Epigraph
Introduction
1. The First Colonists: Voluntary and Otherwise
2. The Women of New England: Goodwives, Heretics, Indian Captives, and Witches
3. Daily Life in the Colonies: Housekeeping, Children, and Sex
4. Toward the Revolutionary War
5. 1800–1860: True Women, Separate Spheres, and Many Emergencies
6. Life Before the Civil War: Cleanliness and Corsetry
7. African American Women: Life in Bondage
8. Women and Abolition: White and Black, North and South
9. The Civil War: Nurses, Wives, Spies, and Secret Soldiers
10. Women Go West: Pioneers, Homesteaders, and the Fair but Frail
11. The Gilded Age: Stunts, Shorthand, and Study Clubs
12. Immigrants: Discovering the “Woman’s Country”
13. Turn of the Century: The Arrival of the New Woman
14. Reforming the World: Suffrage, Temperance, and Other Causes
15. The Twenties: All the Liberty You Can Use in the Backseat of a Packard
16. The Depression: Ma Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt
17. World War II: “She’s Making History, Working for Victory”
18. The Fifties: Life at the Far End of the Pendulum
19. The Sixties: The Pendulum Swings Back with a Vengeance
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
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