Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives

Kriste Lindenmeyer teaches history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, she has also written A Right to Childhood and edited Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives and Politics of Progress. She lives in Owings Mills, Maryland.

Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives is a superb anthology of seventeen outstanding essays.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Importance of 'Ordinary' Women's LivesPart 2 I. The Revolutionary Era and the Early Republic: Defining the American WomanChapter 3 Rebecca Dickinson: A Life Alone in the Early RepublicChapter 4 Susanna Haswell Rowson: America's First Best-Selling AuthorChapter 5 Sacagawea: A Historical EnigmaPart 6 II. The Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Era of the Common WomanChapter 7 Caroline Healey Dall: Transcendental ActivistChapter 8 Mary S. Gove Nichols: Making the Personal PoliticalChapter 9 Eliza Johnson Potter: Traveler, Entrepreneur, and Social CriticChapter 10 Ada Adelaine Adams Vogdes: 'Follow the Drum'Chapter 11 Teresa E. Wooldridge Ivey: Constructing an Ideal Southern LadyPart 12 III. The Late Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries: Inventing The New WomanChapter 13 Gertrude Osterhout: 'I Am Independent'Chapter 14 Margaret Olivia Slocum, 'Mrs. Russell Sage': Private Griefs and Public DutiesChapter 15 Nellie Wiegel: 'How About That?!'Chapter 16 Ah Cum Kee and Loy Lee Ford: Between Two WorldsChapter 17 Catherine Kenny: Fighting for the Perfect Thirty-SixthPart 18 IV. World War II and Beyond: Women Challenging Modern AmericaChapter 19 Willie Webb: One Woman's Struggle for Civil Rights during World War IIChapter 20 Ethel Thomas Herold: Doing 'Women's Work' in a Philippines at WarChapter 21 Betty Flanagan Bumpers: An 'Ordinary Mother' Dedicated to PeaceChapter 22 Margarita 'Mago' Orona Gandara: Frontera Muralist/ArtistChapter 23 About the ContributorsChapter 24 Index