ISBN:
9781555532567
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (464 p)
Ausgabe:
2nd ed
Paralleltitel:
Print version Cott, Nancy F Root of Bitterness : Documents of the Social History of American Women
DDC:
305.40973
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
A thoroughly revised edition of the classic text in American women's social history
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Colonial Encounters and Communities -- Examination of Anne Hutchinson -- Church Trial and Excommunication of Ann Hibbens -- Ordinary Dealings at Colonial County Courts -- Case of Sarah Taylor, Indentured Servant -- Statutes on Slave Descent -- Susanna Martin, on Trial for Witchcraft -- Carolina Women Observed -- A Rape on the Body of Anne Eastworthy -- A Law for Regulating Midwives -- II. Transitions to a New Republic -- Sarah Osborn's Religious Conversion -- Query to the Philadelphia Baptist Association
Kurzfassung:
Sarah Harlan's Will -- Letter from an Indentured Servant -- Diary of Mary Cooper -- Moll Placket-Hole -- Abigail Adams's Letters from the Home Front -- An Adolescent's Wartime Diary -- Learning by Doing Women's Work -- A Father's Advice to His Daughter -- Eliza Southgate Reflects on the Sexes -- Petition on Behalf of Fanny, a Slave Woman -- Women's Work in the Market Economy -- III. Woman's Sphere and Women's Employments -- Maria Stewart Sees Chains on the Soul -- Striking Tailoresses Speak -- Sarah Grimke on the Condition of Women in the United States -- The Legal Rights and Wrongs of Women
Kurzfassung:
The Peculiar Responsibilities, and Difficulties, of American Women -- ""Sweethearts and Wives"": A Story from Godey's Lady's Book -- A Parlor Ballad -- Margaret McCarthy Writes Home -- Petition for a Ten-Hour Workday -- Domestic Management in the Letters of Martha Coffin Wright -- A New York Woman on a North Carolina Plantation -- IV. Women and the National Mission -- Cherokee Women Address Their Nation -- Missionary to Indian Territory -- Eulalia Perez in Mexican California -- Reaching Oregon -- A Moral Reformer Makes Her Rounds -- An Afternoon Call -- A Daughter of Temperance Exhorts Her Sex
Kurzfassung:
Planting Catholic Schools in North America -- Since We Came to America -- Iron Teeth (Mah-i-Ti~Wo-Nee-Ni) Remembers the Cheyenne Removal -- The Great Indignation Meeting -- V. Slavery, War, and Emancipation -- James Curry's Mother -- Virginia Ladies' Petition to Eliminate Slavery -- An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, by Angelina Grimke -- Narratives of Escaped Slaves -- Sarah Parker Remond on American Slavery -- A Slave Writes to Her Former Mistress -- Louisa McCord on Enfranchisement of Woman -- Union Women in Wartime -- Gertrude Clanton Thomas's Civil War Diary
Kurzfassung:
A Freedwoman before the Southern Claims Commission -- The Race Problem-An Autobiography -- VI. Health, Medicine, and Sexuality -- On Female Health in America -- Lucy Thurston's Surgical Operation -- The Murders of Marriage, by Mary Gove Nichols -- Testimony as to the Insanity of Elizabeth Packard -- Abortion in New York -- A Fox Woman Comes of Age -- The Working Girls of Boston -- Sex in Education, by Dr. Edward H. Clarke -- Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi on Female Invalidism -- Effeminate Men, Masculine Women -- The Story of Aunt Easter -- VII. Women's Work in an Industrial Age -- Have Been Busy All Day
Kurzfassung:
The Sweating System, Charity, and Organization
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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