Description: Women and the national experience

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Women and the national experience sources in women's history : combined volume /

Combining classic and unusual primary sources, this anthology explores the private voices and public lives of women throughout U.S. history.

Main Author:	Skinner, Ellen,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2011]
Physical Description:	xvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition:	Third edition.
Subjects:	Women -- United States -- History -- Sources. Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources.

Summary:	Combining classic and unusual primary sources, this anthology explores the private voices and public lives of women throughout U.S. history.
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references. [1.] Gender, race, and class in the colonial era. Trial (1638) / Anne Hutchinson -- Response to the most illustrious poetess, Sor Filotea De La Cruz (1691) / Sor (Sister) Juana Ines de la Crux -- Before the birth of one of her children (c. 1650) / Anne Bradstreet -- Statute outlawing interracial unions (1691) / Assembly of Virginia -- The wonders of the invisible world: trial of Susanna Martin (1692) / Cotton Mather -- A well-ordered family (1712) / Benjamin Wadsworth -- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1724) / Mary Jemison -- Letter from an indentured servant (1756) / Elizabeth Sprigs -- Letter to the Reverend Samuel Occom (Feb. 11, 1774) / Phillis Wheatley -- [2.] From revolution to republic: moral motherhood and civic mission. Letter of a loyalist lady (1774) / Ann Hulton -- Sentiments of an American woman (1780) / Esther Deberdt Reed -- Letter to Daniel Claus (June 23, 1778) / Molly Brant -- Letter to John Adams and his reply (1776) / Abigail Adams -- The Young Ladies, Academy of Philadelphia (1790) / Molly Wallace -- Letter to James Hillhouse (1795) / Judith Cocks -- Petition to divorce her husband Pedro Fages (1784-1785) / Eulalia Callis -- Excerpt from memoir (1788-1789) / Abigail Abbot Bailey -- On the equality of the sexes (1790) / Judith Sargent Murray -- Letter from Paul Revere on behalf of Deborah Sampson Gannett (1804) / Deborah Sampson Gannett -- Colored Female Religious and Moral Society of Salem, Massachusetts, Constitution (1818) -- Plan for female education (1819) / Emma Willard -- The mother at home (1833) / John S. C. Abbott -- [3.] Gendered opportunity and occupations: industrial and educational expansion. Letter from Barilla Taylor to her family (1844) / Barilla Taylor -- Lowell textile workers (1898) / Harriet Hanson Robinson -- Letters to the Voice of Industry (1846) -- Letter to Mrs. Martin (March 13, 1848) / Sarah Bagley -- Testimony before the Massachusetts legislature (1845) / Female Labor Reform Association -- Advertisement in The Liberator, "Regarding the opening of a high school for young colored ladies and misses" (March 2, 1833) / Prudence Crandall -- Letter to Mrs. Cooley (Feb. 1843) / Mary Lyon -- The evils suffered by American women and American children (1846) / Catharine Beecher -- Godey's lady's book, editor's table, copy of petition sent to Congress in 1855 (Jan. 1856) / Sarah Josepha Hale -- Editor's table, twelve reasons why women should receive a medical education (1857) / Sarah Josepha Hale -- Report on labor, proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (1851) / Betsy Cowles -- [4.] From moral reform to free love and voluntary motherhood: issues of vulnerability and sexual agency. New York City, Excerpt from First Annual Report: "Licentious Men" (1835) / Female Moral Reform Society -- Important Lectures to Females (1839) -- Friend of virtue, Died in Jaffrey, N.H., Aged 27 (1841) -- Letter to Paulina Wright Davis and the Woman's Rights Convention (1851) / Caroline Healy Dall -- Excerpt from The History of Prostitution, Its Extent, Causes, Effects throughout the World (1859) / Dr. William W. Sanger -- Letter from Lucy Stone to Antoinette Brown Blackwell (July 11, 1855) / Lucy Stone -- Letter to Women's Rights Conference, Akron, Ohio (1851) / Paulina Wright Davis -- The Unwelcome Child (1845) -- Address: The Whole Worlds Temperance Convention (September 1853) / Antoinette Brown Blackwell -- A Temperance Activist (1853) -- And the Truth Shall Make You Free (1871) / Victoria Woodhull -- "Voluntary Motherhood," Transactions of the National Council of Women (1891) / Harriot Stanton Blatch -- The New Womanhood (1904) / Winnifred Harper Cooley -- [5.] Enslaved women: race, gender, and the plantation patriarchy. Narrative