Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women

This thoroughly revised edition of the classic text in American women's social history contains about twenty selections from the original volume and almost sixty new ones. Presenting a diverse collection of documents, it reaches from the colonial era through the nineteenth century, and focuses on six dominant themes: women's work, the power of gender, the physical body, women's collective efforts, diversity and conflict among women, and women's relation to state authority.