This twentieth anniversary edition of Nancy F. Cott's acclaimed study includes a new preface in which Cott assesses her own and other historians' development of the concept of domesticity, from the 1970s to the 1990s.
"Nancy Cott's Bonds of Womanhood is not just a pioneer work in women's history. It is a classic. Despite all the work published since, it is still an essential starting place for understanding New England in the early republic". -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Cott, still the best historian of women's bonds and bondage, foresaw twenty years ago the tendency of domesticity's bonds to lead both to feminism and the far right. An essential book for understanding today's women. -- Carolyn Heilbrun

The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman`s Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835

History

Cott, Professor Nancy F.

Americas

Yale University Press

Examines changes in the women's movement in the twenty years following women's suffrage, and describes the complex issues of that period

The Grounding of Modern Feminism

A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Historian, social reformer, and women's suffrage campaigner, Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958) was one of the most prominent intellectuals of her day. Co-author with her husband, Charles Beard of "The Rise of American Civilization: and other works in US history, she also founded the modern field of women's history. This collection of her letters, offers in effect an intellectual biography which is considered to be better documented and more vivid than any previous book about her. The letters, sharply opinionated on public matters, persons and books, reveal a free-standing thinker whose self-confessed "obsession with women" led her both in and out of step with feminists of her generation. Illuminating many facets of Beard's partnership with her husband, they present just as forcefully her own dramatic passion for advancing knowledge and bringing about social change through the recovery of women's history.

Biographies & Memoirs

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Books by Cott, Professor Nancy F.

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The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman`s Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835

The Grounding of Modern Feminism

A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters