Women, Families and Communities, Volume 2

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-08-17
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary

Each article is accompanied by illustrations, as well as a list of readings and Web sites for further research. The individual volumes surround distinct and significant themes: conquest of land and peoples and the impact on women and families; the affects of war on the daily lives of women and communities; the dynamic relations between family, labor and the market economy; womenrs"s activism and political change; sexual violence and womenrs"s agency; and the interplay of race, class and gender in the lives of women and their families and communities. These threads allow students and teachers to build on earlier readings and discussions as they move through the semester. Womenrs"s history, Slavery, family, labor, womenrs"s activism, political change, sexual violence and womenrs"s agency, race, class and gender.US Survey, Womenrs"s History Survey

Table of Contents

New World Orders
Jamestown
Slavery and the Slave Trade
Ways of the Household
Negotiating Sex and Gender in the 18th Century
Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village
A Mans World: Family Life in the Chesapeake
Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California
The Revolution and Early Republic
The day of jubilee is come
Eggs on the Sand: Domestic Servants and their Children in Federal New England
The Modernization of Greenleaf and Abigail Patch: Land, Family and Marginality in the New Republic
The Antebellum Era
Women and Politics in the Era before Seneca Falls
Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears
I Could Not Stay There: Enslaved Women, Truancy and the Geography of Everyday Forms of Resistance in the Antebellum Plantation South
Sex, Gender, Culture and a Great Event: The California Gold Rush
Civil War and the Reconstruction of Race and Gender Relations
Doing a Mans Business
Marching Without a Lance
The reform of rape law and the problem of white men: age-of-consent campaigns in the South, 1885-1910
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