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Preface | |
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About the Editors | |
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Contributors | |
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Introduction | |
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The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier | |
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The Beginnings of the Afro-American Family in Maryland | |
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Women and Property across Colonial America | |
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Food Rioters and the American Revolution | |
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Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: "The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us" | |
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The Domestic Balance of Power: Relations Between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England | |
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Gender and Slave Labor in Antebellum New Orleans | |
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Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-slavery Movement: Angelina and Sarah Grimke in 1837 | |
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Women and Indians on the Frontier | |
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Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
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Reproductive Control and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century | |
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The Exclusion of Chinese Women, 1870-1943 | |
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Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930 | |
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Race and Womanhood: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and African-American Women in North Carolina, 1880-1900 | |
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Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers | |
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"Charity Girls" and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880-1920 | |
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Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment | |
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The Professionalization of Birth Control | |
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Why Were Most Politically Active Women Opposed to the ERA in the 1920s? | |
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Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat | |
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Redefining "Women's Work": The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry During World War II | |
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When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown | |
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Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s | |
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A New Women's Movement: The Emergence of the National Organization for Women | |
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State Building, Health Policy, and the Persistence of the American Abortion Debate | |
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Buscando La Vida: Mexican Immigrant Women's Memories of Home, Yearning, and Border Crossings | |
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Christians for Biblical Equality and the Fight for the Middle Ground | |
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Selected Links to U.S. Women's History Resource Materials on the World Wide Web | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Photo Credits | |