Women's America: refocusing the past

Part I. Early America, 1600-1820 : Gender Frontiers

Kathleen M. Brown, The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier

Jennifer L. Morgan, "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder:" European Depictions of Indigenous Women, 1492-1750

European Settlers: Gender Puzzles, Gender Rules

Mary Beth Norton, An Indentured Servant Identifies as "Both Man and Woeman": Jamestown, 1629

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Three Inventories, Three Households

Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft

Ann Little, Captivity and Conversion: Daughters of New England in French Canada

DOCUMENTS: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637

European Women and the Law: Examples from Colonial Connecticut

Hidden Transcripts within Slavery: Judith A. Carney, The African Women Who Preceded Uncle Ben: Black Rice in Carolina

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemings-Jefferson Treaty: Paris, 1789

DOCUMENTS: Virginia Establishes a Double Standard in Tax Law

"According to the condition of the mother . . ."

"For the prevention of that abominable mixture . . ."

A Massachusetts Minister's Slave Marriage Vows

Living Through War and Revolution

DOCUMENTS: Philadelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door

Sarah Osborn, "The bullets would not cheat the gallows . . ."

Rachel Wells, "I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney . . ."

Grace Galloway, Loyalist

Linda K. Kerber, Why Diamonds Really Are a Girl's Best Friend: The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen.

Part II. America's Many Frontiers, 1820-1880 : Workplace and Household Scenes

Jeanne Boydston, The Pastoralization of Housework

Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Mistresses in the Making

Thavolia Glymph, Women in Slavery: The Gender of Violence

DOCUMENTS: Eliza R. Hemmingway and Sarah Bagley, Testimony on Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845

Maria Perkins writes to her husband on the eve of being sold, 1854

Between Nations and On the Borders: Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Public Mothers: Creole Mediators in the Northern Borderlands

Maureen Fitzgerald, Habits of Compassion: Irish American Nuns in New York City

Intimacy and Disciplining Bodies

Sharon Block, Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America

James C. Mohr, Abortion in America, 1800-1880

DOCUMENT: Comstock Act, 1873

Reforming Society

Susan Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship: Debating Women's Anti-slavery Petitions

Gerda Lerner, The Meaning of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998

Rose Stremlau, "I Know What an Indian Woman Can Do": Sarah Winnemucca Writes About Rape on the Northern Paiute Frontier

DOCUMENTS: The Grimké Sisters, Sarah and Angelina, Talk Truth to Power

Keziah Kendall protests coverture

Ellen F. Watkins goes on the lecture circuit

Declaration of Sentiments, 1848

Married Women's Property Acts, New York State, 1848 and 1860

Sojourner Truth's Visiting Card, 1864

Photo Essay: Women in Public

Civil War and Aftermath

Stephanie McCurry, Women Numerous and Armed: Politics and Policy on the Confederate Home Front

Tera W. Hunter, Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom

DOCUMENTS: A.S. Hitchcock, "Young women particularly flock back & forth . . ."

Roda Ann Childs, "I was more dead than alive"

Reconstruction Amendments, 1868, 1870

Win Some, Lose Some: Women in Court: Coger v. The North Western Union Packet Company, Supreme Court of Iowa, 1873; Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873; Minor v. Happersett, 1874

The Women's Centennial Agenda, 1876.

Part III: Modern America Emerges, 1880-1920 : Gender and the Jim Crow South

Glenda Gilmore, Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South

Kim E. Nielsen, The Southern Identity of Helen Keller

DOCUMENTS: Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors (with an introduction by Patricia A. Schechter)

Mary McLeod Bethune, "How the Bethune-Cookman College Campus Started"

Women in the West

Peggy Pascoe, Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook of Oregon, Challenges Miscegenation Laws

Judy Yung, Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco's Chinatown

DOCUMENT: Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), " ... this semblance of civilization . . ."

Change Agents

Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and Women's Activism in the Progressive Era

Annelise Orleck, From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City

DOCUMENTS: Pauline Newman, "We fought and we bled and we died . . ."

