Women in Modern America

by Banner, Lois W.

• ISBN13: 9780155063501
• ISBN10: 0155063502
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-09
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Investigate the ways in which notions of gender difference have changed over time with WOMEN IN MODERN AMERICA. This book examines the broad themes that have shaped women's experiences in the United States from 1890 to the present day, as well as how a wide variety of women have both created and responded to shifting, often controversial cultural, political, and social roles.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xi
ABOUT THE AUTHOR	xv
1 THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN AMERICAN WOMAN, 1890	1	(38)
Women's Status in 1890	1	(5)
Legal Codes	2	(1)
Educational Opportunities	3	(3)
Medicine and Sexuality	6	(4)
A "Strange New Note"	8	(1)
Aging Women and Menopause	9	(1)
Women's Romantic Friendships	9	(1)
The Middle-Class Family	10	(2)
Employment	12	(6)
Inventors and Entrepreneurs	13	(2)
Discrimination Against Working Women	15	(3)
Discrimination in the Professions: Feminization	16	(1)
The Male Response: Masculinization	17	(1)
Rural and Urban Women	18	(3)
Rural Women of the Midwest, South, and Southwest	18	(2)
Urban Working Conditions	20	(1)
Immigration and Ethnicity Across the Nation	21	(7)
European Immigration and Women's Work	21	(4)
Asian Immigration	25	(3)
Chinese Immigration	25	(2)
Japanese Immigration	27	(1)
Korean and Filipino Immigration	27	(1)
Race and Representation	28	(11)
African American Women	29	(4)
Native American Women	33	(2)
Women and the Columbian Centennial of 1893	35	(4)
2 ORGANIZERS AND INNOVATORS: REFORMERS, FEMINISTS, UNION LEADERS, AND SUFFRAGISTS, 1890-1920	39	(32)
Women's Rights and Progressivism: A Case of Give and Take	40	(7)
The Organizations: Growth and Changing Goals	41	(2)
A Broad Spectrum	43	(2)
Progressive Reform and Settlement Houses	45	(2)
The "Female Dominion" of Reform	47	(1)
Women's Frailty, Special Legislation, and Maternal Feminism	47	(2)
Racism and Elitism in Anglo-American Women's Organizations	49	(1)
Diversity in Ethnic and Black Women's Organizations	49	(2)
The Artists	51	(1)
The Radicals	52	(1)
The New Scholars	53	(3)
Feminist Action Groups: A Faint Voice	56	(1)
Two Generations	57	(1)
Strikes and Unionists	58	(4)
The Consumers' League and the Women's Trade Union League	62	(1)
The New Sensuality	63	(1)
The Suffragists	64	(7)
Suffrage Deceived	64	(1)
Suffrage Achieved	65	(2)
Women and World War I	67	(1)
The Final Victory	68	(3)
3 FREEDOM OR DISILLUSIONMENT? THE 1920'S	71	(30)
Antifeminist Undercurrents and Feminist Conservatism	72	(3)
Sexuality	75	(1)
"Flaming Youth"-New Liberties, New Repressions, and Old Attitudes	75	(3)
Conservatism and Eugenics	78	(2)
Women at Work: Progress and Setbacks	80	(7)
Married Women at Work	81	(1)
Professional Women	82	(1)
Artists and Writers of Achievement	83	(4)
Mexican Immigration: Women, Work, and Acculturation	87	(1)
Working Women	88	(1)
Labor Unions in a Conservative Era	89	(1)
Women's Organizations in the 1920's	90	(5)
Women's Organizations in Transition	91	(3)
The Sheppard-Towner Act: Successes and Failures	94	(1)
The New Heroines	95	(6)
4 WOMEN IN THE DEPRESSION AND WAR ERA, 1930-1945	101	(36)
Feminism and Women's Organizations	102	(1)
