TY - BOOK AU - Evans,Sara M. TI - Born for liberty: a history of women in America SN - 0029029902 (paperback) AV - HQ1410 .E83 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - New York, London PB - Free Press, Collier Macmillan KW - Women KW - United States KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Political activity N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - This definitive history of American women uncovers women's lives in their domestic intimacies and their public crusades from our nation's beginnings to the Eighties ER -