Women's America

Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts, Professor of History Emerita, and Lecturer in Law at the University of Iowa.Jane Sherron De Hart is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Cornelia H. Dayton is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.Karissa Haugeberg, Associate Professor, holds the Eva-Lou Joffrion Edwards Newcomb Professorship in History at Tulane University.

• Part I. EARLY NORTH AMERICA, 1600-1800 Indigenous Women's WorldsHelen C. Rountree, A Typical Day's Work for Tsenacomoco Women and GirlsAnn Marie Plane, Childbirth Practices among North American Indigenous Women Dislocations and Violence in the Atlantic African DiasporaJennifer L. Morgan, <"Some Could Suckle Over their Shoulder:> " Male Travelers, Female BodiesJudith A. Carney, Toiling in the Carolina Rice Fields DOCUMENTSVirginia Establishes a Double Standard in Tax LawVirginia's 1662 Law Defining Race-Based EnslavementA Massachusetts Minister's Slave Marriage Vows Settler HouseholdsMary Beth Norton, An Indentured Servant Identifies as <"Both Man and Woeman> ": Jamestown, 1629Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Three Inventories, Three HouseholdsCornelia Hughes Dayton, Taking the Trade: Sarah Grosvenor's Abortion DOCUMENTSEnglish Jurist William Blackstone Defines CovertureWidow Mary Collins's Probate Inventory An Early Divorce Law and Sarah Welsher's Petition Disorderly WomenCarol F. Karlsen, Inheriting Women and Witchcraft Accusations DOCUMENT<"You have stept out of your place> ": The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 Three Eighteenth-Century LivesAnn M. Little, Esther Wheelwright Becomes an Ursuline NunJessica Marie Johnson, Marie Baude, a Free African woman, Arrives in New OrleansSusan Hanket Brandt, Hannah Freeman, Lenape Healer, Persists near her Homelands Revolutionary Legacies DOCUMENTSPhiladelphia Women Raise Money Door to DoorSarah Osborn, Woman of the ArmyDeborah Sampson Gannett, SoldierGrace Growden Galloway, LoyalistRachel Wells, <"I have Don as much to Carrey on the War as maney . . .> " Linda K. Kerber, Republican Mothers and Women CitizensAnnette Gordon-Reed, The Hemings-Jefferson Treaty: Paris, 1789 Part II. MANY FRONTIERS, 1800-1880 WorkplacesJeanne Boydston, The Pastoralization of HouseworkSharon Block, Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic DOCUMENTEliza R. Hemmingway and Sarah Bagley Testify on Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845 Enslavers' HouseholdsStephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Mistresses in the MakingThavolia Glymph, Women in Slavery: The Gender of Violence Intimacy and Bodily ControlCarroll Smith-Rosenberg, The Female World of Love and RitualJames C. Mohr, The Abortion Landscape, 1800-1880Kim E. Nielsen, A Female Physician Is Institutionalized Activists and ReformGerda Lerner, The Meaning of Seneca FallsRose Stremlau, <"I Know What an Indian Woman Can Do> ": Sarah Winnemucca Writes about the Northern Paiute Frontier DOCUMENTSThe Grimké Sisters Talk Truth to PowerKeziah Kendall Protests CovertureThe Declaration of Sentiments, 1848New York's Married Women's Property ActsAmelia Bloomer, the Short Dress, and the Media BacklashSojourner Truth's Visiting Card Nineteenth-Century LivesHelen Wright et al., Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and College ProfessorJen Manion, Female Husbands and Their WivesTiya Miles, Harriet Tubman, Night FlyerMiroslava Chávez-García, Guadalupe Trujillo and Her Servant, Ysabel Civil War and Its AftermathsStephanie McCurry, Women Numerous and Armed: Politics and Policy on the Confederate Home FrontLeslie A. Schwalm, Enslaved Mothers: Claiming Freedom and Risking DeathTera W. Hunter, Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom DOCUMENTSA.S. Hitchcock, I Would Treat Them as VagabondsReconstruction Amendments, 1865, 1868, 1870Victoria Woodhull and the <"Feminine Invasion of the Capitol> "Supreme Court Test Cases: Bradwell v. Illinois and Minor v. Happersett Part III. MODERN AMERICA EMERGES, 1880-1945 Women in the WestPeggy Pascoe, Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook Indian Wife: Miscegenation LawsJudy Yung, Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco's Chinatown DOCUMENTS: Women in the WestChinese Exclusion: The Page Act and Its AftermathZitkála- S?