Root of bitterness : documents of the social history of American women /

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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Other Authors: Cott, Nancy F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1986.
Subjects:
Women > United States > History > Sources.
Women > United States > Social conditions > Sources.
Women.
Gender identity.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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