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.
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
