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A Heritage of her own: toward a new social history of American women

Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck c1979 © Nancy Cott and Elizabeth Pleck

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American: General & Multiperiod

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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)