Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Maidenhood, Wifehood, and Motherhood"
Timeline of Events
Glossary
1. Domestic Life: "She Has Become a Woman"
1. Document: Emelyn Lincoln Coolidge, M.D., "The Young Mother in the Home: How One Mother with Five Children Regulates Her Day" (1907)
2. Document: Kathleen Norris, The Treasure (1914)
3. Document: Emma Duke, Infant Mortality (1915)
2. Economic Life: "Working … Since I Knowed What Work Was"
1. Document: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)
2. Document: A Negro Nurse, "More Slavery at the South" (1912)
3. Intellectual Life: "The Ladies' Course"
1. Document: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self: Address Delivered by Mrs. Stanton Before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress" (1892)
2. Document: G. Stanley Hall, "The Ideal School as Based on Child Study" (1901)
4. Material Life: "Life in a Cottage"
1. Document: W. O. Atwater and Charles D. Woods, Dietary Studies with Reference to the Food of the Negro in Alabama (1897)
2. Document: Arthur Goss, Dietary Studies in New Mexico in 1895 (1899)
3. Document: Mrs. Burton Kingsland, The Book of Weddings (1907)
4. Document: "Home and Farm," The Herald and Presbyter (1919)
5. Political Life: "Shall I Fold Some More Leaflets?"
1. Document: Frances Willard, Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Temperance Union (1893)
2. Document: L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz (1904)
3. Document: Jane Addams, "The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women" (1906)
4. Document: M., "Women Do Not Want the Vote Despite Cry of Suffragists" (1912)
5. Document: Emma Goldman, "Woman Suffrage" (1917)
6. Document: Margaret Murray Washington, "Club Work Among Negro Women" (1920)
7. Document: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (1920)
6. Recreational Life: "I Am Very Fond of … All Sorts of Pleasure"
1. Document: Senda Berenson, "The Significance of Basket Ball for Women" (1901)
2. Document: "At the Social Settlement Saturday Night Dance, Back of the Yards. In the Dance Halls," Chicago Tribune (1910)
7. Religious Life: "A Most Active and Potent Factor in the Churches"
1. Document: C. H. Yatman, "Scripture for Women" and "Good Women," The Christian Herald and Signs of Our Times (1892 and 1893)
2. Document: Mary Cagle, "My Call to the Ministry" (1905)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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This book illustrates the social change that took place in the lives of women during the Progressive Era.

About the Author

Kirstin Olsen is a history educator and an independent scholar in Santa Cruz, CA. She is author of the award-winning All Things Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World and many other books.

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