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A Heritage of her own: toward a new social history of American women

Pleck, Elizabeth Hafkin., Cott, Nancy F.

Year: c1979.

Publisher: Simon and Schuster.

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Frontmatter

INTRODUCTION

1 THE PLANTER'S WIFE: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland

2 VERTUOUS WOMEN FOUND: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735

3 QUAKER MARRIAGE PATTERNS IN A COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE

4 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FAMILY AND SOCIAL LIFE REVEALED IN MASSACHUSETTS DIVORCE RECORDS

5 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN IN PEACE AND WAR: The Case of the Loyalists

6 PASSIONLESS: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850

7 THE LADY AND THE MILL GIRL: Changes in the Status of Women in the Age of Jackson, 1800-1840

8 BEAUTY, THE BEAST, AND THE MILITANT WOMAN: A Case Study in Sex Roles and Social Stress in Jacksonian America

9 FAMILY LIMITATION, SEXUAL CONTROL, AND DOMESTIC FEMINISM IN VICTORIAN AMERICA

10 WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES ON THE OVERLAND TRAIL TO CALIFORNIA AND OREGON, 1842-1867

11 THE LIFE CYCLES AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN ETHNIC GROUPS: Irish, Germans, and Native-born Whites in Buffalo, New York, 1855

12 LIFE IN THE BIG HOUSE

13 MARITAL AND SEXUAL NORMS AMONG SLAVE WOMEN

14 THE FEMALE WORLD OF LOVE AND RITUAL: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America

15 "WHERE ARE THE ORGANIZED WOMEN WORKERS?"

16 A MOTHER'S WAGES: Income Earning Among Married Italian and Black Women, 1896-1911

17 OUR OWN KIND: Family and Community Networks in Providence

18 FEMALE SUPPORT NETWORKS AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman

19 BIRTH CONTROL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION

20 COOKBOOKS AND LAW BOOKS: The Hidden History of Career Women in Twentieth-Century America

21 TIME SPENT IN HOUSEWORK

22 WOMEN'S WORK AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: Some Lessons from the Great Depression

23 THE KINDRED OF VIOLA JACKSON: Residence and Family Organization of an Urban Black American Family

24 FEMINISM AND THE CONTEMPORARY FAMILY

Suggestions for Further Reading

Notes on Contributors

Index

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Title:

A Heritage of her own : toward a new social history of American women edited, with an introd., by Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck.

Author:

Pleck, Elizabeth Hafkin; Cott, Nancy F

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A Heritage of her own : toward a new social history of American women edited, with an introd., by Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck.
Pleck, Elizabeth Hafkin, Cott, Nancy F
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1979.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01630

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• Women -- United States -- History

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