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…mehr
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.
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 andReform.
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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 IN
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 IN
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