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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
CONTENTS
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
SEARCHABLE TERMS
About the Author
Praise for Gail Collins and America’s Women
ALSO BY GAIL COLLINS
Copyright
About the Publisher
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