TY - BOOK AU - Evans,Sara M. TI - Born for liberty: a history of women in America SN - 0684834987 AV - HQ1410 .E83 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Free Press Paperbacks KW - Women KW - United States KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Political activity N1 - Edition statement from preface (p. xi); First Free Press Paperbacks ed., 1997; "With a new chapter and preface by the author"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-395) and index; 1. The First American Women -- 2. The Women Who Came to North America, 1607-1770 -- 3. "But What Have I to Do with Politicks?": The Revolutionary Era -- 4. The Age of Association: 1820-1845 -- 5. A Time of Division: 1845-1865 -- 6. "Maternal Commonwealth" in the Gilded Age: 1865-1890 -- 7. Women and Modernity: 1890-1920 -- 8. Flappers, Freudians, and All That Jazz -- 9. Surviving the Great Depression -- 10. Women at War: The 1940s -- 11. The Cold War and the "Feminine Mystique" -- 12. Decade of Discovery: "The Personal Is Political" -- 13. The Politicization of Personal Life: Women Versus Women -- 14. Toward a New Century N2 - A history of American women from the Indian woman of the 16th century to the dual-role career woman and mother of the 1980s ER -