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Historian, social reformer, and women's suffrage campaigner, Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958) was one of the most prominent intellectuals of her day. Coauthor with her husband, Charles A. Beard, of The Rise of American Civilization and other renowned works in U.S. history, she also founded the modern field of women's history. This collection of her letters, edited and introduced by Nancy F. Cott, offers in effect an intellectual biography—better documented and more vivid than any previous book about her. In her supremely ironic act, Mary beard, who led the World enter for Women's Archives was instructed in setting up the two largest collections of American women's history (the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College and the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College), destroyed most of her own personal papers. Cott nevertheless manage to find hundreds of Beard's letters spanning the years from 1911 to 1955 by searching in more than thirty archives of Beard's correspondents. One hundred forty-one letters are printed here, interspersed with Cott's commentary and introduced by a thoughtful essay that analyzes Beard's life work, her companionship with her husband, and the evolution of her views on women's history. The letters, sharply opinionated on public matters, persons, and books, reveal a free-standing thinker whose self-confessed "obsession with women" led her both in and out of step with feminists of her generation. Illuminating many facets of Beard's partnership with her husband, they present just as forcefully her own dramatic passion for advancing knowledge and bringing about social change throughout the recovery of women's history. Her maverick voice is instructive and revelatory today. A uniquely vital portrait, the book gives Mary Ritter Beard the recognition that is her due

This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott's acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers. "Elegant and convincing. . . . Better than any other work available, The Bonds of Womanhood describes both the classic attitudes of the nineteenth century toward women and the opposition to the oppression of women in the historical context from which they grew."—Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books "A lovely, gentle, scholarly, and valuable book."—Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1 An Archaeology of American Monogamy -- 2 Perfecting Community Rules with State Laws -- 3 Domestic Relations on the National Agenda -- 4 Toward a Single Standard -- 5 Monogamy as the Law of Social Life -- 6 Consent, the American Way -- 7 The Modern Architecture of Marriage -- 8 Public Sanctity for a Private Realm -- 9 Marriage Revised and Revived -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

"At a time when print media reigned supreme and newspapers were legion, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, and Rayna Raphaelson Prohme impulsively left their homes to reinvent themselves as international journalists and adopt the power of the press as their own. In Fighting Words, acclaimed historian Nancy Cott follows these four largely unknown young Americans to reveal how foreign journalism shaped America's sense of its place in the world. Dorothy, John, Vincent, and Rayna serve as a counter to the devil-may-care jazz babies of the 1920s who scandalized their elders to no purpose beyond frivolity. Instead, the four directly confronted major political challenges that still reverberate today- democracy versus authoritarianism, global responsibility versus isolationism, press objectivity versus propaganda. They revealed the political instability that circled most of the globe as a legacy of the redrawing of world order after World War I. By the early 1930s, unlike Americans at home fixated on the Depression and New Deal, they were in the antifascist vanguard, well aware of Hitler's impending menace. At the same time, they were actively rethinking relationships between men and women. All four navigated sexual affairs and frictions, marriages and divorces. Their experiences traced the development not only of international journalism but also the making of the modern self at a time when the value of sexual freedom grated against traditional morality. A group biography of four extraordinary Americans abroad, and a paean to a golden age of journalism, Fighting Words shows how these young cosmopolitans reshaped America's sense of its own place in the world"--

Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part 2 -- THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM OF THE FAMILY WAGE: THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY AND THE FIVE DOLLAR DAY -- RURAL PUSH AND URBAN PULL: WORK AND FAMILY EXPERIENCES OF OLDER BLACK WOMEN IN SOUTHERN CITIES, 1880-1900 -- Our Own Kind: Family and Community Networks -- THE "GOOD MANAGERS": MARRIED WORKING CLASS WOMEN AND FAMILY BUDGET STUDIES, 1895-1915 -- The Female Life Cycle and the Measure of Jewish Social Change: Portland, Oregon, 1880-1930 -- The Women's March: Miners, Family, and Community in Pittsburg, Kansas, 1921-1922 -- Cotton Mill People: Work, Community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940 -- BEYOND THE FAMILY ECONOMY: BLACK AND WHITE WORKING-CLASS WOMEN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION -- The Economics of Middle-Income Family Life: Working Women During the Great Depression -- Working after Childbearing in Modern America -- A PROMISE FULFILLED: Mexican Cannery Workers in Southern California -- The Impact of "Sun Belt Industrialization" on Chicanas -- Copyright Information -- Index.