of an escaped slave (1855) / Benjamin Drew -- Excerpts from a biography by her contemporaries (c. 1880) / Harriet Tubman -- The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman (1890) / Bethany Veney -- Excerpt from incidents in the life of a slave girl (1861) / Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent) -- Excerpt from behind the scenes, or thirty years a slave and four years in the White House (1868) / Elizabeth Keckley -- Journal excerpt (1838) / Fanny Kemble -- A Confederate lady's diary (1861) / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Excerpt from the secret eye (Sept. 17, 1864) / Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas -- A girls life in Virginia before the War (1895) / Letitia Burwell -- [6.] Abolitionist women and the controversy over racial equality. Address delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston (February 27, 1833) / Maria M. Stewart -- Letter to the liberator (1836) / Elizabeth Emery and Mary P. Abbott -- Letter to William Basset, a Lynn, Massachusetts, abolitionist (Dec. 1837) / Sarah Mapps Douglass -- Excerpt from the appeal: "prejudices against people of color, and our duties in relation to this subject" (1833) / Lydia Maria Child -- Pastoral letter to New England churches (1837) -- Reply to pastoral letter (1837) / Sarah Grimke -- An appeal to the woman of the nominally free states (1838) /Angelina Grimke -- Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (1838) / Angelina Grimke -- Letter to The Independent Democrat, Concord, New Hampshire (Aug. 1, 1855) / Julia Hardy Lovejoy -- "A wholesome verdict," New York Tribune (Feb. 23, 1855) / Elizabeth Jennings Graham -- Excerpt from speech (1857) / Frances Watkins Harper -- Excerpt from her autobiography (1861) / Sarah Remand -- [7.] Women's rights and the contest over woman's "place". Declaration of sentiments (1848) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- An essay on slavery and abolitionism in reference to the duty of American females (1837) / Catharine Beecher -- Recollections of a southern matron (1838) / Caroline Gilman -- Discourse on women (1849) / Lucretia Mott -- Reminiscences of the suffrage trail (c. 1881) / Emily Collins -- Ain't I a woman? (1851) / Sojourner Truth -- This is the law but where is the justice of it? (1852) / Ernestine Rose -- Marriage contract (1855) / Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell -- "Reflections on woman's dress and the record of a personal experience" (1892) / Elizabeth Smith Miller -- "A wheel within a wheel; how I learned to ride a bicycle" (1895) / Frances Willard -- [8.] Western expansion: different viewpoints, diverse stories. Cherokee women petition their tribal leaders (1817) / Nancy Ward -- Petition against Indian removal (Feb. 15, 1830) / Ladies of Steubenville, Ohio -- Letter to her mother (May 2, 1840) / Journal of Narcissa Whitman -- Letter to her family (1866) / Guri Olsdatter -- Reminiscences (1877) / Eulalia Perez -- Testimony of the widow of Prince Solano (1874) / Isadora Filomena -- Testimony "hoisting of the bear flag" (1877) / Rosalia Vallejo Leese -- Memories recalled years later for her daughter, Correnah Wilson Wright (1881) / Luzena Stanley Wilson -- "Hogs in my kitchen" (1852) / Mary Ballou -- Court trial, Mason v. Smith (1856) / Bridget (Biddy) Mason -- Labor contract for Chinese prostitutes (1886) -- [9.] The Civil War, Reconstruction: gender and racial issues. Letter to the Hon. William H. Seward (Nov. 1, 1861) / Rose O'Neal Greenhaw -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Nursing on the firing line (c. 1870) / Clara Barton -- A southern woman's story (1879) / Phoebe Yates Levy Pember -- Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (1862) / Charlotte Forten -- Excerpt from the prisoners hidden life or insane asylums unveiled (1868) / Elizabeth Packard -- "We are all bound up together," Address to the 11th National Women's Convention, New York (1866) / Frances Watkins Harper -- Why women should not seek the vote (1869) / Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- On marriage and divorce (1870) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Proceedings of the trial (1873) / Susan B. Anthony -- Excerpt from Minor v. Happersett, (1875) -- Sex in Education; Or a Fair Chance for the Girls (1873) / Edward H. Clarke -- Excerpt from bradwell v. Illinois (1873) -- Discontented women (1896) / Amelia Barr -- [10.] Separate sisterhoods: identity and division. Address to the World's Congress of Representative Women, Chicago (1893) / Anna Julia