Second to None: From the sixteenth century to 1865
Second to None: From the sixteenth century to 1865

Author: Ruth Barnes Moynihan

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9780803281998

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"Here are women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims. In diaries, letters, speeches, songs, petitions, essays, photographs, and cartoons they describe, rejoice, exhort, complain, advertise, and joke, revealing women's role as community builders in every time and locale and registering their emergence into the public spheres of political, social, and economic life. The documents also demonstrate the value of gender analysis, for women's differences--in age, race, sexual orientation, class, geographical or ethnic origin, abilities or disabilities, and values--are shown to be as important as their commonalities."--Book cover.

Women of Colonial America
Women of Colonial America

Author: Brandon Marie Miller

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2016-02-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1556525397

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New York Public Library Teen Book List In colonial America, hard work proved a constant for most women—some ensured their family's survival through their skills, while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as indentured servants or slaves. Yet even in a world defined entirely by men, a world where few thought it important to record a female's thoughts, women found ways to step forth. Elizabeth Ashbridge survived an abusive indenture to become a Quaker preacher. Anne Bradstreet penned her poems while raising eight children in the wilderness. Anne Hutchinson went toe-to-toe with Puritan authorities. Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse built a trade empire in New Amsterdam. And Eve, a Virginia slave, twice ran away to freedom. Using a host of primary sources, author Brandon Marie Miller recounts the roles, hardships, and daily lives of Native American, European, and African women in the 17th and 18th centuries. With strength, courage, resilience, and resourcefulness, these women and many others played a vital role in the mosaic of life in the North American colonies.

Second to None: From 1865 to the present
Second to None: From 1865 to the present

Author: Ruth Barnes Moynihan

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780803282049

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"Here are women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims. In diaries, letters, speeches, songs, petitions, essays, photographs, and cartoons they describe, rejoice, exhort, complain, advertise, and joke, revealing women's role as community builders in every time and locale and registering their emergence into the public spheres of political, social, and economic life. The documents also demonstrate the value of gender analysis, for women's differences--in age, race, sexual orientation, class, geographical or ethnic origin, abilities or disabilities, and values--are shown to be as important as their commonalities."--Book cover.

What American Women Did, 1789-1920
What American Women Did, 1789-1920

Author: Linda Miles Coppens

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-07-25

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1476605513

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This reference book chronicles what American women did from the emergence of the republic through the end of World War I and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. A broad spectrum of activities are depicted, showing their many accomplishments and how their activities affected the world around them. It was an era of great transition for all women. A who's who of American women and some men (those who showed great support or, ironically, great opposition to women's reform) are described one year at a time, beginning with 1789 and ending with 1920. Each year's activities are organized into seven possible categories: domesticity, work, education, religion, the arts, the law and politics, and joining forces. The book is thoroughly indexed.

The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter
The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter

Author: Bonnie S. Anderson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0199756244

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The first modern biography of one of the nineteenth century's most prominent radical activists, written by an acclaimed senior feminist historian.

America, History and Life
America, History and Life

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13:

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Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.