Through women's eyes : an American history with documents / Ellen Carol DuBois, Lynn Dumenil.

Author/creator DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-
Other author Dumenil, Lynn, 1950-
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Bedford/St. Martin's, ©2005.
Descriptionxxxiii, 698 pages, 73 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Contents Ch. 1. "New World" women, to 1750 -- Ch. 2. Mothers and daughters of the Revolution, 1750-1800 -- Ch. 3. Pedestal, loom, and auction block, 1800-1860 -- Ch. 4. Shifting boundaries: expansion, reform, and Civil War, 1840-1865 -- Ch. 5. Reconstructing women's lives North and South, 1865-1900 -- Ch. 6. Women in an expanding nation: consolidation of the West, mass immigration, and the crisis of the 1890s -- Ch. 7. Power and politics: women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 -- Ch. 8. Change and continuity: women in prosperity, depression, and war, 1920-1945 -- Ch. 9. Beyond the feminine mystique: women's lives, 1945-1965 -- Ch. 10. Modern feminism and American society, 1965 to the present.
Abstract [This text] integrate[s] women's history into U.S. history while ensuring a balanced sense of the broad diversity of American women. -Back cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004107879
ISBN0312247311 (pbk.)
ISBN9780312247317 (pbk.)