{"product_id":"womens-roles-in-nineteenthcentury-america-womens-roles-through-history-9780313335471","title":"Women's Roles in Nineteenth-Century America (Women's Roles through History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe nineteenth century has been referred to as the Womans Century  and it was a period of amazing change and progress for American women. There were great leaps forward in womens legal status  their entrance into higher education and the professions  and their roles in public life. In addition  approximately two million African American female slaves gained their freedom. Womens Roles in Nineteenth-Century America examines how economic  political  and social factors in the United States affected womens roles and how women themselves helped shape history. Each thematic chapter addresses ideas about womens proper roles as well as womens experiences of living in the nineteenth century. While the dominant ideas about appropriate gender roles originated from within the white Protestant and primarily middle-class culture  each chapter compares those ideas with the reality of different womens daily lives  integrating information on European American  African American  Native American  and immigrant women  and women of different socioeconomic and religious backgrounds and regions. Students and general readers will come away with a solid understanding of marriage and family life  the boundaries between home and public life  work  the intricacies of social and political reform  and new directions in religious and literary roles and the multicultural histories of the American West.  Chapter 1  Marriage and Family Life  looks at womens roles and relationships as daughters  wives  and mothers  as well as the roles of women who remained single  either by choice or circumstance. Slave marriages and interracial marriages are also discussed  as well as reformers attacks on and attempts to provide alternatives to traditional marriage. Chapter 2 on Work acknowledges womens unpaid work within the household economy as well as their entrance into the paid workforce beginning in the nineteenth century. Chapter 3  Religion  explores womens roles in as churchgoers  reformers  missionaries  and preachers. Chapter 4 on Education examines a century that began with almost no women having access to formal education-and most black women denied any education all-and ended with women making up nearly half of all college graduates and in leading roles as teachers  college administrators  and even college presidents. Women had also made several first entrances into professions requiring advanced educations  such as medicine  the law  and the ministry. Chapter 5  Politics and Reform  explains how women were consistently active in public life throughout the century. Chapter 6  Slavery and Civil War  looks at the experience of enslaved women  their survival and resistance  as well as their first experiences of freedom during and after the Civil War. The chapter also explores the ways in which both black and white women participated in and were affected by the Civil War. Chapter 7 on The West discusses the process of relentless westward movement in the nineteenth century through the perspective of women  whether the thousands of pioneer women who traveled into and settled the west  or the native women who were confronted with and challenged by those settlements. Finally  Chapter 8  Literature and the Arts  shows that while traditional studies of high culture have focused largely on a male canon of writers and artists  women in fact contributed to establishing an American tradition of literature and the arts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648114876469,"sku":"ByrdShop_0313335478","price":68.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780313335471.jpg?v=1781709781","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/womens-roles-in-nineteenthcentury-america-womens-roles-through-history-9780313335471","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}