Frontmatter --Contents --Series Preface --Introduction --Feminist Struggles for Sex Equality --Feminist Friends: Agrarian Quakers and the Emergence of Woman's Rights in America /HEWITT, NANCY A. --Women's Rights and the Wrongs of Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America /BASCH, FRANÇOISE --Labor's True Woman: Domesticity and Equal Rights in the Knights of Labor /LEVINE, SUSAN --Sisters of the Grange: Rural Feminism in the Late Nineteenth Century /MARTI, DONALD B. --Populism and Feminism in a Newspaper by and for Women of the Kansas Farmers' Alliance, 1891-1894 /Brady, Marilyn Dell --The Anarchist-Feminist Response to the "Woman Question" in Late Nineteenth-Century America /Marsh, Margaret S. --Feminist Responses to "Crimes against Women," 1868-1896 /PLECK, ELIZABETH --Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Feminist's Struggle with Womanhood /HILL, MARY A. --The Women's Trade Union League and American Feminism /JACOBY, ROBIN MILLER --Creating a Feminist Alliance: Sisterhood and Class Conflict in the New York Women's Trade Union League, 1903-1914 /DYE, NANCY SCHROM --Feminism as Life-Process: The Life and Career of Lucy Sprague Mitchell /ANTLER, JOYCE --Feminist Politics in the 1920s: The National Woman's Party /COTT, NANCY F. --The National Woman's Party and the Origins of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1923 /GEIDEL, PETER --Feminist Against Feminist: The First Phase of the Equal Rights Amendment Debate, 1923-1963 /SEALANDER, JUDITH --Organized Women in Mississippi: The Clash over Legal Disabilities in the 1920's /SWAIN, MARTHA H. --Challenging "Woman's Place": Feminism, the Left, and Industrial Unionism in the 1930s /STROM, SHARON HARTMAN --Humor and Gender Roles: The "Funny" Feminism of the Post-World War II Suburbs /WALKER, NANCY --The Women's Community in the National Woman's Party, 1945 to the 1960s /RUPP, LEILA J. --Women Activists, Southern Conservatives, and the Prohibition of Sex Discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act /BRAUER, CARL M . --The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement /EVANS, SARA M. --Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects for an All-Inclusive Sisterhood /DILL, BONNIE THORNTON --The Rise and Fall of Feminist Organizations in the 1970s: Dayton as a Case Study /SEALANDER, JUDITH / SMITH, DOROTHY --Feminism and the Contemporary Family /EASTON, BARBARA --A Response to Inequality: Black Women, Racism, and Sexism /LEWIS, DIANE K. --Copyright Information --Index

Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Social and Moral Reform -- Beauty, the Beast and the Militant Woman: A Case Study in Sex Roles and Social Stress in Jacksonian America -- The Power of Women's Networks: A Case Study of Female Moral Reform in Antebellum America -- The Forten-Purvis Women of Philadelphia and the American Anti-Slavery Crusade -- Race, Sex, and the Dimensions of Liberty in Antebellum America -- The Origins of Temperance Activism and Militancy among American Women -- Women, Children, and the Uses of the Streets: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City, 1850-1860 -- Women and Temperance in Antebellum America, 1830-1860 -- The Yankee Schoolmarm in Freedmen's Schools: An Analysis of Attitudes -- Women Who Were More Than Men: Sex and Status in Freedmen's Teaching -- Yankee Schoolmarms and the Domestication of the South -- The Charitable and the Poor: The Emergence of Domestic Politics in Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1880 -- "The Ladies Want to Bring about Reform in the Public Schools": Public Education and Women's Rights in the Post-Civil War South -- Temperance, Benevolence, and the City: The Cleveland Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1900 -- Their Sisters' Keepers: An Historical Perspective on Female Correctional Institutions in the United States: 1870-1900 -- The "New Woman" in the New South -- Feminism and Temperance Reform in the Boulder WCTU -- Cultural Hybrid in the Slums: The College Woman and the Settlement House, 1889-1894 -- Female Support Networks and Political Activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman -- Domesticating the Nineteenth-Century American City -- Women Reformers and American Culture, 1870-1930.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Woman Suffrage -- THE RADICALISM OF THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT: NOTES TOWARD THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY FEMINISM -- Separate Paths: Suffragists and the Women's Temperance Crusade -- The Case for Domestic Feminism: Woman Suffrage in Wyoming -- Woman Suffrage and the Massachusetts "Referendum" of 1895 -- Woman's Place Is in the Constitution: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895 -- A Half Century of Struggle: Gaining Woman Suffrage in Kam -- Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909 -- Leadership and Tactics in the American Woman Suffrage Movement: A New Perspective from Massachusetts -- THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN MISSISSIPPI, 1890-1920 -- Kate Gordon and the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the South -- Kate Gordon and Louisiana Woman Suffrage -- TACTICAL PROBLEMS OF THE WOMAN-SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH -- The 1912 Suffrage Referendum: An Exercise in Political Action -- The Woman Suffrage Movement in Washington -- The Montana Woman Suffrage Campaign, 1911-14.