Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History, 4th Edition, Volume 1: To 1877

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)