I. The early colonial milieu: goodwives, shrews, and witches. The trappan'd maiden ; Examination of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson ; Church trial of Mistress Ann Hibbens ; Ordinary dealings at Suffolk County Court ; Mercy Short, bewitched ; Susanna Martin, on trial for witchcraft. -- II. An achieving society: the eighteenth century. The lady's New Year's gift, or 'Advice to a daughter' / George Savile, Marquis of Halifax ; Sarah Osborn's religious conversion ; Letter from an indentured servant ; Sally Wister's Revolutionary War-time diary ; A friend's journal in Philadelphia / Ann Head Warder ; Letters from Eliza Southgate to her cousin Moses Porter. -- III. The cult of domesticity versus social change. On "proper conduct of the wife towards her husband" / Samuel Jennings ; On American women and American wives / Alexis de Tocqueville ; Lucy Larcom's factory experience ; "Susan Miller," a story by F. G. A., a Lowell operative ; From 'Woman in America' / Mrs. A. J. Graves ; Petition for a ten-hour workday ; "Sweethearts and wives" / T. S. Arthur, a story from 'Godey's Lady's Book' ; On the peculiar responsibilities of American women / Catharine Beecher. -- IV. Slavery and sex. From 'Letters on the equality of the sexes' / Sarah Grimke ; Narratives from escaped slaves ; From 'An appeal to the women of the nominally free states' / Angelina Grimke ; The trials of girlhood / Linda Brent ; A Confederate lady's diary / Mary Boykin Chesnut. -- V. Nineteenth-century alternatives: pioneers and utopians. On "free enquiry" / Frances Wright ; Emigration from New York to Michigan / Harriet Noble ; Letters of Narcissa Whitman ; Conversation with a newly-wed Westerner / Eliza Franham ; Letter from the Union of Women for Association and replies ; Domestic relations in a utopian community ; Diary and letter of Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer ; Vindication of the Beecher-Tilton scandal / Victoria Woodhull. -- VI. Sexuality and gynecology in the nineteenth century. On female health in America / Catharine Beecher ; Communication from Mrs. R. B. Gleason of the Elmira Water Cure ; From 'The young woman's book of health' / William Alcott ; The murders of marriage / Mary Gove Nichols ; From 'Perils of American women' / Dr. George Austin, with Mary Livermore's recommendatory letter ; On sexual passion in men and women / Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell ; On female invalidism / Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi. -- VII. Industrialization and women's work. 'The Working Girls of Boston' ; Speak-out on domestic service ; The sweating system, charity, and organization / Ida Van Etten ; Testimony on compensation for educated women at work ; Unionization for women: the typographical union / Belva Mary Herron ; On the black woman as breadwinner / Mary White Ovington. -- VIII. Legacy of leisure: discontent. On marriage and work / Antoinette Brown Blackwell ; The snare of preparation / Jane Addams ; "The story of an hour" / Kate Chopin ; On women's evolution from economic dependence / Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Edition [1st ed.]

More than forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The far-reaching legacy of that rift is still felt today. One of Smithsonian Magazine's "Ten Best History Books of the Year" Gloria Steinem was quoted in 2015 (the New Yorker) as saying the National Women's Conference in 1977 "may take the prize as the most important event nobody knows about." After the United Nations established International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, Congress mandated and funded state conferences to elect delegates to attend the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977. At that conference, Bella Abzug, Steinem, and other feminists adopted a National Plan of Action, endorsing the hot-button issues of abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and gay rights--the latter a new issue in national politics. Across town, Phyllis Schlafly, Lottie Beth Hobbs, and the conservative women's movement held a massive rally to protest federally funded feminism and launch a Pro-Family movement. Although much has been written about the role that social issues have played in politics, little attention has been given to the historical impact of women activists on both sides. DIVIDED WE STAND reveals how the battle between feminists and their conservative challengers divided the nation as Democrats continued to support women's rights and Republicans cast themselves as the party of family values. The women's rights movement and the conservative women's movement have irrevocably affected the course of modern American history. We cannot fully understand the present without appreciating the events leading up to Houston and thereafter.

 

Winner, Best Multiauthor Nonfiction Book, International Latino Book Awards, 2019 With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance. These are the technologies of resistance documented in Chicana Movidas, a volume that brings together critical biographies of Chicana activists and their bodies of work; essays that focus on understudied organizations, mobilizations, regions, and subjects; examinations of emergent Chicana archives and the politics of collection; and scholarly approaches that challenge the temporal, political, heteronormative, and spatial limits of established Chicano movement narratives. Charting the rise of a field of knowledge that crosses the boundaries of Chicano studies, feminist theory, and queer theory, Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era offers a transgenerational perspective on the intellectual and political legacies of early Chicana feminism.