Cooper -- Present tendencies in womens education (1908) / M. Carey Thomas -- Only heroic women were doctors then (1916) / Anna Manning Comfort -- Work of the Woman's Club (1904) / Martha E.D. White -- Woman's mission and woman's clubs (1905) / Grover Cleveland -- National association of colored women, club activities (1906) -- on behalf of home protection (1884) / Frances Willard -- Bible and church degrade women (1898) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- A red record (1895) / Ida Wells Barnett -- [11.] Women's roles: Americanization and the multicultural West. Letter to her family (June 16, 1873) / Martha (Mattie) Virginia Oblinger -- Recollections of a German-Jewish woman in North Dakota, edited by Martha Thal (1882) / Sarah Thal -- Excerpt from a century of dishonor (1883) / Helen Hunt Jackson -- Life Among the Piutes: their wrongs and claims (1883) / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins -- "Our duty to dependent races," Transactions of the National Council of Women (1891) / Alice Fletcher -- The school days of an Indian girl (1900) / Zitkala-Sa -- Excerpt from at the end of the Santa Fe Trail (1932) / Sister Blandina Segale -- Interview, Federal Writers' Project (1936-1940) / Johanna July -- "Is it ignorance?" the woman's exponent (July 1, 1883) / Emmeline Wells -- Tell it all: a woman's life in polygamy (1875) / Fanny Stenhouse -- Letter to school board, a Chinese mother protests school segregation in San Francisco (1885) / Mary McGladery Tape -- [12.] Gilded age protest and women activists. What it means to be colored in the capital of the United States (1906) / Mary Church Terrell -- Bread not ballots (c. 1867) / Susan B. Anthony -- The working girls of Boston (1884) / Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor -- Investigator for the Knights of Labor (1888) / Leonora Barry -- Speech to the Womans Christian Temperance Union (1890) / Mary Elizabeth Lease -- Women as clerks in New York (1891) / Clara Lanza -- The march of the Miff children (1903) / Mother Jones -- Miss Morgan aids girl waist strikers (1909) / New York Times -- The triangle fire (1911) / Rose Schneiderman -- [13.] Progressive era: maternal politics and suffrage victory. "Conquering Little Italy," transactions of the National Council of Women (1891) -- How the NAACP began (1914) / Mary White Ovington -- The clubs of Hull House (1905) / Jane Addams -- "Good metal in our melting pot, says Miss Wald, 11 New York Times (Nov. 16, 1913) / Lillian Wald -- Excerpt from Muller v. Oregon (1908) -- National Women's Trade Union League, legislative goals (1911) -- A consistent anti to her son (1915) / Alice Duer Miller -- NAWSA convention speech (1913) / Anna Howard Shaw -- A letter to clergymen (1912) / NAWSA -- Mrs. Catt Assails Pickets (1917) / Carrie Chapman Catt -- Why the suffrage struggle must continue (1917) / Alice Paul --[14.] Post-suffrage trends and the limits of liberated behavior. Ten sex talks to young girls (1914) / Dr. Irving Steinhardt -- Prove it on me blues / Ma Rainey (Gertrude Pridgett) -- "A flapper's appeal to her parents," Outlook (Dec. 1922) / Ellen Welles Page -- U.S. Government, survey of employment conditions: the weaker sex (1917) -- The new anti-feminist campaign (1921) / Mary G. Kilbreth -- Women streetcar conductors fight layoffs (1921) -- We couldn't afford a doctor (1920) / Ann Martin -- The labor savers I use (1923) / The Farmer's Wife -- Declaration of principles (1922) / National Woman's Party -- Speech given at the Women's Interracial Conference (1920) / Charlotte Hawkins Brown -- Petting and the college campus (1925) / Eleanor Wembridge -- Letter to Margaret Sanger (1928) -- [15.] The Great Depression and the New Deal: desperate lives and women leaders. The despair of unemployed women (1932) / Meridel Le Sueur -- Shall married women work? (1936) / Ruth Shallcross -- Letter to President Roosevelt (1936) / Pinkie Pilcher -- Dust bowl diary (1934) / Ann Marie Low -- A century of progress of negro women (1933) / Mary McLeod Bethune -- Southern Women and lynching (1936) / Jessie Daniel Ames -- Letter to Walter White (1936) / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Tri-state conference on silicosis, Missouri Testimony (1940) / Frances Perkins and Alice Hamilton -- [16.] World War II and postwar trends: disruption, conformity, and counter currents. Excerpt from a wasp among eagles: a woman military test pilot in World War 2 (1999) / Ann Baumgartner Carl -- Womens place after the War (Aug. 1944) / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Postwar plans