ABSTRACT

Looking at general trends and specific items such as life in a tenement, women working overseas in World War I, the production of cosmetics in the 1920s, and new female immigration, this atlas portrays the history of American women from a vivid geographical and demographic perspective. In a variety of colorful maps and charts, this important new work documents milestones in the evolution of the social and political rights of women. Coverage includes the rise of reform movements such as temperance, women's suffrage, and abolition during the 19th century, and contraception, abortion rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment in the 20th. Also inlcludes 50 color maps.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part I|18 pages

Breaking Old Ties

chapter |2 pages

The First American Women

chapter |2 pages

European Women in the New World

chapter |2 pages

Women in the Northern Colonies

chapter |2 pages

Women in the Southern Colonies

chapter |2 pages

Enslaved Women in the Colonies

chapter |2 pages

Women in the Revolutionary Era

chapter |2 pages

Women in the Young Republic

part II|20 pages

Women's Place in an Expanding Nation

chapter |2 pages

White Women Move West

chapter |2 pages

The Uprooting of Native American Women

chapter |2 pages

Urban Women before the Civil War

chapter |2 pages

Working Women of Antebellum America

chapter |2 pages

Black and White Women on the Plantation

chapter |2 pages

Women and Antebellum Reform

chapter |2 pages

Angelina Grimké, Abolitionist

chapter |2 pages

Southern Women during the Civil War

chapter |2 pages

Northern Women during the Civil War

part III|28 pages

Seeking A Voice

chapter |2 pages

Women of Color Face New Adversity

chapter |2 pages

Settling the Prairies

chapter |2 pages

The Lady of the House

chapter |2 pages

A New Wave of Immigrant Women

chapter |2 pages

Making a Home in the Tenements

chapter |2 pages

Women in Factories

chapter |2 pages

Women and the Unions

chapter |2 pages

Sister Carrie in the Industrial City

chapter |2 pages

New Professional Careers for Women

chapter |2 pages

Women and Progressive-Era Reform

chapter |2 pages

Bohemian Women

part IV|28 pages

Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward

chapter |2 pages

Winning the Vote

chapter |2 pages

Women in World War I

chapter |2 pages

Women's Politics after Suffrage

chapter |2 pages

Black Women Leaving the South

chapter |2 pages

Women's Work between the Wars

chapter |2 pages

A World of Things to Buy

chapter |2 pages

Selling Beauty

chapter |2 pages

Women during the Depression

chapter |2 pages

Eleanor Roosevelt, Voice of Conscience

chapter |2 pages

World War II: Women in the Military

chapter |2 pages

World War II: Women on the Home Front

chapter |2 pages

The Move to the Suburbs

chapter |2 pages

Confronting the Question of Race

part V|22 pages

Redefining Women's Place

chapter |2 pages

Conflict and Dissent in the Late 1960s

chapter |2 pages

Confronting the Question of Gender

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Recent Trends in Women's Work

chapter |2 pages

Recent Trends in Women's Income

chapter |2 pages

Recent Trends in Women's Immigration

chapter |2 pages

Recent Trends in Women and Politics

chapter |2 pages

Georganna Deas, Speaking Truth to Power

chapter |2 pages

Recent Trends Regarding Women and Crime

chapter |2 pages

Recent Trends in Women's Health

chapter |2 pages

Living Longer