Southern Women and the Antilynching Movement	103	(1)
Eleanor Roosevelt	104	(3)
The Women's Network and New Deal Programs	107	(2)
The NRA and New Deal Discrimination Against Women	109	(1)
Changes for the Working Woman	110	(2)
African American and Hispanic Women	112	(1)
Unions in an Age of Depression	113	(1)
The Importance of the Communist Party	114	(2)
Sexuality and Security	116	(4)
Marriage and Family in an Insecure Age	117	(2)
Lesbians and Gays: Oppressed Minorities	119	(1)
Popular Culture	120	(6)
Fashionable Appearances and Contradictions	120	(1)
Strong Women: Soaps, Sleuths, and Scarlett	121	(1)
Imagining Movies: West, Westerns, and Censorship	122	(1)
Race and Popular Culture	123	(3)
Women as Part of the War Effort During World War II	126	(1)
Women Take on Male Roles	127	(5)
Film Noir and Anxious Roles	127	(2)
Limitations During the War	129	(3)
Work After the War	132	(1)
Rebel Youth	133	(4)
5 A CONSERVATIVE ERA, 1945-1960	137	(26)
Anticommunism	138	(2)
Women Under Attack	140	(1)
Domesticity and the Family	141	(7)
The Back-to-the-Home Movement	142	(1)
The Evidence from Popular Culture	143	(1)
Styles in Dress	143	(3)
Movies	146	(1)
Television	147	(1)
Sex and Childrearing	148	(5)
A Sexual Underside	149	(1)
Playboy and Barbie	150	(3)
Feminism in the 1950's	153	(2)
New Economic, Demographic, and Medical Factors	155	(1)
The New Trends and the Persistence of Discrimination	156	(1)
Conformity and Male Discontent	157	(1)
The Youth Rebellion	157	(2)
The Civil Rights Movement	159	(4)
6 PROGRESS AND BACKLASH, THE 1960'S AND 1970'S	163	(32)
New Faces and New Music	164	(1)
Hippies and "Swinging Singles"	165	(3)
The Formation of NOW	168	(1)
The Feminist Movement After NOW	169	(2)
Discrimination Against Women	171	(1)
Sexuality and Power: Women's Bodies	172	(1)
Feminism: Cultural Impacts	173	(2)
Feminist Spirituality	175	(1)
Movies and Television: A Wasteland for Women	176	(1)
Minority Protest	177	(4)
Native Americans	177	(1)
Mexican Americans, Hispanics, Latinos	178	(2)
African Americans	180	(1)
Lesbians, Gays, and the Stonewall Riot	180	(1)
Legislative and Legal Successes	181	(1)
The Feminist Movement: United and Divided	181	(4)
Marriage and the Family; "Equality" Versus "Difference" Feminists	182	(1)
The Sex Wars	182	(1)
Lesbians	183	(1)
Women of Color	184	(1)
Feminist Achievements and the Houston National Women's Conference	185	(1)
Backlash	186	(4)
The New Right	186	(1)
Pro-Life and Pro-Choice	187	(1)
Backlash in the Aledia, in Appearances, and in Advertising	187	(3)
Disco and Punk	190	(1)
Recent Immigration	191	(4)
7 THE THIRD WAVE, 1980-2004	195	(30)
Politics Become Conservative	196	(1)
Backlash Continues	197	(2)
The Emergence of New Styles	199	(4)
Fashions, Advertising, and Disco	199	(1)
Rap and Hip-hop	200	(1)
Madonna	201	(2)
The Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Scandal	203	(2)
Feminism Takes New Forms	205	(7)
"Unobtrusive Mobilization" and the Military	209	(1)
Postmodernism	210	(2)
The Clinton Presidency	212	(1)
Generational Conflict	213	(1)
Third-Wave Feminism	214	(4)
The Recent Situation	218	(1)
The George W. Bush Presidency	218	(2)
Women and Aging in Contemporary Times	220	(1)
The Present: Revolutionary or Not?	221	(4)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	225	(26)
PHOTO CREDITS	251	(2)
INDEX	253