á, The Americanization of Native American Children DOCUMENTS: Gender and the Jim Crow SouthIda B. Wells, Southern Horrors (with an introduction by Patricia A. Schechter)Mary McLeod Bethune, How the Bethune-Cookman College Campus Started Change AgentsKathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and Women's Activism in the Progressive EraAnnelise Orleck, From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City DOCUMENTSPauline Newman, Life in the Garment DistrictCrystal Eastman, Now We Can Begin Suffrage and CitizenshipLiette Gidlow, African American Women and the Rise of a 'Woman's Vote' DOCUMENTSMackenzie v. Hare, 1915Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920Equal Rights Amendment, 1921, 1923 Jazz Age GirlhoodsVicki L. Ruiz, The Flapper and the Chaperone: Mexican American Teenagers in the SouthwestJoan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of SlendernessMargaret D. Jacobs, Resisting Assimilation: Young Indigenous Women Working in White Households DOCUMENTS: Debates over Birth Control AccessThe Comstock ActEmma Goldman's Mug Shot, 1901Margaret Sanger, Contraception for All Women Women, Policy, and Labor in the 1930sBlanche Wiesen Cook, Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human RightsBrenda J. Child, Ojibwe Knocking Sticks: How Labor Changed on the Great Lakes during the DepressionAlexandra Minna Stern, Sara Rosas Garcia Sues to Block Her Daughter's Sterilization DOCUMENTPauli Murray, The Making of Jane Crow Women and WarBeth Bailey and David Farber, The Women of Hotel Street during World War IIAlice Kessler-Harris, Rethinking Women's Work during World War II DOCUMENTThe Forced Removal of Japanese Americans Part IV. A TRANSFORMING WORLD, 1945-2018 Personal Lives in the Cold WarDaniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan, Labor Radicalism, and FeminismDawn Bohulano Mabalon, Filipino Women Who Built Communities, Sustained FamiliesDanielle L. McGuire, Rosa Parks and the Struggle for Black Women's Bodily IntegrityLauren Jae Gutterman, Lesbian Desire, Marriage, and the Household DOCUMENTSBetty Friedan, The Problem that Has No NamePhyllis Schlafly, Difference, Not Equality Legal Feminism in the 1960sJane Sherron De Hart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Making of a Feminist Advocate DOCUMENTSHoyt v. Florida, 1961, and Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964Loving v. Virginia, 1967 Organizing against InjusticeKatherine Turk, The Creation of the National Organization for Women in June 1966Mary Ellen Curtin, Barbara Jordan: How She Changed the NationLina-Marie Murillo, Race and Abortion in the US-Mexico BorderlandsKarissa Haugeberg, Women's Experiences with Abortion before and after Dobbs DOCUMENTS: Women's ActivismRadicalesbians, The Woman-Identified Woman, 1970Johnnie Tillmon, Welfare is a Woman's Issue, 1972Lily Lee Adams, Vietnam Taught Me a LotThe Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977Jo Carrillo, And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures with You (poem), 1981 DOCUMENTS: Reshaping the LawEqual Rights Amendment, 1972Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973 Remaking CitizenshipNancy F. Cott, How History Matters in Obergefell v. HodgesNicole Bateman and Martha Ross, Why Was Covid-19 Especially Harmful for Working Women? DOCUMENTSMeritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986Anita Hill's Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1991Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 2009Women's March, 2017Jennifer Finney Boylan, The First Time I Said, <"I'm Trans,> " 2020Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with supporting remarks by Pramila Jayapal, Brenda L. Lawrence, Ayanna Pressley, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Barbara Lee, and Ilhan Omar, A Question of Personal Privilege, 2020