A History of Women in the United States

by Rene Miller Paredes

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This textbook focuses on women and their stories during the various time periods of United States history, including examples of the experiences of women and their point of view from their own writings whenever possible. Emphasis early on will be placed on English women and the laws of England, because while there are women from all over the world in the colonies, the area that became the United States was controlled by Great Britain, and their laws impacted all women in their colonies.

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Publisher
Lemoore College
Subjects
Humanities, History
Licence
CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. About the Author
  8. Introduction
  9. Words Matter
  10. 1: Women Before European Colonization
  11. 1.1: Indigenous Women Before Colonization
  12. 1.2: Women in Medieval Europe
  13. 1.3: Women in West Africa
  14. 2: Colonial and Revolutionary Women (1607-1800)
  15. 2.1: Women Under English Law
  16. 2.2: Indigenous Women in the Colonies
  17. 2.3: European Women in the British Colonies
  18. 2.4: African Women in the Colonies
  19. 2.5: Witchcraft and Women
  20. 2.6: Revolutionary Women and Republican Motherhood
  21. 3: Antebellum Women and the Civil War (1800-1865)
  22. 3.1: Cult of Domesticity
  23. 3.2: Working Class Women
  24. 3.3: Southern Women
  25. 3.4: Moral Reform
  26. 3.5: First Wave Feminism--Woman's Suffrage
  27. 3.6: Women in Westward Expansion
  28. 3.7: Women in the Civil War
  29. 4: Women in the Gilded Age through the Roaring 20s (1865-1929)
  30. 4.1: Immigrant Women in the Gilded Age
  31. 4.2: African American Women
  32. 4.3: Pink Collar Jobs
  33. 4.4: Progressive Reform and the New Woman
  34. 4.5: Progressive Women of Color
  35. 4.6: The Great Migration
  36. 4.7: World War I and the Roaring 20s
  37. 5: National Emergencies and Second Wave Feminism (1929-Present)
  38. 5.1: Women in the Great Depression
  39. 5.2: Women in World War II
  40. 5.3: Post-War America
  41. 5.4: Second Wave Feminism
  42. 5.5: Indigenous Feminism
  43. 5.6: Black/African American Feminism
  44. 5.7: Chicana and Latina Feminism
  45. 5.8: Asian American Feminism
  46. 5.9: Women in Politics
  47. Back Matter
  48. Index
  49. Glossary
  50. Detailed Licensing
  51. References