America's Women

Collins chronicles a history-spanning book rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters and 400 years of women--dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines.

Gail Collins is the editorial page editor at the New York Times -- the first woman to hold this position. Prior to that, she was a columnist for the paper's op-ed page, a member of the editorial board, and a columnist for the New York Daily News and New York Newsday

Introduction	p. xiii
The First Colonists: Voluntary and Otherwise	p. 1
The Women of New England: Goodwives, Heretics, Indian Captives, and Witches	p. 23
Daily Life in the Colonies: Housekeeping, Children, and Sex	p. 47
Toward the Revolutionary War	p. 67
1800-1860: True Women, Separate Spheres, and Many Emergencies	p. 85
Life Before the Civil War: Cleanliness and Corsetry	p. 115
African American Women: Life in Bondage	p. 140
Women and Abolition: White and Black, North and South	p. 161
The Civil War: Nurses, Wives, Spies, and Secret Soldiers	p. 188
Women Go West: Pioneers, Homesteaders, and the Fair but Frail	p. 208
The Gilded Age: Stunts, Shorthand, and Study Clubs	p. 238
Immigrants: Discovering the "Woman's Country"	p. 258
Turn of the Century: The Arrival of the New Woman	p. 279
Reforming the World: Suffrage, Temperance, and Other Causes	p. 304
The Twenties: All the Liberty You Can Use in the Backseat of a Packard	p. 327
The Depression: Ma Perkins and Eleanor Roosevelt	p. 350
World War II: "She's Making History, Working for Victory"	p. 371
The Fifties: Life at the Far End of the Pendulum	p. 397
The Sixties: The Pendulum Swings Back with a Vengeance	p. 421
Epilogue	p. 443
Acknowledgments	p. 451
Notes	p. 453
Bibliography	p. 511
Index	p. 541
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