America's women : four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines / Gail Collins.
| Author/creator | Collins, Gail |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : William Morrow, ©2003. |
| Description | xvii, 556 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The first colonists: voluntary and otherwise -- The women of New England: goodwives, heretics, Indian captives, and witches -- Daily life in the colonies: housekeeping, children, and sex -- Toward the revolutionary war -- 1800-1860: true women, separate spheres, and many emergencies -- Life before the civil war: cleanliness and corsetry -- African American women: life in bondage -- Women and abolition: white and Black, north and south -- The civil war: nurses, wives, spies, and secret soldiers -- Women go west: pioneers, homesteaders, and the fair but frail -- The gilded age: stunts, shorthand, and study clubs -- Immigrants: discovering the "woman's country" -- Turn of the century: the arrival of the new woman -- Reforming the world: suffrage, temperance, and other causes -- The twenties: all the liberty you can use in the backseat of a Packard -- The Depression: Ma Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt -- World War II: "she's making history, working for victory" -- The fifties: life at the far end of the pendulum -- The sixties: the pendulum swings back with a vengeance. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-540) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003051011 |
| ISBN | 0060185104 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HQ1410 .C588 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |