Unequal sisters : a multicultural reader in U.S. women's history / edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-655) and index.

1. Beyond the Search for Sisterhood: American Women's History in the 1990s / Nancy A. Hewitt -- 2. "This Evil Extends Especially to the Feminine Sex": Captivity and Identity in New Mexico, 1700-1846 / James F. Brooks -- 3. Distress and Discord in Virginia Slave Families, 1830-1860 / Brenda Stevenson -- 4. Gender, Race, and Culture: Spanish Mexican Women in the Historiography of Frontier California / Antonia I. Castaneda -- 5. To Earn Her Daily Bread: Housework and Antebellum Working-Class Subsistence / Jeanne Boydston -- 6. Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears / Theda Perdue -- 7. "Domestic" Life in the Diggings: The Southern Mines in the California Gold Rush / Susan Lee Johnson -- 8. To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women's Political History, 1865-1880 / Elsa Barkley Brown -- 9. Deference and Defiance: Labor Politics and the Meanings of Masculinity in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century New England Textile Industry / Mary H. Blewett --

10. Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of "Race" in Twentieth-Century America / Peggy Pascoe --11. "Too Dark to Be Angels": The Class System among the Cherokees at the Female Seminary / Devon A. Mihesuah --12. Going for the Jugular of Hindu Patriarchy: American Women Fund-Raisers for Ramabai / Kumari Jayawardena --13. Ilse Women and the Early Korean American Community: Redefining the Origins of Feminist Empowerment / Alice Yang Murray --14. Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activism, 1890-1945 / Linda Gordon --15. Partisan Women in the Progressive Era: The Struggle for Inclusion in American Political Parties / Melanie Gustafson --16. Unbound Feet: Chinese Women in the Public Sphere / Judy Yung --17. The Emergence of Feminism in Puerto Rico, 1870-1930 / Yamila Azize-Vargas --18. Woman Suffrage around the World: Three Phases of Suffragist Internationalism / Ellen Carol DuBois -- --

19. In Politics to Stay: Black Women Leaders and Party Politics in the 1920s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham --20. Sexual Geography and Gender Economy: The Furnished-Room Districts of Chicago, 1890-1930 / Joanne Meyerowitz --21. Making Faces: The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Construction of Gender, 1890-1930 / Kathy Peiss --22. "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz --23. Crossed Boundaries in Interracial Chicago: Pilipino American Families since 1925 / Barbara M. Posadas --24. "We Are that Mythical Thing Called the Public": Militant Housewives during the Great Depression / Annelise Orleck --25. Raiz Fuerte: Oral History and Mexicana Farmworkers / Devra Anne Weber --26. Breaking the Silence: Putting Latina Lesbian History at the Center / Yolanda Chavez Leyva --27. "But We Would Never Talk about It": The Structures of Lesbian Discretion in South Dakota, 1928-1933 / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy --

28. Open Secrets: Memory, Imagination, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity /Jacquelyn Dowd Hall --29. From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor /Evelyn Nakano Glenn --30. Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band /Sherrie Tucker --31. Japanese American Women during World War II /Valerie Matsumoto --32. Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America /Daniel Horowitz --33. Between Culture and Politics: The Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs and the Promulgation of Women's History, 1944-1989 /Joyce Antler --34. "More than a Lady": Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Black Women's Leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee /Cynthia Griggs Fleming --35. To Become an American Woman: Education and Sex Role Socialization of the Vietnamese Immigrant Woman /Gail Paradise Kelly --

36. Changing Women: The Crosscurrents of American Indian Feminine Identity / Rebecca Tsosie --37. Community, Patriarchy, and Individualism: The Politics of Chicano History and the Dream of Equality / Ramon A. Gutierrez --38. Dependency and Choice: The Two Faces of Eve / Rickie Solinger --39. Teaching the Differences among Women from a Historical Perspective: Rethinking Race and Gender as Social Categories / Tessie Liu. African American Women / Edited by Daina L. Ramey. Asian American Women / Edited by Alice Y. Hom. Latinas / Edited by Mary Ann Villarreal. Native American Women / Edited by Annette L. Reed.