Encyclopedia of women in American history

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (780 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/0973/03
• Soggetto topico: Women - United States - History
• Altri autori: ApplebyJoyce <1929-2016.> ChengEileen K GoodwinJoanne L
• Note generali: First published 2002 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Consultants and Contributors; Preface; Timeline of Historical Events (Vol. 1); Timeline of Historical Events (Vol. 2); Timeline of Historical Events (Vol. 3); PART 1: ESSAYS; Women in Colonial and Early National America; Women and the Law in Colonial and Revolutionary America; Domestic Life in the Colonial Years; Women and Religion; Gender Ideology in the Revolutionary Era; Social Control; Stages in a Woman's Life in the Early Republic; Women's Citizenship in the Early Republic; PART 2: ARTICLES; A; Abortion; Adams, Abigail Smith ; Adams, Louisa Catherine JohnsonAdolescence; Aitken, Jane; Alexander, Mary Spratt Provoost; Algonquian Household Economy; Alston, Theodosia Burr; American Revolution; Anglicans; Anti-miscegenation Laws; Apprenticeships; Arnold, Peggy Shippen; Arts, Patrons of the; B; Bache, Sarah Franklin; Bailey, Abigail Abbot; Bailey, Lydia R,; Ballard, Martha; Baptists; Barnard, Hannah Jenkins; Benevolent Associations, Women's; Berkeley, Lady Frances Culpeper; Bethune, Joanna Graham; The Bible and the Subordination of Women; Bill of Rights; Bingham, Anne Willing; Bleecker, Ann Eliza ; Bradford, Cornelia SmithBradstreet, Anne Dudley; Brant, Molly; Brent, Margaret; Brewer, Lucy; Brooks, Maria Gowen; Brown, Phoebe Hinsdale; Bundling; C; Captivity Narratives; Catholics; Charters, Colonial; Cherokee Household Economy; Childbearing Years; Childbirth; Child Custody; Childhood; Choctaw Household Economy; Christianity; Church Membership; Civic Life; Cockacoeske; Colleges; Colonial Household Economy; Common Law; Congregationalists; Constitution, United States; Cooke, Harriet B.; Coolidge, Ellen Randolph; Corbin, Margaret Cochran; Corey, Martha; Courts; Courtship; Coverture ; Crimes Against WomenCrocker, Hannah Mather; Custis, Eleanor Calvert; D; Dame Schools; Darragh, Lydia Barrington; Death and Funerals; Declaration of Independence; Denominationalism; Diaries and Journals; Diseases; Divorce Laws; Domestic Arts; Domestic Life; Dow, Peggy; Dower Rights; Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwich; Duchesne, Rose Philippine; Dutch Household Economy; E; Edwards, Sarah Pierpont; Eldridge, Elleanore; Emerson, Mary Moody; Entertainment; Entrepreneurs; Equality of Female Intellect; Estaugh, Elizabeth Haddon; F; Factories; Family Life, Colonial; Family Life, Free Black ; Family Life, Native AmericanFamily Life, Republican; Farrar, Elizabeth Ware Rotch; Fashion; Feme Sole Trader Acts; Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme; Fisher, Mary; Fornication; Foster, Hannah Webster; Franklin, Ann Smith; Franklin, Deborah Read; Free Black Communities; French and Indian War; French Household Economy; Friendship; Frontier Life; G; Gage, Margaret Kemble; Galloway, Grace Growdon; Games; Gender and English Identity in the Seventeenth Century ; Gender and Racial Differences; Gender Frontiers; Gentility; German Household Economy; Goddard, Sarah Updike; Gossip; Gould, Hannah Flagg ; Graham, Isabella Marshall
• Sommario/riassunto: This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history, from the colonial period to the present. It not only covers the issues that have had an impact on women, but also traces the influence of women's achievements on society as a whole. Divided into three chronologically arranged volumes, the set includes historical surveys and thematic essays on central issues and political changes affecting women's lives during each period. These are followed by A-Z entries on significant events and social movements, laws, court cases and more
• Titolo autorizzato: Encyclopedia of women in American history
• ISBN: 1-315-70469-2; 1-317-47162-8; 1-317-47161-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797360803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II