by Gail Collins
Lyon, Mary
Lyons, Lydia
Mabry, Susan
McCarthy, Joseph
McCormick, Jill
McCormick, Katharine
McCormick, Stanley
McMahon, Anna
Madison, Dolly
Magruder, Irene
Maine Anti-Slavery Society
Main Street (Lewis)
Manning, Edward
Marcuse, Herbert
Marcus Warland (Hentz)
Marion, Andy
Marion, Frances
marriage
age at
arranged
black-white
blood tests before
employment and
European-Indian
in fifties
gender imbalance and
of immigrants
of New Woman
pregnancy before
protection of women’s property rights in
serial
in sixties
of slaves
in twenties
in West
World War II and
Mason, Bobbie Ann
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massery, Hazel Bryan
Massie, William
Masterson, Martha Gay
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Increase
Matthias, Prophet
Maxwell, Martha
May, John
May, Samuel Joseph
Mayflower
Mead, Margaret
medical schools
medicine
Civil War and
in Gilded Age
gynecology
surgery
see also doctors; midwives; nursing
Meigs, Charles
Melville, Sam
menopause
menstruation
sanitary napkins and
Merrick, Caroline
Mexican Americans
Mexicans
Meyer, Agnes
midwives
Milholland, Inez
military, women in
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Judge
Miller, Lewis
mill girls
ministers, female
miscarriage
Miss America pageant
Mitchell, Margaret
Modern Women (best-seller)
“Molly Pitcher,”
Monroe, Marilyn
Monsrud, Nels
Montez, Lola
Montgomery bus boycott
Moore, Fannie
Moore, Mary Tyler
Moore, Owen
“Moral Disarmament of Betty Coed
The” (Steinem)
Morgan, Alexander
Morgan, Diana
Morgan, Mrs. Alexander
Morgan, Robin
Morgan, Sarah
Morris, Esther McQuigg
Morris, John
Morris, Robert
Morrow, Prince
Mott, James
Mott, Lucretia
movies
in fifties
in sixties
World War II and
Mulcahy, William
Murray, Pauli
Nathan, George Jean
Nation, Carry
National American Woman Suffrage
Association
National Association of Colored Women
315
National Organization for Women
(NOW)
National Women’s Party
National Youth Administration
Native Americans
colonists’ relations with
in West
women
Neblett, Lizzie
Neblett, Will
Neff, Mary
newborns and infants
diapers for
of immigrants
Newsweek
New Woman
Addams as
bicycling and
business women as
chorus girls as
housekeeping and
Mother Jones as
World War I and
New York Committee for the Suppression of Vice
Nichols, Anne
Nicolsen, Marjorie
Nightingale, Florence
Nixon, E. D.
Nixon, Richard
Northrup, Simon
Norton, Charles Eliot
Norwood, Lewis B.
novels
Nurse, Rebecca
Nurse, Sarah
nursing
in Depression
in World War II
Oakley, Annie (Phoebe Ann Moses)
Oatman, Olive
Oberlin College
O’Brien, Colonel
Office of Price Administration, U.S.
Office of War Information, U.S.
Offley, Sarah
Oliver, Elsie
Oliver, Mary
Oliver, Salmon
Olmstead, Frederick
O’Neill, Ella
O’Neill, Eugene
Osborne, Sarah
Ostrander, Joan
ovaries
Owen, Robert Dale
Owens-Adair, Bethenia
Packard, Clarissa (Caroline Howard Gilman)
Paderewski, Ignacy
Parkhurst, Charlie
Parks, Raymond
Parks, Rosa
Parris, Betty
Parris, Mrs. Samuel
Parris, Samuel
Parrish, Susan
Pasternak, Rose
Pastor, Rose
Pastor, Tony
Patent Office, U.S.
Pattee, R. L.
Patterson, Delcia
Paul, Alice
Paul, Mary
Paul, Saint
Pember, Phoebe Yates
Perkins, Elizabeth
Perkins, Frances
Perry, Annie
Peters, John
Phipps, William
Phoenix, Katie
Pickford, Mary
Pierce, Jane
Pierce, Joan
Pierce, William
Pilgrims
pilots
Pinckney, Charles
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas
Pincus, Gregory
Pinkham family
pioneers
plantations
isolation of
running of
slavery on
Playboy clubs
Pleasant, Mary Ann
Pocahontas
Poe, Edgar Allan
poetry
Polish Americans
Ponselle, Elsa
Poole, Elizabeth
poverty, the poor
alcohol and
African American
Civil War and
in colonial period
in Depression
health issues and
New Woman and
in pre–Civil War period
slaves compared with white poor
Powell, Rev. Adam Clayton
Powhatan
pre–Civil War period
children in
domestic life in
employment in
female public figures in
health issues in
reform movements in
separate spheres in
sex scandals in
women’s rights in
see also slaves, slavery; slave women pregnancy
in fifties
of immigrants
out-of-wedlock
of pioneers
in sixties
of slaves
see also abortion; childbirth
Presley, Elvis
Pretty Shield
Prince, Mary
Prisland, Marie
Proctor, Alice
Proctor, Elizabeth and John
Prohibition
prostitution
in West
publishing
Puritans
witch-hunts and
Purity Campaign
Putnam, Ann (daughter)
Putnam, Ann (mother)
Putnam, Thomas
Quakers
abolition and
Quimby, Harriet
radio
Raft, George
Raiche, Bessica
Rand, Sally
Randolph, A. Philip
Randolph, John
Rankin, Jeanette
Rankin family
rape
Rascow, William
Ray, Johnny
Republican party
Restell, Madame (Ann Lohman)
Reynolds, Debbie
Rich, Adrienne
Richards, Anne
Richards, Ellen Swallow
Richards, Robert Hallowell
Richardson, Alfred
Riggs, Bobby
Riis, Jacob
Riker, Janette
Roanoke Island
Robinson, Harriet
Robinson, Jo Ann
Robinson, John
Roche, Josephine
Rochester convention (1848)
Rockwell, Norman
Roe, Elizabeth
Rogers, Edith Nourse
Rogers, Ginger
Rogers, Martha
Rolfe, John
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin
Roosevelt, Sara
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rorer, Sarah Tyson
Rosie the Riveter
Ross, Nellie Tayloe
Rowland, Jessie Hill
Rowland, Kate
Rowlandson, Mary
Ruffin, Josephine
Rule, Margaret
Russell, Jane
Russell, Lillian
Russell, Rosalind
Ruth Hall (Fern)
Sabine, Pauline
Sachs, Sadie
Safer, Morley
St. Elmo (Evans)
St. Mèry, Moreau de
Salem, Mass.
