Opdycke The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-26444-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Atlases of American History

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Opdycke, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD

IINTRODUCTION
PART I: BREAKING OLD TIES: AMERICAN WOMEN BEFORE 1800
he First American Women
European Women in the New World
Women in the Northern Colonies
Women in the Southern Colonies
Enslaved Women in the Colonies
Women in the Revolutionary Era
Women in the Young Republic
Martha Ballard, Eighteenth-Century Midwife

PART II: WOMEN'S PLACE IN AN EXPANDING NATION: 1800-1865
White Women Move West
The Uprooting of Native American Women
Urban Women before the Civil War
Working Women in Antebellum America
Black and White Women on the Plantation
Women and Antebellum Reform
Angelina Grimke, Abolitionist
Southern Women during the Civil War
Northern Women during the Civil War

PART III: SEEKING A VOICE: 1865-1914
Women in the South During Reconstruction
Women of Color Face New Adversity
Settling the Prairies
The Lady of the House
A New Wave of Immigrant Women
Making a Home in the Tenements
Working Women at the Turn of the Century
Women in Factories
Women and the Unions
Sister Carrie in the Industrial City
New Professional Careers for Women
Women and Progressive-Era Reform
Bohemian Women

PART IV: TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACKWARD: 1914-1965
Winning the Vote
Women in World War I
Women's Politics after Suffrage
Black Women Leaving the South
Women's Work Between the Wars
A World of Things to Buy
Selling Beauty
Women During the Depression
Eleanor Roosevelt, Voice of Conscience
World War II: Women in the Military
World War II: Women on the Home Front
The Move to the Suburbs
Confronting the Question of Race

PART V: REDEFINING WOMEN'S PLACE: 1965 TO THE PRESENT
Conflict and Dissent in the Late 1960s
Confronting the Question of Gender
Recent Trends in Women's Work
Recent Trends in Women's Income
Recent Trends in Women's Immigration
Recent Trends in Women and Politics
Georganna Deas, Speaking Truth to Power
Recent Trends Regarding Women and Crime
Recent Trends in Women's Health
Living Longer

AMERICAN WOMEN: STATISTICS OVER TIME

FURTHER READING

INDEX

MAP ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Opdycke is Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies at Vassar College and Associate Director of the Fordham Institute for Innovation in Social Policy. She is the author of No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City since 1900, and the co-author of American Social Welfare Policy: Reassessment and Reform.