Voices of American Women's History from Reconstruction to the Present

Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
Herausgeber: Gunnell, Kristine Ashton

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of historical and contemporary writing by women on how race, class, religion, citizenship, marital status, and sexual identity have influenced women's lives in the United States for more than 200 years. Voices of American Women's History illustrates that gender alone has never defined women's experiences in America.

Produktdetails

• Voices of an Era
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 282mm x 218mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1030g
• ISBN-13: 9781440872464
• ISBN-10: 1440872465
• Artikelnr.: 68987159

Autorenporträt

Kristine Ashton Gunnell is a research affiliate at UCLA's Center for the Study of Women and a visiting scholar at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents
Chronology of Women's History
DOCUMENTS OF WOMEN'S HISTORY
Urban Life, 1871-1920
1. Susan B. Anthony, "Suffrage and the Working Woman" (1871)
2. Jacob Riis, "Court at 24 Baxter Street" (ca. 1888 or 1889) and Lillian
Wald, "Crowded Districts of Large Cities" (1897)
3. Hull House, Hull-House: a social settlement at 335 South Halstead
Street, Chicago; weekly program of lectures, clubs, classes, etc., March
1st, 1892 (1892)
4. Margaret Sanger, The Case for Birth Control (1917)
5. Clara Lanza, "Women Clerks in New York" (1891)
6. Elizabeth Hirschfield, "The Woman Who Talks: Card Playing During the
Day" (1897)
7. Emmet J. Scott, "Additional Letters of Negro Migrants of 1916-1918"
(1919)
Living in the Multicultural West, 1877-1920
8. Calamity Jane, The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane (1896)
9. Plural Marriage (1878)
10. Homesteads in Nebraska (1886)
11. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and
Claims (1883)
12. Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor (1881)
13. Chinese Immigration (1906)
Cultural Conflict and Changing Gender Roles in the 1920s and 1930s
14. Women's Suffrage
15. C.W. Turner, "A Flapper Girl" (1922) and Images from the Sears, Roebuck
and Co. Catalog (1923)
16. Women of the Ku Klux Klan, America for Americans: creed of Klanswomen
as interpreted by the Women of the Ku Klux Klan
17. Letter from Vada Churchill to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
18. "Mexican Young Ladies Heed the Voice of Charity" (1919) and "The
Spanish Ladies of Charity" (1919)
19. Motion Picture Production Code, or "Hays Code," (1934)
Women on the Homefront: World War II and the Cold War
20. Women in the Workforce during World War II
21. Japanese American Confinement during World War II
22. Loretta Collier, "A Lesbian Recounts her Korean War Military
Experiences" (1990)
23. Civil Defense and Fallout Shelters
24. Domesticity in the 1950s
Equal Rights Movements in the 1960s and 1970s
25. Challenging Segregation
26. Geneva Mathiasen, "The War on Poverty as it Affects Older Americans"
(1965)
27. Loving v. Virginia (1967)
28. Betty Friedan, "Judge Carswell and the 'Sex Plus's Doctrine" (1970) and
the Testimony of Myra K. Wolfgang (1970)
29. Michelle Wallace, "Anger in Isolation: A Black Feminist's Search for
Sisterhood" (1975)
30. "Miss America Pageant Protest" (1968) and Carol Hanisch, "What Can Be
Learned: A Critique of the Miss America Protest" (1968)
Pushing Boundaries in the 1980s and 1990s
31. Andrea Dworkin, "Pornography as a Civil Rights Issue" (1986)
32. Elizabeth Glaser, "Pediatric AIDS" (1990)
33. Anita Hill, Testimony at the Clarence Thomas Hearings (1991)
34. Rosalynn Carter, "Caregiving" (1998)
35. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, "Women, Men, and Children in Need" (1996)
36. Hillary Clinton, "Women's Rights are Human Rights" (1995)
Contemporary Voices: Challenging Stereotypes and Confronting Violence
37. Condoleezza Rice, Opening Remarks to the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (2004)
38. Michelle Brané, "Crossing the Border: Immigrants in Detention" (2007)
39. Lenore Skenazy, Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had
Without Going Nuts with Worry (2009)
40. Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
41. "Missing and Murdered: Confronting the Silent Crisis in Indian Country"
(2018)
42. Feminista Jones, Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists are Changing
the World from the Tweets to the Streets (2019)
43. Testimony from Rosa Walker during "Ensuring Women Can Thrive in a
Post-Pandemic Economy" Hearings (2022)
Bibliography
Index