of Women workers (1946) -- Farewell to manzanar (1973) / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- "Are American moms a menace?" Ladies Home Journal (Nov. 1946) / Amram Scheinfeld -- Modern women: the lost sex (1947) / Marynia Farnham and Ferdinand Lundberg -- A lesbian recounts her Korean War military experience (1990) / Loretta Collier -- The Montgomery bus boycott (1955) / Jo Ann Gibson Robinson -- The Movement (1963) / Anne Moody -- "A purpose for Modern women," Smith College commencement speech (1955) / Governor Adlai Stevenson -- The problem that has no name (1963) / Betty Friedan -- [17.] From municipal house keeping to environmental justice. Excerpt from life in the iron mills (1861) / Rebecca Harding Davis -- Transcript to Womens Education Association (1877) / Ellen Swallow Richards -- "In behalf of clean streets", transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States, (1891) -- Autobiography, exploring the dangerous trades (1943) / Alice Hamilton -- The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Hunter Austin -- Excerpt from silent spring (1962) / Rachel Carson -- Clan of one-breasted women (1991) / Terry Tempest Williams -- Learning from love canal: 20th anniversary retrospective (1998) / Lois Gibbs -- Our stolen future, ''Theo Colborn reflects on working toward peace" (1995) / Theo Colborn -- Taking our human rights struggle to Geneva / Margie Eugene Richard -- UN address, Beijing China, "the indigenous womens network, our future, our responsibility (1995) / Winona LaDuke -- [18.] Feminist revival and women's liberation. Statement of purpose (1966) / National Organization for Women -- Excerpt from Griswold v. Connecticut (March 1965) -- Redstockings manifesto (1969) -- Statement to congress (1970) / Gloria Steinem -- An eighteen year old looks back at life (1972) / Joyce Maynard -- Rape, an act of terror (1971) -- Chicana demands (1972) -- Manifesto (1974) / National Black Feminist Organization -- Constitution (1973) / Lesbian Feminist Liberation -- General resolution lesbian/gay rights (1973) / National Organization for Women -- Womens night at the free clinic (1972) / Kathy Campbell, Terry Dalsemer, and Judy Waldman -- [19.] Contested terrain: change and resistance. Excerpt from Roe v. Wade (1973) -- The positive woman (1977) / Phyllis Schlafly -- A letter from a battered wife (1983) -- The masters tools will never dismantle the masters house (1984) / Audre Larde -- Excerpt from "confessions of a closet Baptist" (1985) / Mab Segrest -- in our time: memoir of a revolution (1999) / Susan Brownmiller -- Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee (1991) / Anita Hill -- On being nominated to the Supreme Court (1993) / Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Backlash (1992) / Susan Faludi -- [20.] Entering the twenty-first century: elusive equality. Sisterhood is global (1984) / Robin Morgan -- The beauty myth (1992) / Naomi Wolf -- Acquaintance rape: revolution and reaction (1996) / Paula Kamen -- Manifesto: young women, feminism, and the future (2000) / Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards -- A border passage: from Cairo to America: a woman's journey (2000) / Leila Ahmed -- Gender equity gap in high tech (2001) / Kathleen Slayton -- Sweatshop warriors (2001) / Miriam Ching Yoon Louie -- [21.] Women's rights: national and global perspectives. Beijing U.N. fourth world conference on women (1995) / Hillary Clinton, Speech -- Final +5 Beijing battle centers around abortion (2000) / Concerned Women for America -- Statement on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision (Jan. 22, 2008) / Senator Barack Obama -- Opposition to Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2009) / Independent Women's Forum -- Feminist historians for a new, New Deal (2009) / Open Letter to Obama -- Written testimony before Congress (2009) / Melanne Verveer -- Women's action, United States: female genital mutilation and political asylum: the case of Fauziya Kasinga (1995-1996) / Equality Now -- Radio address on Afghan women (Nov. 17, 2001) / Laura Bush -- Keep pledges to Afghan women and girls: build lasting peace (Dec. 1, 2009) / Eleanor Curti Smeal -- Demand and the debate (2004) / Dorchen A. Leidholdt -- Cincinnati's Pilarczyk bans nun from teaching (Sept. 2, 2009) / Sister Louise Akers. Combining classic and unusual primary sources, this anthology explores the private voices and public lives of women throughout U.S. history.
Physical Description:	xvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780205743155 0205743153