Woman: The American History of an Idea

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A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century CONTENTS Introduction: Tyranny and Mutability in the Idea of Woman 1. Woman in Seventeenth-Century America 2. Woman, Lady, and Not a Woman in the Eighteenth Century 3. Daughters of Liberty: Woman and a War of Independence 4. Woman Enters the Public Sphere: The Nineteenth Century 5. Nineteenth-Century Woman Leaves Home 6. Woman Goes to College and Enters the Professions 7. The Struggle to Transform Woman into Citizen 8. The “New Woman” and “new women” in a New Century 9. “It’s Sex o’Clock in America” 10. Woman on a Seesaw: The Depression and World War II 11. Sending Her Back to the Place Where God Had Set Her: Woman in the 1950s 12. A New “New Woman” Emerges (Carrying Baggage): The 1960s 13. Radical Women and the Radical Woman 14. How Sex Spawned a New “Woman”: The 1990s 15. “Woman” in a New Millennium Epilogue: The End of “Woman”? Notes Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index