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Tables of Contents for Women and Power in American History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
v
Contributors
vii
Introduction
1
8
The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier
9
14
The Weaker Sex as Religious Rebel
23
12
The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland
35
20
The Beginnings of the Afro-American Family in Maryland
55
18
``To Use Her as His Wife'': An Extraordinary Paternity Suit in the 1740s
73
19
``Daughters of Liberty'': Religious Women in Revolutionary New England
92
12
Women and Outwork in Nineteenth-Century New England
104
13
The Sexual Division of Labor and the Artisan Tradition in Early Industrial Capitalism: The Case of New England Shoemaking ,1780-1860
117
10
The Domestic Balance of Power: Relations between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England
127
13
Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: ``The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us,''
140
14
Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum South
154
13
Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-slavery Movement: Angelina and Sarah Grimke in 1837
167
21
Beauty, the Beast and the Militant Woman: A Case Study in Sex Roles and Social Stress in Jacksonian America
188
14
Catharine Beecher Promotes Women's Entrance into the Teaching Profession
202
11
Women and Indians on the Frontier
213
12
Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe
225
15
Chinese Immigrant Women in Nineteenth-Century California
240
15
Reproductive Control and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century
255
20
Selected Links to U.S. Women's History Resource Materials on the Worldwide Web, 1600-1880
275
6
Suggestions for Further Reading
281
4
Photo Credits
285
2
Index
287