Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION (page 9)
- 1 THE PLANTER'S WIFE: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland (LOIS GREEN CARR and LORENA S. WALSH, page 25)
- 2 VERTUOUS WOMEN FOUND: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735 (LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH, page 58)
- 3 QUAKER MARRIAGE PATTERNS IN A COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE (ROBERT V. WELLS, page 81)
- 4 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FAMILY AND SOCIAL LIFE REVEALED IN MASSACHUSETTS DIVORCE RECORDS (NANCY F. COTT, page 107)
- 5 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN IN PEACE AND WAR: The Case of the Loyalists (MARY BETH NORTON, page 136)
- 6 PASSIONLESS: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850 (NANCY F. COTT, page 162)
- 7 THE LADY AND THE MILL GIRL: Changes in the Status of Women in the Age of Jackson, 1800-1840 (GERDA LERNER, page 182)
- 8 BEAUTY, THE BEAST, AND THE MILITANT WOMAN: A Case Study in Sex Roles and Social Stress in Jacksonian America (CARROLL SMITH-ROSENBERG, page 197)
- 9 FAMILY LIMITATION, SEXUAL CONTROL, AND DOMESTIC FEMINISM IN VICTORIAN AMERICA (DANIEL SCOTT SMITH, page 222)
- 10 WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES ON THE OVERLAND TRAIL TO CALIFORNIA AND OREGON, 1842-1867 (JOHNNY FARAGHER and CHRISTINE STANSELL, page 246)
- 11 THE LIFE CYCLES AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN ETHNIC GROUPS: Irish, Germans, and Native-born Whites in Buffalo, New York, 1855 (LAURENCE A. GLASCO, page 268)
- 12 LIFE IN THE BIG HOUSE (EUGENE D. GENOVESE, page 290)
- 13 MARITAL AND SEXUAL NORMS AMONG SLAVE WOMEN (HERBERT G. GUTMAN, page 298)
- 14 THE FEMALE WORLD OF LOVE AND RITUAL: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America (CARROLL SMITH-ROSENBERG, page 311)
- 15 "WHERE ARE THE ORGANIZED WOMEN WORKERS?" (ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS, page 343)
- 16 A MOTHER'S WAGES: Income Earning Among Married Italian and Black Women, 1896-1911 (ELIZABETH H. PLECK, page 367)
- 17 OUR OWN KIND: Family and Community Networks in Providence (JUDITH E. SMITH, page 393)
- 18 FEMALE SUPPORT NETWORKS AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman (BLANCHE WIESEN COOK, page 412)
- 19 BIRTH CONTROL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION (LINDA GORDON, page 445)
- 20 COOKBOOKS AND LAW BOOKS: The Hidden History of Career Women in Twentieth-Century America (FRANK STRICKER, page 476)
- 21 TIME SPENT IN HOUSEWORK (JOANN VANEK, page 499)
- 22 WOMEN'S WORK AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: Some Lessons from the Great Depression (RUTH MILKMAN, page 507)
- 23 THE KINDRED OF VIOLA JACKSON: Residence and Family Organization of an Urban Black American Family (CAROL B. STACK, page 542)
- 24 FEMINISM AND THE CONTEMPORARY FAMILY (BARBARA EASTON, page 555)
- Suggestions for Further Reading (page 579)
- Notes on Contributors (page 584)
- Index (page 587)