Women of America A History Author:Carol Berkin (Editor), Mary Beth Norton (Editor) Examines the development of the role of women in American society, economy, law, and education. — Part I : Introduction -- — Women and American history / Mary Beth Norton and Carol Ruth Berkin -- — Women's lives transformed : demographic and family patterns in America, 1600-1970 / Robert V. Wells -- — Part II : colonial America... more » to 1800 --
The myth of the Golden Age / Mary Beth Norton --
A cherished spirit of independence : the life of an eighteenth century Boston businesswoman / Mary Beth Norton --
The young ladies academy of Philadelphia / Ann D. Gordon --
Equality or submersion? Feme covert status in early Pennsylvania / Marylynn Salmon --
Women of light / Mary Maples Dunn --
Part III : Nineteenth-century America --
The paradox of 'Women's sphere" / Mary Beth Norton --
Private woman, public woman : the contradictions of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Carol Ruth Berkin --
The founding of Mount Holyoke College / Kathryn Kish Sklar --
And we are nothing but women : Irish working women in Troy / Carol Turbin --
Chinese immigrant women in nineteenth-century California / Lucie Cheng Hirata --
Be fruitful and multiply : origins of legal restrictions on planned parenthood in nineteenth-century America / John Paull Harper -
Part IV : Twentieth-century America --
Not separate, not equal / Carol Ruth Berkin --
From aide to organizer : the oral history of Lillian Roberts / Susan Reverby --
The academic prism : the new view of American women / Rosalind Rosenberg --
Woman's place is in the war : propaganda and public opinion in the United States and Germany, 1939-1945 / Leila J. Rupp --
"A truly subversive affair" : women against lynching in the twentieth-century South / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall --
Tomorrow's yesterday : feminist consciousness and the future of women / Sara M. Evans« less