American Women's History

Regions Drift Apart: Womanhood, Labor, and Regionalism 96 Class Relations and Women's Activism: Constructing a Deserving Poor 99 Conclusion 102 Bibliography 102 8 Disunion, 1850-1860 104 The Dred Scott Decision: Women's Intimate Lives, Marriage, and American's Crisis over Slavery 105 From the Margins to the Center: Abolitionism and Women's Activism in the Antebellum Period 107 The Crisis of 1850, Women in the West, and Women's Activism 110 Conclusion 112 Bibliography 113 9 The Civil War: Women's Homefronts and Battlefields 114 Harriet Tubman: Foot Soldier of Emancipation and War Veteran 114 1861: The Beginning 115 Bloody Realities 117 1862: A War for Emancipation 118 Escalating Casualties and Advances in Sanitation 119 1863: Battlefields and Homefronts 120 Joining the Fight: Soldiers with Female Bodies 122 1864: Women Face Hard War 123 1865: Emancipation, Lincoln's Assassination, and Reunion 124 Conclusion 125 Bibliography 125 10 Reconstruction and the Rise of Jane Crow 127 The Emancipation Generation 128 Fighting for Freedom: An Era of Hope and Promise 129 Reform and Reconstruction: Women's Rights and African American Civil Rights Clash 133 Creating an Old South to Build a New South: Southern Women 135 New Waves of Immigration: New Americans, Old Prejudices, and the Era of Chinese Exclusion 136 Conclusion: Freedom Dream Deferred and the Gradual Arrival of Jane Crow 139 Bibliography 140 Part III Melissa E. Blair 143 11 New Women: 1890-1920 145 African American Women's Activism, 1890s-1920 146 Marriage, Children, and Family Life 148 Women and Work at the Turn of the Century 150 The Progressive Movement 152 The Final Path to Women's Suffrage 155 Bibliography 158 12 Women Between the Wars, 1920-1945 160 Work, Family, and Sexuality in the 1920s 161 After Suffrage: Women's Politics in the 1920s 164 The Great Depression 167 World War II 170 Bibliography 173 13 The Long Fifties, 1945-65 175 The Civil Rights Movement 176 Babies, Suburbs, and Politics: White Middle- Class Lives 180 Sexuality and the Cold War 183 Women and Work in an Age of Abundance 186 Bibliography 188 14 Changes Everywhere, 1965-1980 190 Feminism and Structural Change 191 Black Feminism, Chicana Feminism, and Race- Based Organizing 196 Demographics of Women's Lives in the 1970s: Family Change and Economic Collapse 200 Women and the Rise of the New Right 201 Bibliography 203 15 Women in Contemporary America, 1980-2020 205 The Fights Continue: Gay Rights and Abortion Rights 206 Daily Life at the Turn of the Century: Work, Immigration, and Family 209 Partisan Politics and Grassroots Activism 213 Popular Culture at the Turn of the Century: Contradictory Images of Women 217 Bibliography 219 Index 221