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Through Women's Eyes, Volume 1

Sixth  Edition©2024  Ellen DuBois; Lynn Dumenil; Brenda Stevenson

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Through Women’s Eyes moves the story of how women shaped U.S. history from the margins to center stage, in a compelling narrative enriched by photos and documents from the women who have shaped our lives.

Table of Contents

* New PRIMARY SOURCE
Chapter 1. America in the World, to 1650 
Indigenous Women 
Reading into the Past Two Sisters and Acoma Origins 
Europeans Arrive 
African Women and the Atlantic Slave Trade 
Conclusion: Many Beginnings 
PRIMARY SOURCES European Images of Indigenous Women 
 
Chapter 2. Colonial Worlds, 1607–1750 
A Changed World for Indigenous Peoples
Southern British Colonies 
*Reading into the Past Florence Hall’s Account of the Slave Trade 
Northern British Colonies 
Reading into the Past Trial of Anne Hutchinson 
Beyond the British Colonies 
Conclusion: The Diversity of American Women 
PRIMARY SOURCES By and About Colonial Women 
PRIMARY SOURCES Depictions of “Family” in Colonial America 
 
Chapter 3. Mothers and Daughters of the Revolution, 1750–1810 
Background to Revolution, 1754–1775 
Women and the Face of War, 1775–1783 
Revolutionary Era Legacies 
*Reading into the Past Thirteen Toasts 
Conclusion: To the Margins of Political Action 
PRIMARY SOURCES Gendering Images of the Revolution 
PRIMARY SOURCES Phillis Wheatley, Enslaved Poet 
PRIMARY SOURCES Education and Republican Motherhood 
 
Chapter 4. Pedestal, Loom, and Auction Block, 1800–1860 
The Ideology of True Womanhood 
Reading into the Past Catharine Beecher, The Peculiar Responsibilities of the American Woman
Women and Wage Earning 
Women, Slavery, and the South 
Reading into the Past Beloved Children: Cherokee Women Petition the National Council
Reading into the Past Mary Boykin Chesnut, “Slavery a Curse to Any Land”
Conclusion: True Womanhood and the Reality of Women’s Lives 
PRIMARY SOURCES Sex Work in New York City, 1858 
PRIMARY SOURCES Mothering under Slavery 
PRIMARY SOURCES Godey’s Lady’s Book 
PRIMARY SOURCES Early Photographs of Factory Operatives  
 
Chapter 5. Shifting Boundaries: Expansion, Reform, and Civil War, 1840–1865 
An Expanding Nation, 1843–1861 
Reading into the Past Narrative of Mrs. Rosalía Vallejo Leese, Who Witnessed the Hoisting of the Bear Flag in Sonoma on the 14th of June, 1846  
Antebellum Reform 
Civil War, 1861–1865 
*Reading into the Past Charlotte Forten Grimké, “Life on the Sea Islands”  
Conclusion: Reshaping Boundaries, Redefining Womanhood 
PRIMARY SOURCES Female Labor in the Gold-Rush Economy 
PRIMARY SOURCES Women’s Rights Partnership: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony  
PRIMARY SOURCES Women on the Civil War Battlefields 
 
Chapter 6. Reconstructing Women’s Lives North and South, 1865–1900 
Gender and the Postwar Constitutional Amendments 
Women’s Lives in Southern Reconstruction and Redemption 
Reading into the Past Mary Tape, “What Right Have You?”
Female Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 
Reading into the Past Leonora Barry, “Women in the Knights of Labor”
Women of the Leisured Classes 
Conclusion: Toward a New Womanhood 
PRIMARY SOURCES Ida B. Wells, “Race Woman” 
PRIMARY SOURCES The Woman Who Toils 
PRIMARY SOURCES The Higher Education of Women in the Postbellum Years 
PRIMARY SOURCES The New Woman 

 

Ellen Carol DuBois

Ellen Carol DuBois (PhD, Northwestern University) is Distinguished Research Professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848–1869; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (winner of the 1998 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History from the American Historical Association); and Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights. With Vicki L. Ruiz, she coedited the influential anthology Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women’s History. With Vinay Lal, she is coauthor of A Passionate Life: Writings By and About Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. Her newest book, Suffrage: Women’s Long Road to the Ballot Box, appeared in 2020, the first comprehensive history of the American woman suffrage movement in a half century.

Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History, Emerita, at Occidental College. She has written The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s, and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880–1930. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, Reviews in American History, and the American Historical Review.

Brenda Stevenson

Brenda Elaine Stevenson (PhD, Yale University) is the inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women’s History at the University of Oxford and the inaugural Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the award-winning monographs: Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South; and The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots. She is also the author of What Is Slavery?; the editor of the Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké; and the co-author of The Underground Railroad. Her new monograph, What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family, appeared in April 2023. She was appointed by President Biden to serve on the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board in 2022.