The first part of a collection of 38 readings in American Women's History that deals with the experiences of women in the North American colonies and the United States - from the first English settlement through the 1980s.

Women and Power in American History: A Reader, Volume I to 1880

Dublin, Thomas

Sklar, Kathryn Kish

History

Pearson College Div

Biography of Catharine Beecher. Study of gender roles and family attitudes in the ninteenth century. Includes eight illustrations. Frontispiece from the title page of The American Woman's Home by Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Light wear. Top edge spotted. xvi, 356 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity

Biographies & Memoirs

Yale Univ Pr

This masterful biography by one of America's foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book also serves as a political history of the United States during a period of transforming change when women worked to end the abuses of unregulated industrial capitalism. Kelley's story shows how changes in women's public culture combined with changes in men's public culture to produce results that neither could have achieved alone. In this volume, the first of two, Kathryn Kish Sklar explores the decades between 1830 and 1900, an era when women's organizations lent unprecedented power to their activism. After analyzing how earlier generations set the stage for women's centrality in the 1890s, she depicts the first forty years of Florence Kelley's life, telling of her childhood as a member of an elite Philadelphia family, her graduation from Cornell University in 1882, her immersion in European socialism, her search for a meaningful place within American political culture, and her rise to extraordinary public power in Chicago as a resident at Jane Addams's Hull House. Kelley's long career demonstrates that women's activism embodied the most deeply rooted characteristics of the American polity, particularly American traditions of voluntarism and limited government, the weakness of class as a vehicle for political mobilization, and the strength of gender. During the crisis-ridden years of massive immigration, industrialization, and urbanization between 1870 and 1900, Florence Kelley and other women offered an effective alternative to the male-dominated status quo.

Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture, 1830-1900

Community & Culture

Yale University Press

Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimké's campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged women's rights movement in the 1840s and 1850s and the emergence of race as a divisive issue that finally split that movement in 1869. A rich collection of over 50 documents includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others, giving students immediate access to the world of abolitionists and women's right advocates and their passionate struggles for emancipation. Headnotes to the documents, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, questions to consider, a chronology, and an index are also included.

Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Africa

Bedford/St.Martin's

Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimké's campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged women's rights movement in the 1840s and 1850s. A rich collection of over 50 documents includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others.

Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Americas

American Promise 2e Volume 1 and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 2e: and Women's Rights and The World Turned Upside Down

Blight, David W.

Calloway, Colin G.

Through Womens Eyes & Womens Rights Emerges within the Anti Slavery Movement 1830 to 1870 & Pocket Guide to Writing in History 4e

DuBois, Ellen Carol

Dumenil, Lynn

Rampolla, Mary Lynn.

What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680? & How Did American Slavery Begin? & Creating an American Culture & Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement

Countryman, Edward

Kornfeld, Eve

WEBER, David J.

Through Women's Eyes 2e & American Women's Movement & Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement

MacLean, Nancy

Through Women's Eyes V1 & Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870

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