Women and the Making of America

Name: Women and the Making of America
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ISBN: 9780138126872

ISBN-10: 0138126879

ISBN-13: 9780138126872

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mari Jo Buhle, Teresa Murphy, Jane Gerhard

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A chronological survey of the role and experience of women in American history,Women and the Making of Americaexamines the issue of power in womenrsquo;s lives and womenrsquo;s history. Examining relationships between men and women as well as the diverse experiences of different women, the book explores how women were central to the making of Americarsquo;s history.

Book details

List price: $106.65
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Jane Gerhard is lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University.



[Volume II: Chapters 11-22]



The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900


On the Range and in Mining Communities


Home on the Range


The Sporting Life


Domesticity on the Mining Frontier


Mormon Settlements


The Doctrine of Plural Marriage


ldquo;The Mormon Questionrdquo;


The Womanrsquo;s Vote in Utah


Spanish-Speaking Women of the Southwest


Landowning Elite


Communal Villagers


Urban Householders


Building Communities in the Heartland


Homestead Act & Immigration


Womanrsquo;s Work, Never Done


Turning Wilderness into ldquo;Civilizationrdquo;


The Patrons of Husbandry


Indian Women, Conquest and Survival


Nez Perce


Plains Indians


Southern Ute



New Women


New Industries, New Jobs


Manufacturing


Retail Sales and Office Work


Domestic Service


New Immigrants


Italians


Jews


Chinese


The New South


Tenant Farming and Sharecropping


Domestic Service


Textiles and Mill Villages


New Professions