Concise Women's History, A

Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor and Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University, specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left, second edition (1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (1991–1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.   Teresa Murphy is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. Born and raised in California, she received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD from Yale University. She is the author of Ten Hours Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England (1992) and is currently completing a study about the origins of women’s history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is the former Associate Editor of American Quarterly.   Jane F. Gerhard is a visiting assistant professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, specializing in American women’s history and the history of sexuality in America. She received her B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. from Brown University. She is the author of Desiring Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 (2001).

Chapter 1. Worlds Apart, to 1700
Chapter 2. Contact and Conquest, 1500-1700
Chapter 3. Eighteenth-Century Revolutions, 1700 — 1800
Chapter 4. Frontiers Of Trade And Empire, 1750 — 1860
Chapter 5. Domestic Economies And Northern Lives, 1800 — 1860
Chapter 6. Family Business: Slavery And Patriarchy, 1800 — 1860
Chapter 7. Religion And Reform, 1800 — 1860
Chapter 8. Politics And Power: The Movement For Woman’s Rights, 1800 —
Chapter 9. The Civil War, 1861 — 1865
Chapter 10. In The Age Of Slave Emancipation, 1865-1877
Chapter 11. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860 — 1900
Chapter 12. New Women, 1857 — 1915
Chapter 13. The Woman Movement, 1860 - 1900
Chapter 14. The New Morality, 1880 — 1920
Chapter 15. The Progressive Era, 1890 — 1920
Chapter 16. The Jazz Age, 1920 — 1930
Chapter 17. The Great Depression, 1930 — 1940
Chapter 18. World War Ii Home Fronts, 1940 — 1945
Chapter 19. The Feminine Mystique, 1945 — 1965
Chapter 20. Civil Rights And Liberal Activism, 1945 — 1975
Chapter 21. The Personal Is Political, 1960 — 1980
Chapter 22. Endings And Beginnngs, 1980 — 2011