Crystal Eastman, "Now We Can Begin"

Empire and Internationalism

Laura Wexler, A Lady Photojournalist Goes to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair

Leila Rupp, Sexuality and Politics in the Early Twentieth-Century International Women's Movement

Suffrage and Citizenship

Ellen Carol Dubois, The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics

DOCUMENTS: Chinese Exclusion: The Page Act and Its Aftermath

Mackenzie v. Hare, 1915

Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920.

Part IV: Storms on Many Fronts, 1920-1945 : Sexuality and the Body: Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture

Vicki L. Ruiz, The Flapper and the Chaperone: Mexican American Teenagers in the Southwest

Cheryl D. Hicks, Mabel Hampton in Harlem: Regulating Black Women's Sexuality in the 1920s

Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Reproduction and the Economy in the Great Depression

DOCUMENT: Margaret Sanger, "I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception . . ."

Photo Essay: Adorning the Body

Labor and Activism

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South

Devra Anne Weber, Mexican Women on Strike in 1933: The Structure of Memory

Gendering the Nation-State

Nancy F. Cott, Equal Rights and Economic Roles: The Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s

Alice Kessler-Harris, Designing Women and Old Fools: Writing Gender into Social Security Law

Blanche Wiesen Cook, Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights at Home and in Europe

Women and War

Valerie Matsumoto, Japanese American Women During World War II

Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II.

Part V.A Transforming World, 1945-2014 : Cold War Heteronormativity

Susan K. Cahn, "Mannishness," Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports

Joyce Antler, Imagining Jewish Mothers in the 1950s

Women's Cold War Activism

Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America

Michelle M. Nickerson, Politically Desperate Housewives in Southern California

Danielle L. McGuire, Sexual Violence and the Long Civil Rights Movement

DOCUMENTS: Betty Friedan, "The problem that has no name"

Phyllis Schlafly, "The thoughts of one who loves life as a woman . . ."

Rethinking Family and Sex

Joanne Meyerowitz, Christine Jorgensen and The Story of How Sex Changed

Beth L. Bailey, Prescribing the Pill: The Coming of the Sexual Revolution in America's Heartland

Ji-Yeon Yuh, Korean Military Brides: Cooking American, Eating Korean

Lisa Levenstein, Hard Choices at 1801 Vine: African American Women, Child Support, and Domestic Violence in Postwar Philadelphia

DOCUMENTS: Kay Weiss, "With doctors like these for friends, who needs enemies?"

Roe v. Wade, 1973; Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992; Carhart v. Gonzales, 2007; Recent Developments Rethinking Marriage: Loving v. Virginia, 1967; Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965; Defense of Marriage Act, 1996; Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2003; Recent Developments

Gender and the Armed Forces

Margot Canaday, "Finding a Home in the Army: Before 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"

Elizabeth L. Hillman, The Female Shape of the All-Volunteer Force

DOCUMENTS: Goesaert v. Cleary, 1948

"We were the first American women sent to live and work in the midst of guerrilla warfare. . . ."

Feminisms

Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, The Women's Liberation Movement

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, The Vietnam War and Global Sisterhood

DOCUMENTS: The Personal is Political

Carol Hanisch, A Critique of the Miss America Protest, 1968

Jennie V. Chávez, Women of the Mexican American Movement, 1972

Editorial Staff of Rodan, Asian Women as Leaders, 1971

Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977

DOCUMENTS: Gender Equality and the Law

Hoyt v. Florida, 1961; Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975

Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964

Equal Rights Amendment, 1972

Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972

Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973

Susan Eisenberg, An Electrician Among the Hard-Hatted Women

Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986

Violence Against Women Act, 1994, 2000, 2005, 2013

Borders Among Us

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domésticas Demand Dignity

Ashraf Zahedi, Muslim American Women After 9/11

DOCUMENTS: Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis, A Chief and Her People

Hillary Clinton, "Women's Rights Are Human Rights," 1995.