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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.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Intersection of Work and Family Life -- ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION AND THE POSITION OF WOMEN AMONG THE IROQUOIS -- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY -- the lady and the mill girl: changes in the status of women in the age of jackson -- REFLECTIONS ON THE BLACK WOMAN'S ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY OF SLAVES -- MY MOTHER WAS MUCH OF A WOMAN": BLACK WOMEN, WORK, AND THE FAMILY UNDER SLAVERY -- FREE BLACK WOMEN AND THE QUESTION OF MATRIARCHY: PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, 1784-1820 -- TWO WORLDS IN ONE: WORK AND FAMILY -- THE LIFE CYCLES AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN ETHNIC GROUPS Irish, Germans, and Native-born Whites in Buffalo, New York, 1855 -- Fertility and Marriage in a Nineteenth- Century Industrial City: Philadelphia, 1850-1880 -- Reconceptualizing Family, Work and Labor Organizing: Working Women in Troy, 1860-1890 -- WORKING-CLASS WOMEN IN THE GILDED AGE. FACTORY, COMMUNITY AND FAMILY LIFE AMONG COHOES, NEW YORK, COTTON WORKERS -- Homesteading in Northeastern Colorado, 1873-1920: Sex Roles and Women's Experience -- The Chicana in American History: The Mexican Women of El Paso, 1880-1920-A Case Study -- WORK AND THE FAMILY IN BLACK ATLANTA, 1880 -- FAMILY TIME AND INDUSTRIAL TIΜΕ Family and Work in a Planned Corporation Town, 1900-1924 -- IMPERFECT UNIONS CLASS AND GENDER IN CRIPPLE CREEK, 1894-1904 -- A FLEXIBLE TRADITION: SOUTH ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS CONFRONT A NEW WORK EXPERIENCE -- NEW IMMIGRANT WOMEN AT WORK: ITALIANS AND JEWS IN NEW YORK CITY, 1880-1905 -- BEYOND THE STEREOTYPE: A NEW LOOK AT THE IMMIGRANT WOMAN, 1880-1924 -- Urbanization without Breakdown.

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 -- Women Together: Organizational Life -- The "Benevolent Fair": A Study of Charitable Organization among American Women in the First Third of the Nineteenth Century -- Ladies Bountiful: Organized Women's Benevolence in Early 19th-century America -- Women in Groups: An Analysis of Women's Benevolent Organizations in New York and Boston, 1797-1840 -- Timid Girls, Venerable Widows and Dignified Matrons: Life Cycle Patterns among Organized Women in New York and Boston, 1797-1840 -- Two "Kindred Spirits": Sorority and Family in New England, 1839-1846 -- A "Pleasingly Oppressive" Burden: The Transformation of Domestic Service and Female Charity in Salem, 1800-1840 -- Business Heads and Sympathizing Hearts: The Women of the Providence Employment Society, 1837-1858 -- "True Philanthropy" and the Limits of the Female Sphere: Poor Relief and Labor Organizations in Ante-Bellum Cleveland -- The Silent Charity: A History of the Cincinnati Maternity Society -- The 1893 Congress of Jewish Women: Evolution or Revolution in American Jewish Women's History? -- Organized Mother Love: The Buffalo Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1885-915 -- "Our Sister's Keepers": The Minneapolis Woman's Christian Association and Housing for Working Women -- Civilizing Kansas: Women's Organizations, 1880-1920 -- Jewish Women of the Club: The Changing Public Role of Atlanta's Jewish Women (1870-1930) -- Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women, 1896 to 1901 -- Toward a Broader Angle of Vision in Uncovering Women's History: Black Women's Clubs Revisited -- Beyond the Classroom: The Organizational Lives of Black Female Educators in the District of Columbia, 1890-1930 -- Women, Consumerism, and the National Consumers' League in the Progressive Era, 1900-1923.