Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives Women in American History

by Lindenmeyer, Kriste

• ISBN13: 9780842027526
• ISBN10: 0842027521
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

These original biographical sketches provide an excellent introduction to both the contrasts and continuities of American women's experiences through nearly four centuries. Major subjects and themes emerge from the writings, including women's rights, suffrage, education, health, 'women's liberation, ' relations between the sexes, and marriage. An excellent resource for courses in American history, women's history, and social history, Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives offers students a comprehensive and very human picture of women in American history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: The Importance of ``Ordinary'' Women's Lives	xvii
Kriste Lindenmeyer
I The Revolutionary Era and the Early Republic: Defining the American Woman	1	(54)
Rebecca Dickinson: A Life Alone in the Early Republic	5	(20)
Marla R. Miller
Susanna Haswell Rowson: America's First Best-Selling Author	25	(14)
Patricia L. Parker
Sacagawea: A Historical Enigma	39	(16)
Laura McCall
II The Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Era of the Common Woman	55	(78)
Caroline Healey Dall: Transcendentalist Activist	59	(14)
Helen Deese
Mary S. Gove Nichols: Making the Personal Political	73	(18)
Jean Silver-Isenstadt
Eliza Johnson Potter: Traveler, Entrepreneur, and Social Critic	91	(14)
Wilma King
Ada Adelaine Adams Vogdes: ``Follow the Drum,''	105	(16)
Michele Nacy
Teresa E. Wooldridge Ivey: Constructing an Ideal Southern Lady	121	(12)
Angela Boswell
III The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Inventing the New Woman	133	(82)
Gertrude Osterhout: ``I Am Independent,''	137	(10)
Margaret Breashears
Margaret Olivia Slocum, ``Mrs. Russell Sage'': Private Griefs and Public Duties	147	(14)
Ruth Crocker
Nellie Wiegel: ``How About That?!''	161	(18)
Katherine Osburn
Ah Cum Kee and Loy Lee Ford: Between Two Worlds	179	(18)
Sue Fawn Chung
Catherine Kenny: Fighting for the Perfect Thirty-Sixth	197	(18)
Carole Stanford Bucy
IV World War II and Beyond: Women Challenging Modern America	215	(58)
Willie Webb: One Woman's Struggle for Civil Rights during World War II	219	(12)
Andrew Kersten
Ethel Thomas Herold: Doing ``Women's Work'' in a Philippines at War	231	(16)
Theresa Kaminski
Betty Flanagan Bumpers: An ``Ordinary Mother'' Dedicated to Peace	247	(14)
Paula Barnes
Margarita ``Mago'' Orona Gandara: Frontera Muralist/Artist	261	(12)
Miguel Juarez
About the Contributors	273	(4)
Index	277