" Cutter argues that" redemptive womanhood"--The idea that women hold active
responsibility for the nation's moral and religious health-is the key element of gender …

This book offers a look at how the lives of women changed in the era when the United States
emerged. Spanning the broad spectrum of Colonial-era life, Women's Roles in Eighteenth …

In the first half of the nineteenth century, women in America were powerless creatures
confined to a life which revolved around their home and the duties it required. Generally …

A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our
national history. The American women who worked for our country's indepence in 1776 …

This volume fills a gap in traditional women's history books by offering fascinating details of
the lives of early American women and showing how these women adapted to the …

Keith E. Melder, Beginnings of Sisterhood: The American Woman's Rights Movement, 1800-1850
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During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female
charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization that would …

One of the first impulses of the feminist historians in the early 1970s who set about
discovering women's past was simply to chart the course of sexual inequality and the …

It is the men, Hector tells Andromache in the sixth book of the Iliad, who" must see to the
fighting." From ancient history to our own time, war has centered on men, for they have …

Drawing on war propaganda, popular advertising, voluminous government records, and
hundreds of letters and other accounts written by women in the 1940s, Melissa A. McEuen …