i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment - An American Perspective -- The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic -- Equity vs. Equality: Emerging Concepts of Women’s Political Status in the Age of Jackson -- “Co-Laborers in the Cause”: Women in the Ante-bellum Nativist Movement -- “Moral Suasion is Moral Balderdash”: Women, Politics, and Social Activism in the 1850s -- Harlots or Heroines? -- Women in the Southern Farmers’ Alliance: A Reconsideration of the Role and Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth- Century South -- The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780–1920 -- Immigrant Women and Consumer Protest: The New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902 -- Fighting for a Future -- Women and the Socialist Party -- Other Socialists: Native-Born Immigrant Women in the Socialist Party of America, 1901–1917 -- Housewives, Socialists, and the Politics of Food: The 1917 New York Cost-of-Living Protests -- Defining Socialist Womanhood: the Women’s Page of the Jewish Daily Forward in 1919 -- Socialism and Women in the United States, 1900–1917