Born for Liberty

• Author(s): Sara Evans,
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Pages: 408
• ISBN_10: 0684834987
  ISBN_13: 9780684834986
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / General , History / Social History , History / Women , Law / Gender & the Law , Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Gender Studies ,

Description:... The first American women; The women who came to North America, 1607-1770; "But what have I to do with politicks?": the Revolutionary Era; The age of association: 1820-1845; A time of division: 1845-1865; "Maternal commonwealth" in the Gilded Age: 1865-1890; Women and modernity: 1890-1920; Flappers, Freudians, and all that jazz; Surviving the Great Depression; Women at war: the 1940s; The Cold War and the "feminine mystique"; Decade of discovery: "the personal is political"; The politicization of personal life: women versus women; Toward a new century.