A Heritage of her own : toward a new social history of American women
A Touchstone book
Touchstone book.
The planter's wife: the experience of white women in seventeenth-century Maryland / Vertuous women found: New England ministerial literature, 1668-1735 / Quaker marriage patterns in a colonial perspective / Eighteenth-century family and social life revealed in Massachusetts divorce records / Eighteenth-century American women in peace and war: the case of the Loyalists / Passionlessness: an interpretation of Victorian sexual ideology, 1790-1850 / The lady and the mill girl: changes in the status of women in the age of Jackson, 1800-1850 / Beauty, the beast, and the militant woman: a case study in sex roles and social stress in Jacksonian America / Family limitation, sexual control, and domestic feminism in Victorian America / Women and their families on the Overland Trail to California and Oregon, 1842-1867 / The life cycles and household structure of American ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, and native-born whites in Buffalo, New York, 1855 / Life in the Big House / Marital and sexual norms among slave women / The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America / "Where are the organized women workers?" / A mother's wages: income earning among married Italian and Black women, 1896-1911 / Our own kind: family and community networks in Providence / Female support networks and political activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman / Birth control and social revolution / Cookbooks and law books: the hidden history of career women in the twentieth-century America / Time spent in housework / Women's work and the economic crisis: some lessons from the Great Depression / The kindred of Viola Jackson: residence and family organization of an urban Black American family / Feminism and the contemporary family
Cott, Nancy F., editor, writer of introduction.
Pleck, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Hafkin), 1945- editor, writer of introduction.
Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Robert V. Wells -- Nancy F. Cott -- Mary Beth Norton -- Nancy F. Cott -- Gerda Lerner -- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- Daniel Scott Smith -- Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell -- Laurence A. Glasco -- Eugene D. Genovese -- Herbert G. Gutman -- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- Alice Kessler-Harris -- Elizabeth H. Pleck -- Judith E. Smith -- Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Linda Gordon -- Frank Stricker -- Joann Vanek -- Ruth Milkman -- Carol B. Stack -- Barbara Easton.
edited, with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck.