witch-hunts in
Salmon, Lucy
Saltonstall, Elizabeth
Sanger, Bill
Sanger, Margaret
Sanger, Peggy
Sanitary Commission, U.S.
Sarmiento, Domingo
Sawyer, Lanah
Scheur, James
Schurch, Frieda
Scudder, Vida
Sears Roebuck
Sedgwick, Catherine Maria
segregation
Senate, U.S.
Seneca Falls convention (1848)
separate spheres
reform movements and
True Woman and
Servant, Ann
servants
African Americans as
in Depression
ex-slaves as
immigrants as
slaves as
wages of
see also indentured servants settlement houses
seventies
Sewall, Samuel
Seward, William
sewing
sex, sexual behavior
age of consent for
in colonial era
conception and
enjoyment of
in fifties
lesbian
in movies
of New Woman
premarital
in sixties
in twenties
in World War II
Sex and the Single Girl (Brown)
sex education
Sex in Education, or, a Fair Chance for Girls (Clarke)
sex scandals
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Kinsey)
sexual decorum
suspension of rules of
sexual harassment
Shepard, Hetty
Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act (1921)
Sheriff, May
Sickles, Daniel
Sickles, Teresa
Sigourney, Lydia
Silks, Mattie
Sims, Amanda
Sims, J. Marion
Sims, Thetus
Sinatra, Frank
single women
in Depression
in Gilded Age
as immigrants
as New Women
as servants
in sixties
in World War II
Sisters’ Freehold
Sitting Bull
sixties
civil rights movement in
cultural revolution in
sexual revolution in
women’s liberation in
Slattery, Suzie
slaves, slavery
children
education of
elderly
emancipation of
fugitive
as house servants
marriage of
in North
pregnancies of
resistance, rebellion, and escape of
sale of
sexual exploitation of
surgery practiced on
as traders
white women and
see also abolition, abolitionists
Slee, Noah
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Elizabeth Dixon
Smith, Ellen
Smith, Howard
Smith, John
Smith, Lillian
Smith, Mamie
Smith, Margaret Chase
Smith, Mary Rozet
Smith, Sam
Smith College
Smithson, John
smoking
soap
soap operas
social workers
Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children
Solanas, Valerie
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
431
Southworth, E.D.E.N. (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte)
Spicer, Laura
spies
Spinner, Francis
Spock, Benjamin
sports
spouse-beating
Spragg, Eleanor
Springs, Elizabeth
Standish, Miles
Stannard, Mrs. Robert
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Henry
Starbuck, Mary
Starr, Ellen
Steele, John
Steinem, Gloria
Stevens, Judith
Steward, Emma
Steward, Solomon
Stewart, A. T.
Stewart, Mother
Still, William
Stimson, Julia
Stokes, J. G. Phelps
Stone, Lucy
Stowe, Calvin
Stowe, Georgiana
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
English tour of
health issues and
on appearance
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and
strikes
Stuart, Adelaide
Stuart, Elizabeth Sullivan
Stuart, Lavinia
Stubbs, Minnie
Stumph, Marye
suffrage, female
African American
elections and
Sukie (slave)
Supreme Court, U.S.
Swain, Louisa Ann
sweatshops
Sweetser, William
Swisshelm, Jane Cannon
Tappan, Lewis
Tarbell, Ida
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Sarah
teachers
African American
in Depression
in fifties
wages of
teenagers
television
temperance
Temple, Shirley
Terkel, Studs
Terry, Peggy
theology
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)
Thomas, Gertrude
Thompson, Bertha
Thompson, Dorothy
Thom
son, Samuel
Thoreau, Henry David
Thorowgood, Adam
Thorpe, David
Thurber, James
Tituba
tobacco brides
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Townsend, Susanna
Tozier, Elizabeth
Treasury Department, Confederate
Treasury Department, Union
Treatise on Domestic Economy, A (Beecher)
Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatments of Children (DeWees)
Trollope, Frances
True Woman
Truman, Harry S.
Truth, Nancy
Truth, Sojourner (Isabella Van Wagenen)
Tubman, Harriet
Turner, Mary
twenties
African Americans in
appearance in
cars in
domestic life in
entertainment in
flapper in
politics in
sex in
sports in
Twiggy (Leslie Hornby)
Tyler, John
Tyler, Priscilla Cooper
Uchida, Yoshiko
Ulrich, Laurel
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
underground railroad
Union Army
African Americans in
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II
Vanderbilt, William
Vane, Henry
Vassar College
Vaughn, Hester
Victoria, Queen of England
