Root of bitterness : documents of the social history of American women / edited, with an introduction, and a new foreword by Nancy F. Cott.

Originally published: New York : Dutton, c1972.

Bibliography: pages 371-373.

The early colonial milieu: goodwives, shrews, and witches -- The trappan'd maiden -- Examination of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson -- Church trial of mistress Ann Hibbens -- Ordinary dealings at Suffolk county court -- Mercy Short, bewitched -- Susanna Martin, on trial for witchcraft -- An achieving society: the eighteenth century -- The lady's new year's gift, or Advice to a daughter / George Savile, Marquis of Halifax -- Sarah Osborn's religious conversion -- Letter from an indentured servant -- Sally Wister's revolutionary war-time diary -- A friend's journal in Philadelphia / Ann Head Warder -- Letters from Eliza Southgate to her cousin Moses Porter -- The cult of domesticity versus social change -- On "Proper conduct of the wife towards her husband" / Samuel Jennings -- On American women and American wives / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Lucy Larcom's factory experience -- "Susan Miller," a story by F. G. A., a Lowell operative --From Woman in America / Mrs. A. J. Graves -- Petition for a ten-hour workday -- "Sweethearts and wives" / T. S. Arthur, a story from Godey's lady's book -- On The peculiar responsibilities of American women / Catharine Beecher -- Slavery and sex -- From Letters on the equality of the sexes / Sarah Grimke -- Narratives from escaped slaves -- From An appeal to the women of the nominally free states / Angelina Grimke -- The trials of girlhood / Linda Brent -- A confederate lady's diary / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Nineteenth-century alternatives: pioneers and utopians -- On "Free enquiry" / Frances Wright -- Emigration from New York to Michigan / Harriet Noble -- Letters of Narcissa Whitman -- Conversation with a newly-wed westerner / Eliza Farnham -- Letter from the union of women for association, and replies -- Domestic relations in a utopian community -- Diary and letter of Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer -- Vindication of the Beecher-Tilton scandal / Victoria Woodhull -- Sexuality and gynecology in the nineteenth century -- On Female health in America / Catharine Beecher -- Communication from Mrs. R. B. Gleason of the Elmira water cure -- From The young woman's book of health / William Alcott -- The murders of marriage / Mary Gove Nichols -- From Perils of American women / Dr. George Austin, with Mary Livermore's recommendatory letter -- On Sexual passion in men and women / Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell -- On Female invalidism / Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi -- Industrialization and women's work -- The working girls of Boston -- Speak-out on domestic service -- The sweating system, charity, and organization / Ida Van Etten -- Testimony on compensation for educated women at work -- Unionization for women: the typographical union / Belva Mary Herron -- On The black woman as breadwinner / Mary White Ovington -- Legacy of leisure: discontent -- On Marriage and work / Antoinette Brown Blackwell -- The snare of preparation / Jane Addams -- "The story of an hour" / Kate Chopin -- On Women's evolution from economic dependence / Charlotte Perkins Gilman.