Born for liberty : a history of women in America /
History of women in America.
Sara M. Evans.
- [2nd ed.]
- New York : Free Press Paperbacks, c1997.
- xiv, 408 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Edition statement from preface (p. xi) First Free Press Paperbacks ed., 1997. "With a new chapter and preface by the author"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-395) and index.
1. The First American Women -- 2. The Women Who Came to North America, 1607-1770 -- 3. "But What Have I to Do with Politicks?": The Revolutionary Era -- 4. The Age of Association: 1820-1845 -- 5. A Time of Division: 1845-1865 -- 6. "Maternal Commonwealth" in the Gilded Age: 1865-1890 -- 7. Women and Modernity: 1890-1920 -- 8. Flappers, Freudians, and All That Jazz -- 9. Surviving the Great Depression -- 10. Women at War: The 1940s -- 11. The Cold War and the "Feminine Mystique" -- 12. Decade of Discovery: "The Personal Is Political" -- 13. The Politicization of Personal Life: Women Versus Women -- 14. Toward a New Century.
A history of American women from the Indian woman of the 16th century to the dual-role career woman and mother of the 1980s.
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