Born for liberty : a history of women in America / Sara M. Evans.

By: Evans, Sara M. (Sara Margaret), 1943- [author.]Material type: TextTextNew York : London : Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989©1989 Description: xii, 386 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0029029902 (paperback)Subject(s): Women -- United States -- History | Women -- United States -- Social conditions | Women -- Political activity -- United States -- HistoryLOC classification: HQ1410 .E83 1989
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.