| The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): Clinton, Catherine (Author), Lunardini, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231109202 ISBN-13: 9780231109208 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: A watershed century of women's history: 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published in the United States. 1832 Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society founded. 1839 Mississippi passes Married Women's Property Act. 1851 Sojourner Truth delivers "Aren't I a Woman" speech. 1854 Postmaster profession first to establish pay equity for male and female employees. 1866 Equal Rights Association founded by, among others, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1870s Esther McQuigg Morris becomes first woman judge in the United States. 1873 Victoria Woodhull and Frederick Douglass run for president and vice president on the People's Party ticket. 1881 Eliza Ann Otis becomes first woman reporter for the Los Angeles Times. 1894 University of California awards first engineering degree to a woman graduate. 1896 National Association of Colored Women founded; Dr. Mary Church Terrell elected first president. 1920 Women's suffrage amendment ratified as Nineteenth Amendment. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Reference |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 98-50373 |
| Lexile Measure: 1300 |
| Series: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.24" W x 9.19" (1.34 lbs) 364 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The experience of women in the nineteenth century has generated a wealth of interdisciplinary research in recent decades. The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century presents the best of the recent scholarship available in a concise, "one-stop" resource, providing students of women's history and nineteenth-century American culture with an authoritative source of information and interpretation. The authors emphasize areas in which scholars have identified important changes (such as suffrage and reform), topics in which researchers are now making great strides (such as racial, ethnic, religious, and regional diversity), and innovative and relatively recent explorations (for example, work on female sexuality). Accessible overview articles and alphabetical encyclopedia-like entries are combined in a comprehensive, easy-to-use volume. Part 1 contains a historiographical essay followed by a ten-chapter narrative overview. These chapters include discussions of families and households, labor and the workforce, religion and morality, feminism and equal rights, reform and voluntarism, and more. Part 2 is an A-to-Z listing of concise entries on key terms, notable figures, political movements, social and religious organizations, and legislation. Part 3 is an annotated chronology placing events in historical context. Part 4 is a topically organized selection of the best resources for further research, including general historical works, biographies and autobiographies, journals, archives, web sites, novels, and films. |