1953 Modern Library version. BOOK ONE: FACTS AND MYTHS. Part I: Destiny. The data of biology ; The psychoanalytic point of view ; The point of view of historical materialism. -- Part II: History. The nomads ; Early tillers of the soil ; Patriarchal times and classical antiquity ; Through the Middle Ages to eighteenth-century France ; Since the French Revolution: the job and the vote. -- Part III: Myths. Dreams, fears, idols ; The myth of woman in five authors ; Myth and reality. -- BOOK TWO: WOMAN'S LIFE TODAY. Part IV: The formative years. Childhood ; The young girl ; Sexual initiation ; The lesbian. -- Part V: Situation. The married woman ; The mother ; Social life ; Prostitutes and hetairas ; From maturity to old age ; Woman's situation and character. -- Part VI: Justifications. The narcissist ; The woman in love ; The mystic. -- Part VII: Toward liberation. The independent woman. Edition [1st American ed.]

"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart." --Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets "You've devoured her novels, but now Gregory shows off chops as a historian. . . . An amazing read." --The Los Angeles Times The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus--a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history. AN INDIE BESTSELLER Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's Normal Women. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women--some fifty per cent of the population--center stage. Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records, newspapers, and journals to find highwaywomen and beggars, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The "normal women" you will meet in these pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses. They committed crimes or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things, and rioted. A lot. A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural change--from 1066 to modern times--powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women. *INCLUDES ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT AND A FULL-COLOR INSERT* "An expansive, inclusive and elegantly woven nonfiction account of the lives of women in England from the Norman Conquest to the modern day. To describe it as merely a retelling is to undermine a core principle: This is a history of women in England, yes, but it is also a history of England, full stop. . . . At more than 500 pages, with extensive endnotes and a 30-page index, Normal Women is a behemoth you may be inclined to skim, until you realize you're actually luxuriating in every word." --The New York Times

A history of the changing roles and status of women in America from the seventeenth century through the 1980s.

 

The first American women -- The women who came to North America, 1607-1770 -- "But what have I to do with politicks?"; the Revolutionary era -- The Age of Association: 1820-1845 -- A time of division: 1845-1865 -- "Maternal commonwealth" in the Gilded Age: 1865-1890 -- Women and modernity: 1890-1920 -- Flappers, Freudians, and all that jazz -- Surviving the Great Depression -- Women at war: the 1940s -- The Cold War and the "Feminine Mystique" -- Decade of discovery: "the personal is political" -- The politicization of personal life: women versus women.

A practical, hands-on guide to Mexican-American folk magic. American Brujeria is about the fascinating blend of American and Mexican folk magic currently practiced by those living in the US but whose roots are steeped in Mexican culture. The author, who has named this tradition "American brujeria," explores this magical system, while also offering practical advice on using it. American brujeria is a living, vital tradition that - while it shares things in common with other folk magic traditions, such as American Conjure-also featuresits own unique traditions, as well as familiar ones, such as the veneration of saints, both canonized, such as Guadalupe, and folk saints like Santa Muerte. American Brujeria includes stories from Mexico (folk saints, the story of Guadalupe), the influence of Catholicism, the art of limpias (spiritual cleansings), spell casting, oil crafting, praying the rosary (in English and Spanish), making an altar to Guadalupe, using novena candle magic, crafting protective charms from saints' medals, and more.

Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today, she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat. In some periods, women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades--to colonize the nation, pioneer the West, and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between, economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home, confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience, Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. Fourth Edition. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new introduction by scholars Norma Cantú (University of Texas at San Antonio) and Aída Hurtado (University of California at Santa Cruz) as well as a revised critical bibliography. "The emotional and intellectual impact of the book is disorienting and powerful...all languages are spoken, and survival depends on understanding all modes of thought. In the borderlands new creatures come into being. Anzaldúa celebrates this 'new mestiza' in bold, experimental writing."--The Village Voice "Anzaldúa's pulsating weaving of innovative poetry with sparse informative prose brings us deep into the insider/outsider consciousness of the borderlands; that ancient and contemporary, crashing and blending world that divides and unites America."--Women's Review of Books