should Have Full Legal Equality, 1922; Florence Kelly Explains Her Opposition to Full Legal Equality, 1922 Essays Kathryn Kish Sklar

Differences in the Political Cultures of Men and Women Reformers During the Progressive Era Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Diplomats to the White Community: African American Women in Progre

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