Beschreibung:
Nancy Woloch is a Research Scholar in the History Department, Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the prizewinning author of A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s. Her books include Muller v. Oregon, Early American Women, Eleanor Roosevelt: In Her Words, and The American Century.
The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women's history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women's experience and underscores the roles that women have played as agents of change.
1. The Seventeenth Century: A Frontier Society 2. The Eighteenth Century: The Eve of Modernity 3. Promoting Woman's Sphere, 1800-1860 4. Benevolence, Reform, and Slavery, 1800-1860 5. Civil War and Emancipation: 1860s and 1870s 6. Women at Work, 1860-1920 7. The Rise of the New Woman: 1860-1920 8. Feminism and Suffrage, 1860-1920 9. Cross-Currents: The 1920s 10. Emergencies: The 1930s and 1940s 11. High Expectations: 1950-1975 12. In Search of Equality: 1975-2000 13. Launching the Twenty-First Century: Since 2000 14. Recent Times: Issues in Motion