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Table of Contents

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Chapter 6. Reconstructing Women’s Lives North and South, 1865–1900 
Gender and the Postwar Constitutional Amendments 
Women’s Lives in Southern Reconstruction and Redemption 
Reading into the Past Mary Tape, “What Right Have You?”
Female Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 
Reading into the Past Leonora Barry, “Women in the Knights of Labor”
Women of the Leisured Classes 
Conclusion: Toward a New Womanhood 
PRIMARY SOURCES Ida B. Wells, “Race Woman” 
PRIMARY SOURCES The Woman Who Toils 
PRIMARY SOURCES The Higher Education of Women in the Postbellum Years 
PRIMARY SOURCES The New Woman 
 
Chapter 7. Women in an Expanding Nation: Consolidation of the West, Mass Immigration, and the Crisis of the 1890s 
Consolidating the West 
Late Nineteenth-Century Immigration 
Reading into the Past Emma Goldman, “Living My Life”
Century’s End: Challenges, Conflict, and Imperial Ventures 
Reading into the Past Clemencia Lopez, Women of the Philippines
Conclusion: Nationhood and Womanhood on the Eve of a New Century 
PRIMARY SOURCES Representing Native American Women in the Late Nineteenth Century 
PRIMARY SOURCES Jane Addams, “Twenty Years at Hull House” 
PRIMARY SOURCES Jacob Riis’s Photographs of Immigrant Girls and Women 
 
Chapter 8. Power and Politics: Women in the Progressive Era, 1900–1920 
The Female Labor Force 
The Female Dominion 
*Reading into the Past Argument for the State of Oregon in Muller v. Oregon (The “Brandeis Brief”)
Votes for Women 
The Emergence of Feminism 
Reading into the Past Margaret Sanger, “Woman and Birth Control”
The Great War, 1914–1918 
Reading into the Past Black Women Write about the Great Migration
Conclusion: New Conditions, New Challenges 
*PRIMARY SOURCES Voices from the Suffrage Movement 
PRIMARY SOURCES Parades, Picketing, and Power: Women in Public Space 
PRIMARY SOURCES Uncle Sam Wants You: Women and World War I Posters 
PRIMARY SOURCES Modernizing Womanhood 
 
Chapter 9. Change and Continuity: Women in Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1920–1945 
Prosperity Decade: The 1920s 
Depression Decade: The 1930s 
*Reading into the Past Meridel LeSueur, “Women on the Breadlines” (1932) 
*Reading into the Past Luisa Moreno, “Caravan of Sorrows” (1940)
Working for Victory: Women and War, 1941–1945 
Reading into the Past Mary McLeod Bethune, “Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt” (1940)
Conclusion: The Modern Woman in Ideal and Reality 
*PRIMARY SOURCES Women Use Their Votes in the 1920s 
PRIMARY SOURCES Beauty Culture Between the Wars 
PRIMARY SOURCES Dorothea Lange’s Photographs of the Great Depression and World War II 
PRIMARY SOURCES Voices of “Rosie the Riveter” 
 
Chapter 10. Beyond the Feminine Mystique: Women’s Lives, 1945–1965 
Family Culture and Gender Roles 
*Reading into the Past Betty Friedan, “The Sexual Sell”
Women’s Activism in Conservative Times 
A Mass Movement for Civil Rights 
Reading into the Past Casey Hayden and Mary King, Women in the Movement
*Reading into the Past The “Moynihan Report”
Women and Public Policy 
*Reading into the Past Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood, “Jane Crow and the Law”
Conclusion: The Limits of the Feminine Mystique 
PRIMARY SOURCES Television’s Prescriptions for Women 
*PRIMARY SOURCES Girls and Young Women in the Civil Rights Movement 
 
Chapter 11. Modern Feminism and American Society, 1965–1980 
Roots of Sixties Feminism 
Reading into the Past National Organization for Women, “Women’s Bill of Rights”
Women’s Liberation and the Sixties Revolutions 
Ideas and Practices of Women’s Liberation 
Diversity, Race, and Feminism 
The Impact of Feminism 
Reading into the Past Forced Sterilization
Changing Public Policy and Public Consciousness 
Conclusion: Feminism’s Legacy 
PRIMARY SOURCES Feminism and the Drive for Equality in the Workplace 
PRIMARY SOURCES Women’s Liberation 
*PRIMARY SOURCES Jane, the Underground Abortion Collective 
 
Chapter 12. U.S. Women in Decisive Times, 1980–Present 
Political and Cultural Backlash
Feminism after the Second Wave 
Reading into the Past  LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, The Meaning of the Standing Rock Protests
Women and Politics 
Reading into the Past  Ilhan Omar, First Muslim Somali American Lawmaker
The Abortion Wars 
Women’s Lives in Modern America  
*Reading into the Past Maria Gabriela Pacheco, “The Trail of Dreams”
Conclusion: Women in the Twenty-First Century 
*PRIMARY SOURCES LGBTQ+ Lives in the Third Wave 
 
APPENDIX: DOCUMENTS 
APPENDIX: TABLES AND CHARTS 

Authors

Ellen Carol DuBois

Ellen Carol DuBois (PhD, Northwestern University) is Distinguished Research Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (winner of the 1998 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History from the American Historical Association); and Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights. With Vicki L. Ruiz, she coedited the influential anthology Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women’s History. With Vinay Lal, she is coauthor of A Passionate Life: Writings By and About Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. Her newest book, Suffrage: Women’s Long Road to the Ballot Box, appeared in 2020, the first comprehensive history of the American woman suffrage movement in a half century.

Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History, Emerita, at Occidental College. She has written The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s, and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880–1930. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, Reviews in American History, and the American Historical Review.

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Brenda Stevenson

Brenda Elaine Stevenson (PhD, Yale University) is the inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women’s History at the University of Oxford and the inaugural Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the award-winning monographs: Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South; and The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots. She is also the author of What Is Slavery?; the editor of the Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké; and the co-author of The Underground Railroad. Her new monograph, What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family, appeared in April 2023. She was appointed by President Biden to serve on the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board in 2022.

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Through Women's Eyes, Volume 1

Ellen DuBois; Lynn Dumenil; Brenda Stevenson | Sixth Edition | 2024 | ISBN:9781319507534

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