The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America

by Opdycke,Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780415921329
• ISBN10: 0415921325
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Looking at general trends and specific items such as life in a tenement, women working overseas in World War I, the production of cosmetics in the 1920s, and new female immigration, this atlas portrays the history of American women from a vivid geographical and demographic perspective. In a variety of colorful maps and charts, this important new work documents milestones in the evolution of the social and political rights of women. Coverage includes the rise of reform movements such as temperance, women's suffrage, and abolition during the 19th century, and contraception, abortion rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment in the 20th. Also inlcludes 50 color maps.

Author Biography

Sandra Opdycke is Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies at Vassar College and Associate Director of the Fordham Institute for Innovation in Social Policy.

Table of Contents

Foreword	8	(2)
Introduction	10	(4)
PART I: BREAKING OLD TIES: AMERICAN WOMEN BEFORE 1800	14	(18)
The First American Women	16	(2)
European Women in the New World	18	(2)
Women in the Northern Colonies	20	(2)
Women in the Southern Colonies	22	(2)
Enslaved Women in the Colonies	24	(2)
Women in the Revolutionary Era	26	(2)
Women in the Young Republic	28	(2)
Martha Ballard, Eighteenth-Century Midwife	30	(2)
PART II: WOMEN'S PLACE IN AN EXPANDING NATION: 1800-1865	32	(20)
White Women Move West	34	(2)
The Uprooting of Native American Women	36	(2)
Urban Women before the Civil War	38	(2)
Working Women of Antebellum America	40	(2)
Black and White Women on the Plantation	42	(2)
Women and Antebellum Reform	44	(2)
Angelina Grimke, Abolitionist	46	(2)
Southern Women during the Civil War	48	(2)
Northern Women during the Civil War	50	(2)
PART III: SEEKING A VOICE: 1865--1914	52	(28)
Women in the South during Reconstruction	54	(2)
Women of Color Face New Adversity	56	(2)
Settling the Prairies	58	(2)
The Lady of the House	60	(2)
A New Wave of Immigrant Women	62	(2)
Making a Home in the Tenements	64	(2)
Working Women at the Turn of the Century	66	(2)
Women in Factories	68	(2)
Women and the Unions	70	(2)
Sister Carrie in the Industrial City	72	(2)
New Professional Careers for Women	74	(2)
Women and Progressive-Era Reform	76	(2)
Bohemian Women	78	(2)
PART IV: TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACKWARD: 1914--1965	80	(28)
Winning the Vote	82	(2)
Women in World War I	84	(2)
Women's Politics after Suffrage	86	(2)
Black Women Leaving the South	88	(2)
Women's Work between the Wars	90	(2)
A World of Things to Buy	92	(2)
Selling Beauty	94	(2)
Women during the Depression	96	(2)
Eleanor Roosevelt, Voice of Conscience	98	(2)
World War II: Women in the Military	100	(2)
World War II: Women on the Home Front	102	(2)
The Move to the Suburbs	104	(2)
Confronting the Question of Race	106	(2)
PART V: REDEFINING WOMEN'S PLACE: 1965 TO THE PRESENT	108	(22)
Conflict and Dissent in the Late 1960s	110	(2)
Confronting the Question of Gender	112	(2)
Recent Trends in Women's Work	114	(2)
Recent Trends in Women's Income	116	(2)
Recent Trends in Women's Immigration	118	(2)
Recent Trends in Women and Politics	120	(2)
Georganna Deas, Speaking Truth to Power	122	(2)
Recent Trends Regarding Women and Crime	124	(2)
Recent Trends in Women's Health	126	(2)
Living Longer	128	(2)
American Women: Statistics Over Time	130	(4)
Further Reading	134	(4)
Index	138	(4)
Map Acknowledgments	142	(2)
Acknowledgments	144