Root of bitterness : documents of the social history of American women / edited, with an introduction, and a new foreword by Nancy F. Cott.
First published when women's history was a newly emergent field, Root of Bitterness has achieved the status of a classic in a burgeoning body of literature. Taking three centuries of American women's experience as its province, the volume extends from the unknown voices of slaves and inden...
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Root of bitterness : |b documents of the social history of American women / |c edited, with an introduction, and a new foreword by Nancy F. Cott. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Boston : |b Northeastern University Press, |c 1986. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1972 | |
| 300 | |a xv, 376 pages ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The early colonial milieu: goodwives, shrews, and witches -- The trappan'd maiden -- Examination of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson -- Church trial of mistress Ann Hibbens -- Ordinary dealings at Suffolk county court -- Mercy Short, bewitched -- Susanna Martin, on trial for witchcraft -- An achieving society: the eighteenth century -- The lady's new year's gift, or Advice to a daughter / George Savile, Marquis of Halifax -- Sarah Osborn's religious conversion -- Letter from an indentured servant -- Sally Wister's revolutionary war-time diary -- A friend's journal in Philadelphia / Ann Head Warder -- Letters from Eliza Southgate to her cousin Moses Porter -- The cult of domesticity versus social change -- On "Proper conduct of the wife towards her husband" / Samuel Jennings -- On American women and American wives / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Lucy Larcom's factory experience -- "Susan Miller," a story by F.G.A., a Lowell operative --From Woman in America / Mrs. A.J. Graves -- Petition for a ten-hour workday -- "Sweethearts and wives" / T.S. Arthur, a story from Godey's lady's book -- On The peculiar responsibilities of American women / Catharine Beecher -- Slavery and sex -- From Letters on the equality of the sexes / Sarah Grimke -- Narratives from escaped slaves -- From An appeal to the women of the nominally free states / Angelina Grimke -- The trials of girlhood / Linda Brent -- A confederate lady's diary / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Nineteenth-century alternatives: pioneers and utopians -- On "Free enquiry" / Frances Wright -- Emigration from New York to Michigan / Harriet Noble -- Letters of Narcissa Whitman -- Conversation with a newly-wed westerner / Eliza Farnham -- Letter from the union of women for association, and replies -- Domestic relations in a utopian community -- Diary and letter of Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer -- Vindication of the Beecher-Tilton scandal / Victoria Woodhull -- Sexuality and gynecology in the nineteenth century -- On Female health in America / Catharine Beecher -- Communication from Mrs. R.B. Gleason of the Elmira water cure -- From The young woman's book of health / William Alcott -- The murders of marriage / Mary Gove Nichols -- From Perils of American women / Dr. George Austin, with Mary Livermore's recommendatory letter -- On Sexual passion in men and women / Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell -- On Female invalidism / Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi -- Industrialization and women's work -- The working girls of Boston -- Speak-out on domestic service -- The sweating system, charity, and organization / Ida Van Etten -- Testimony on compensation for educated women at work -- Unionization for women: the typographical union / Belva Mary Herron -- On The black woman as breadwinner / Mary White Ovington -- Legacy of leisure: discontent -- On Marriage and work / Antoinette Brown Blackwell -- The snare of preparation / Jane Addams -- "The story of an hour" / Kate Chopin -- On Women's evolution from economic dependence / Charlotte Perkins Gilman. | |
| 520 | |a First published when women's history was a newly emergent field, Root of Bitterness has achieved the status of a classic in a burgeoning body of literature. Taking three centuries of American women's experience as its province, the volume extends from the unknown voices of slaves and indentured servants to the writings of such well-known women as Jane Addams. Through a varied collection of documents including diaries, letters, court transcripts, and manifestos, Nancy F. Cott offers the reader glimpses of women's consciousness from the seventeenth century, when women's challenges to social order were interpreted as witchcraft, to the early twentieth century, when the New Woman confronted Victorian ideas of femininity. Root of Bitterness is a significant contribution to American social history. -- Back cover. | ||
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