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• A true history of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson / Amy Schrager Lang
• The journal of Madam Knight / Sargent Bush
• Some account of the fore part of the life of Elizabeth Ashbrige / Daniel B. Shea
• The travel diary of Elizabeth House Trist : Philadelphia to Natchez, 1783-84 / Annette Kolodny.

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Situated locations : "eight girls, trying to have a boy"
• Agency : "God gave you a big mouth"
• Memory construction : "since Daddy made God die"
• Interrelationships : "the Third Testament"
• Meaning : "the footprints of our lives"
• Knowledge from below : "we left our berries to rot"
• Activism and social movements : "a brown Statue of Liberty"
• Activism and spirituality : "like a conversion"
• Conclusion
• Epilogue
• Appendix: profiles of the women mentioned
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

Fran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who earned a PhD in history and became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class U.S. women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral histories gathered from women from a variety of racial, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds, including a traditionalMexican American midwife, a Latina poet and organizer for the United Farm Workers, and an African American union and freedom movement organizer. Buss now analyzes this body of work, identifying common themes in women's lives and resistance that unite the oral histories she has gathered. From the beginning, her work has shed light on the inseparable, compounding effects of gender, race, ethnicity, and class on women's lives-what is now commonly called intersectionality. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is structured thematically, with each chapter analyzing a concept that runs through the oral histories, e.g., agency, activism, religion. The result is a testament to women's individual and collective strength, and an invaluable guide for students and researchers, on how to effectively and sensitively conduct oral histories that observe, record, recount, and analyze women's life stories.
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• PART I: Women whose Adult Years Spanned Two Centuries-- Chapter 1-- Dancing Women's Freedom: The Story of Isadora Duncan, Mary Anne Siderits, Ph.D.-- Chapter 2-- Anne Sullivan Macy (1866-1936) and Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968): Expressing ""Vision"" with Fluttering Fingers, Hendrika Vande Kemp, Ph.D.-- Chapter 3-- Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth: The Woman Who ""Had It All"" (1878-1972), Melba J. T. Vasquez, Ph.D., ABPP-- Chapter 4-- Alice Paul: Champion of Women's Rights, Carole A. Rayburn, Ph.D.
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In this extraordinary textbook, a new light is cast on the role of circumstance, accomplishments, and personality in the development of various twentieth-century women of vision. This is a brand new ""life-course"" approach to understanding female leaders and gives valuable insight into the lives of such imminent women as: Isadora Duncan; Georgia O'Keefe; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; Alice Paul; Ella Fitzgerald; and, Shirley Chisholm. This book furnishes insights into how the social-economic-political milieu and the attitudes and values of the time played a significant role in the lives of these women but also in all our lives.
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• v. 1. From settlement to the Civil War
• v. 2. From the Civil war to the present.

• v. 1. A-L.--
• v. 2. M-Z and supplement.

Brief biographies emphasizing the courage of twelve women both famous and little-known in United States history.
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• Anne Hutchinson.--Mercy Otis Warren.--Emma Hart Willard.--Margaret Fuller.--Susan B. Anthony.--Dorothea Lynde Dix.--Jane Addams.--Ruth St. Denis.--Margaret Sanger.--Eleanor Roosevelt.--Rachel Carson.--Margaret Mead.

• Gundy, H. P. Molly Brant--loyalist.--Oldham, E. M. Early women printers of America.--Small, E. W. and M. R. Prudence Crandall: champion of Negro education.--Shippee, L. B. Jane Grey Swisshelm: agitator.--Van Rensselaer, G. The original of Rebecca in Ivanhoe.--Mabbott, T. O. "Maria del Occidente."--Fleischer, N. Reckless lady: the life story of Adah Isaacs Menken.--Fatout, P. Amelia Bloomer and bloomerism.--Green, N. K. Four sisters: daughters of Joseph La Flesche.--Hogan, W. R. Pamelia Mann: Texas frontierswoman.--Haddock, E. Women as land-owners in the West.--Diggs, A. L. The women in the alliance movement.--McKelway, A. J. "Kate," the "good angel" of Oklahoma.--Altman, A. R. Julia Richman.--Cantwell, R. "The awakening", by Kate Chopin.--Wolcott, R. W. A woman in steel--Rebecca Lukens.--Dwyer, J. L. Lady with the hatchet.--De Ford, M. A. Poetess of passion.--Gold, L. Laura Jean Libbey.--Steele, Z. Fannie Farmer and her cook book.