Women's America Refocusing the Past

by Kerber, Linda K.; Sherron De Hart, Jane; Dayton, Cornelia Hughes; Haugeberg, Karissa

• ISBN13: 9780190945756
• ISBN10: 0190945753
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780190945763
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780199349340, 9780199349364
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-09-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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About This Book

Women's America: Refocusing the Past, 9th Edition

ISBN: 9780190945756

About This Book

"Women's America: Refocusing the Past" is a comprehensive textbook that delves into the history of women in the United States from 1600 to the present day. This 9th edition, published by Oxford University Press in 2019, is a go-to resource for students and educators alike, offering a detailed exploration of women's experiences and contributions to American society.

Who Uses It?

Primarily, this book is used by students and instructors in women's history and gender studies courses at the college and university levels. It's also a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the historical context of women's roles and rights in America, including professionals looking to expand their knowledge of gender and women's studies.

History and Editions

The 9th edition of "Women's America: Refocusing the Past" has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history. This edition includes detailed updates on significant milestones, social movements, and cultural shifts that have shaped women's lives over time. The book continues to be a leading text in the field, reflecting the evolving understanding of women's experiences and contributions to American society.

Author and Other Works

The authors of "Women's America: Refocusing the Past" include Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, and Karissa Haugeberg. Linda K. Kerber is known for her groundbreaking work in women's history, while Jane Sherron De Hart has contributed significantly to the field with her research on women's roles in American society. Cornelia Hughes Dayton and Karissa Haugeberg bring their expertise in historical analysis and gender studies to the text, ensuring it remains current and relevant.

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ISBNs and Formats

• eTextbook: ISBN-13: 9780190945763
• Hardcover: ISBN-13: 9780190945756 (Note: This is the primary ISBN for the 9th edition)
• Other Editions: The book is available in earlier editions, but the 9th edition is the most recent and comprehensive.

Publication Details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Number of Pages: Varies by edition, but typically around 500-600 pages.
• Language: English

Other Editions and Formats

• 8th Edition: Available through various retailers, but not as updated as the 9th edition.
• eTextbook with VitalSource: ISBN-13: 9780190945763 (This includes built-in study tools like highlights and read-aloud features)[2].
• Related ISBNs:
• 9780190945763 (eTextbook with VitalSource)
• 9780190945756 (Hardcover, 9th edition)

Key Features

• Comprehensive Coverage: The book covers the history of women in the United States from 1600 to the present day, including detailed explanations and examples.
• Updated Research: The 9th edition includes detailed updates on significant events and social movements that have shaped women's lives over time.
• Author Expertise: The authors bring their extensive knowledge of women's history and gender studies to the text, ensuring it remains current and relevant.
• Study Tools: The eTextbook format includes built-in study tools like highlights, read-aloud features, and global search functionality[2].

This detailed information section provides a quick reference for all the available formats and sources for "Women's America: Refocusing the Past," making it easier to find and access the book in the preferred format.

Author Biography

Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts, Professor of History Emerita, and Lecturer in Law at the University of Iowa.

Jane Sherron De Hart is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Cornelia Hughes Dayton is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.

