Women's Roles in Nineteenth-Century America
Series: Women's Roles through History
Tiffany K. Wayne
0-313-33547-8/978-0-313-33547-1
Description
Readers will come away with a solid understanding of a broad range of nineteenth-century American women and their domestic life, the boundaries between home and public life, work, the intricacies of social and political reform, new directions in religious and literary roles, and the multicultural histories of the American West.
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[W]ayne....[s]ucceeds admirably in fulfilling the series' purpose. This thematic overview of women's history in nineteenth-century America is an engaging, quick-moving read....It does not read like a textbook, but rather as a user-friendly work of synthetic scholarship which provides both a structured overview and a current and top-notch set of reading lists for students interested in women's history....[b]y integrating the true variety of American women's experiences in her narrative, Wayne captures the period in a way monographs often cannot....[a]n excellent overview of women's history for high-school students, complete and up-to-date with sophisticated, clear writing that does not condescend or oversimplify....engaging, and well-executed overview in a slim volume. It is an excellent resource for libraries and classrooms.
—H-Net
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In a series highlighting women's roles in major areas of the world, Wayne traces the 19th century in the US as one of great progress for women. Still, as the timeline shows, it wasn't until 1920 that the Constitution was amended to grant women the right to vote. The many images include an illustration from an antislavery book; photographs of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, early feminist theorist Margaret Fuller, and Indian reformer Sarah Winnemucca; and a Mary Cassatt painting for the Woman's Building at the 1983 World's Columbian Exposition. Chapters include suggested reading.
—Reference & Research Book News
About the Author
Tiffany K. Wayne
, a former Affiliated Scholar of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University, teaches U.S. history and American women's history at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. She is the author of
Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in 19th-Century America
(2005) and
Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism
(2006).
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