Description: Introduction. 1. Native American Women and Agriculture, Joan M. Jensen. 2. The Weaker Sex as Religious Rebel, Lyle Koehler. 3. A Friendly Neighbor: Social Dimensions of Daily Work in Northern Colonial New England, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. 4. The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland, Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh. 5. The Beginnings of the Afro-American Family in Maryland, Allan Kulikoff. 6. Divorce and the Changing Status of Women in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts, Nancy F. Cott. 7. Butter Making and Economic Development in Mid-Atlantic America from 1750 to 1850, Joan M. Jensen. 8. The Sexual Division of Labor and the Artisan Tradition in Early Industrial Capitalism, Mary H. Blewett. 9. The Domestic Balance of Power: Relations between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England, Carol Lasser. 10. Women, Work, and Protest in Early Lowell Mills, Thomas Dublin. 11. Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South, Deborah G. White. 12. The Political Activities of Anti-Slavery Women, Gerda Lerner. 13. Beauty, the Beast, and the Militant Woman: A Case Study of Sex Roles and Social Stress in Jacksonian America, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. 14. The Founding of Mt. Holyoke College, Kathryn Kish Sklar. 15. Woman and Indians on the Frontier, Glenda Riley. 16. Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kathryn Kish Sklar. 17. Chinese Immigrant Women in Nineteenth-Century California, Lucie Cheng. 18. The Social Character of Abortion in America, 1840-1880, James C. Mohr. Suggestions for Further Reading.

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