Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment - An American Perspective / KERBER, LINDA -- The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic / LEWIS, JAN -- Equity vs. Equality: Emerging Concepts of Women's Political Status in the Age of Jackson / BASCH, NORMA -- "Co-Laborers in the Cause": Women in the Ante-bellum Nativist Movement / HALES, JEAN GOULD -- "Moral Suasion is Moral Balderdash": Women, Politics, and Social Activism in the 1850s / GINZBERG, LORI D. -- Harlots or Heroines? / CHESSON, MICHAEL B. -- Women in the Southern Farmers' Alliance: A Reconsideration of the Role and Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth- Century South / JEFFREY, JULIE ROY -- The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920 / BAKER, PAULA -- Immigrant Women and Consumer Protest: The New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902 / HYMAN, PAULA . -- Fighting for a Future / STARR, KAREN -- Women and the Socialist Party / BUHLE, MARI JO -- Other Socialists: Native-Born Immigrant Women in the Socialist Party of America, 1901-1917 / MILLER, SALLY M. -- Housewives, Socialists, and the Politics of Food: The 1917 New York Cost-of-Living Protests / FRANK, DANA -- Defining Socialist Womanhood: the Women's Page of the Jewish Daily Forward in 1919 / SELLER, S. -- Socialism and Women in the United States, 1900-1917 / DANCIS, BRUCE