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The female experience in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America : a guide to the history of American women /
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1985, ©1982.
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Table of Contents:
- Section I. American culture and society, 1750-1840. General works: bibliography; Medical literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: bibliography; Demography and family life: bibliography; Contemporary printed souces on marriage and the family: bibliography; Male and female autobiographies, diaries, and letters commenting on family life: bibliography; Child rearing: bibliography; Legal status of women: bibliography; Travel accounts and memoirs commenting on the place of women in American society: bibliography; Histories by women of the revolutionary and early national periods: bibliography; Women missionaries, religious, and evangelists of the early national period: bibliography.
- Section II. Industrialization, women's work, and the transformation of the household, 1810-1910. General works: bibliography; Early industrialization: bibliography; Domestic service: bibliography; Prostitution: bibliography; Industrialization after 1840: bibliography; White-collar workers: bibliography; Technology and the household: bibliography; Urbanization, technological change, and domestic science: bibliography; Histories of technology, biographical writings, and secondary materials dealing with urbanization and domestic life: bibliography; Women as consumers: bibliography.
- Section III. Cultural roles of middle-class women in industrializing America: schools, literacy, and women's intellectual work. Education and the teaching profession: bibliography; Women's philanthropy and the emergence of the service professions, 1830-1910. General works: bibliography; Social works: bibliography; Nursing: bibliography; Librarianship: bibliography; Women's clubs: bibliography; Women writers and journalists; General works: bibliography; Selected authors and works of importance for the study of women's fiction, poetry, and journalism: bibliography; Secondary works on women's fiction and journalism: bibliography.
- Section IV. Women's religious life and the reform tradition, 1790-1860. General works: bibliography; Women in the antislavery movement; Secondary sources: bibliography; Primary sources illustrating women's participation in the antislavery movement: bibliography; Reform communities; General works: bibliography; Millenial communities: bibliography; Perfected societies on earth: bibliography; Mormonism: bibliography; Unitarianism: bibliography.
- Section V. Women and politics, 1776-1930. Women in the American revolution; Women as patriots and military figures: bibliography; "First Ladies": bibliography; Loyalist women: bibliography; Women as citizens: the New Jersey case: bibliography; Feminism: bibliography; Sources for the analysis of antifeminism; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century women; Antifeminists: bibliography; Male antisuffragist writing: bibliography; The battle for the vote: sources and historical analysis: bibliography; Trades-union women: bibliography; Radicals and anarchists: bibliography; The temperance movement: bibliography; Women seekers of elective office: the first generation: bibliography.
- Section VI. Biology and domestic life: evolutionary thought and its impact, 1830-1900. Medical views of female disorders: health manuals and histories of medicine: bibliography; Women and the health-reform movement: bibliography; Marriage manuals and advice about sex roles: bibliography; Index.