Karissa Haugeberg is Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. EARLY AMERICA, 1600-1800
Gender Frontiers
Kathleen M. Brown, The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier
Jennifer L. Morgan, "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies
In Brief: Childbirth Practices among North American Indigenous Women (by Ann Marie Plane)
Gender and Labor
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Three Inventories, Three Households
Mary Beth Norton, An Indentured Servant Identifies as "Both Man and Woeman": Jamestown, 1629
Judith A. Carney, Toiling in the Carolina Rice Fields
Founding Documents: Black and White Women Defined in Law
Virginia Establishes a Double Standard in Tax Law
Virginia's 1662 Law Defining Race-Based Enslavement
A Massachusetts Minister's Slave Marriage Vows
English Jurist William Blackstone Defines Coverture
Mary Collin's Probate Inventory
An Early Divorce Law and Sarah Welsher's Petition
Disorderly Women
Carol F. Karlsen, Inheriting Women and Witchcraft Accusations
Document
The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637
Two Eighteenth-Century Lives in Brief
Esther Wheelwright Becomes an Ursuline Nun (by Ann M. Little)
Abigail Stoneman, Entrepreneur (by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor)
Revolutionary Legacies
Documents
Philadelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door
Sarah Osborn, Woman of the Army
Deborah Sampson Gannett, Soldier
Grace Growden Galloway, Loyalist
Rachel Wells, "I have Don as much to Carrey on the War as maney . . ."
Linda K. Kerber, Republican Mothers and Women Citizens
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemings-Jefferson Treaty: Paris, 1789
PART II. MANY FRONTIERS, 1800-1880
Workplaces
Jeanne Boydston, The Pastoralization of Housework
Sharon Block, Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic
Document
Eliza R. Hemmingway and Sarah Bagley Testify on Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845
Slaveowning Households
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Mistresses in the Making
Thavolia Glymph, Women in Slavery: The Gender of Violence
Document
Maria Perkins, Writes to Her Husband on the Eve of Being Sold, 1852
Intimacy, Birth Control, and Abortion
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The Female World of Love and Ritual
James C. Mohr, The Abortion Landscape, 1800-1880
Activists and Reform
Gerda Lerner, The Meanings of Seneca Falls
Rose Stremlau, "I Know What an Indian Woman Can Do": Sarah Winnemucca Writes about the Northern Paiute Frontier
Documents
The Grimké Sisters Talk Truth to Power
Keziah Kendall Protests Coverture
Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
Married Women's Property Acts, New York State, 1848 and 1860
Sojourner Truth's Visiting Card, 1864
Nineteenth-Century Frontiers
Miroslava Chávez-García, The Murder Trial of Guadeloupe Trujillo: Los Angeles, 1843
In Brief: Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and College Professor (by Helen Knight et al.)
Photo Essay: Women in Public
Civil War and Its Aftermaths
Stephanie McCurry, Women Numerous and Armed: Politics and Policy on the Confederate Home Front
Leslie A. Schwalm, Enslaved Mothers: Claiming Freedom and Risking Death
Tera W. Hunter, Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom
Documents
A. S. Hitchcock, I Would Treat Them as Vagabonds
Reconstruction Amendments, 1865, 1868, 1870
Supreme Court Test Cases: Bradwell v. Illinois and Minor v. Happersett
PART III. MODERN AMERICA EMERGES, 1880-1945
Gender and the Jim Crow South
Glenda Gilmore, Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South
Documents
Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors (with an introduction by Patricia A. Schechter)
Mary McLeod Bethune, "How the Bethune-Cookman College Campus Started"
Women in the West
Peggy Pascoe, Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook of Oregon, Challenges Miscegenation Laws
Judy Yung, Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco's Chinatown
Document
Zitkala-"Sa, The Americanization of Native American Children
Change Agents
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and Women's Activism in the Progressive Era
Annelise Orleck, From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City
Documents
Pauline Newman, Life in the Garment District
Crystal Eastman, Now We Can Begin
Suffrage and Citizenship
Leila J. Rupp, Sexuality and Politics in the Early Twentieth-Century International Women's Movement
Documents
Chinese Exclusion: The Page Act and Its Aftermath
Mackenzie v. Hare, 1915
Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920
Jazz Age Opportunities and Limits
Vicki L. Ruiz, The Flapper and the Chaperone: Mexican American Teenagers in the Southwest
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness
Linda Gordon, Women and the KKK in the 1920s
Document
Equal Rights Amendment, 1921, 1923
Photo Essay: Adorning the Body
Great Depression
Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime
Blanche Wiesen Cook, Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights
Documents
Comstock Act
Emma Goldman's Mug Shot, 1901
Margaret Sanger, Contraception for all Women
Pauli Murray and the Making of Jane Crow
Women and War
Beth Bailey and David Farber, The Women of Hotel Street during World War II
Alice Kessler-Harris, Rethinking Women's Work during World War II
Document
The Forced Removal of Japanese Americans
PART IV. A TRANSFORMING WORLD, 1945-2018
Women's Cold War Activism
Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America
Michelle M. Nickerson, Politically Desperate Housewives
Documents
Betty Friedan, "The Problem That Has No Name"
Phyllis Schlafly, Difference, Not Equality
Sexuality at Midcentury
Susan K. Cahn, Lesbians and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports
Joanne Meyerowitz, Christine Jorgensen and the Story of How Sex Changed
Women and Movements against Injustice
Danielle L. McGuire, Sexual Violence and the Long Civil Rights Movement
In Brief: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Making of a Feminist Advocate (by Jane Sherron DeHart)
Documents
Hoyt v. Florida, 1961, and Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975
Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964
Loving v. Virginia, 1967
Reinvigorated Feminisms
Heather M. Stur, "We Weren't Called Soldiers": WACs and Nurses in Vietnam
Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, The Women's Liberation Movement
Documents
Poster, "Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No"
Equal Rights Amendment, 1972
Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972
Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973
Carol Sanger, "The Law from Roe Forward"
In Brief: Women's Experience with Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade (by Karissa Haugeberg)
Claims for Dignity
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domésticas Demand Dignity
Ashraf Zahedi, Muslim American Women after 9/11
In Brief: How History Matters in Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015 (by Nancy F. Cott)
Documents
Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986
Anita Hill's Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1991
Violence Against Women Act, 1994
Women's March, 2017