Introduction: Gender Expectations Across Cultures ix
Chapter One Women In Colonial America to1763 1
Native American Women 2
Spanish–Heritage Women 6
Early Accounts of Native Peoples 8
White Colonial Women 12
African Women 35
Study Guide 47
Suggestions for Further Reading 48
Chapter Two Resistance, Revolution, and Early Nationhood,
1763 to 1812 52
Resistance to England, 1763–1776 53
The American Revolution, 1776–1783 58
Women after the Revolution 70
Republican Women in the Early Nation 77
Women on the Western Frontier 87
Study Guide 97
Suggestions for Further Reading 98
Chapter Three True Women in Industrial and Westward
Expansion, 1812 to 1837 102
The South 103
The North 114
The West 135
Study Guide 147
Suggestions for Further Reading 148
Images and Realities (Photographs) follow page 152
Chapter Four Moral Women Reshaping American Life and Values,
1837 to 1861 153
Women in the South 153
Women in the North 161
Women in the West 191
Study Guide 199
Suggestions for Further Reading 200
Chapter Five Womanly Strength of the Nation : The Civil War
and Reconstruction, 1861 to 1877 207
Civil War, 1861–1865 208
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Reconstruction, 1865–1877 219
Women in the West 242
Study Guide 252
Suggestions for Further Reading 253
Index xiii (follows page 260)
Glenda Riley is Alexander M. Bracken Professor of HistoryEmeritus at Ball State University. Formerly, she was professor ofhistory and director of the Women s Studies Program at theUniversity of Northern Iowa. Professor Riley has also served asvisiting endowed professor at University College, Dublin; MarquetteUniversity; and Mesa State College, In addition to authoring foureditions of Inventing the American Women, Professor Riley haswritten The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley (1994), A Place toGrow: Women in the American West (1992), Divorce: An AmericanTradition (1991), The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Womenon the Prairie and Plains (1988), Women and Indians on theFrontier, 1825-1915 (1984), Frontierswomen: The Iowa Experience(1981; 2d ed., 1994), Women and Nature: Saving the Wild West (1999), Taking Land, Breaking Land: WomenColonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840-1940 (2003), andConfronting Race: Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1815-1915(2004), as ell as numerous published articles, reviews, andchapters in edited volumes. Professor Riley now lives on a horseranch in historic Lincoln County, New Mexico, and is a member ofsuch organizations as the Lincoln County Historical Society and theLincoln County Sheriff s Posse.
Praise for the 2nd edition:
"This is a wonderful set of two volumes on the history of American
women, from the earliest colonial period to the 1990s. It is based
on a wide variety of sources, and it is extensively documented.
Anyone interested in the history of women in the United States
should consult this important work." ( The Historical Journal of
Massachusetts, Summer 1995)
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