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392–93

Shakespeare, William, 115–20 Shaw, George Bernard, 266 Shepherd, Virginia Hayes,

220

Shewmake, Susan Cornwall, 223

“Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The” (Hemingway), 362

Showings
(Julian of Norwich), 81

Sigourney, Lydia, 183

Sills, Judith, 387

single mothers, 398

slavery, 192, 208, 210,

210–14, 214–23

American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 218

antimiscegenation laws, 142, 144, 193

opposition to, 223 separation of families,

221–22

sexual exploitation of, 219–21

slave marriages, 142, 144,

175, 215–18, 223–24

World Anti-Slavery Convention, 197, 198

Small Catechism
(Luther), 99 Smith, Gerritt, 197

Smith, William, 154 “Solitude of Self, The”

(Stanton), 202 Somerville, Mrs. Keith

Frazier, 336–38

Sophocles, 19

Soranus, 41

Southern Lady, The
(Scott), 222–23

SPARS (U.S. Coast Guard), 333

Spock, Benjamin, 358

Sporus, 40

Spotswood, Alexander, 144

spousal abuse, 23, 111

in Colonial America, 148

spousal abuse (
continued
) in the late twentieth century, 363–64

legal permission for, 46

in medieval Europe, 45–47 runaway wives, 150–51
See also
rape

Spragg, Eleanor, 142 Staël, Madame de, 172

Stanford study, 384–85, 387

Stansell, Christine, 260 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 190,

194, 195–203,
202
,

207, 306

Stanton, Henry B., 197, 199–200, 202

Statilia Messallina, 40

Steinem, Gloria, 372 Stephens, Dorothy Barnes,

335–36

Stephens, James R., 335–36 Stetson, Charles Walter, 291 Stetson, Katherine, 291

Stockholm marriages, 265

Stone, Lucy, 175, 194

Storer, Horatio, 303 “Story of My Misfortunes,

The” (Abelard), 60

Straight, Susan, 395–96

Strecker, Edward, 362

Strindberg, August, 266

Strober, Myra, 384, 387

Subjection of Women, The

(Mill), 189

Suetonius, 40

suffrage.
See under
feminism Sukie (slave), 220

suppositories, 30

Tacitus, 33, 38 Talmud and Eve, 3

Taming of the Shrew, The

(Shakespeare), 118–20 Tanner, Annie Clark, 257 Tarquinius, Sextus, 25 Taussig, Fred J., 314

Taylor, Elizabeth, 358

Telemachus, 18

Tenth Muse, The
(Bradstreet), 132–33

Terentia, 31

Terkel, Studs, 368

Tertullian, 15

Tess of the d’Urbervilles

(Hardy), 277

Theory of the Leisure Class

(Veblen), 288

Thomas, Gertrude, 204

Thomas, Mary, 331

Thompson, Berenice, 326

Thompson, Clara, 361
Three Men and a Baby
, 383 Thynne, John, 123

Thynne, Thomas, 117, 123

Tiberius, 38

“To my Dear and Loving Husband” (Bradstreet), 130

Tolstoy, Leo, 266, 277

tooth extraction,
104

Treatise on Domestic Economy

(Beecher), 195

Treatise on Love
(Capellanus), 67

Treen, Catherine, 150–51

Tristan, 65–66

Trollope, Anthony (son), 177

Trollope, Frances, 177–78,

185, 191

Trollope, Thomas, 177–78

Trotula, 72–73

Turia, 39

Tuttle, William, 323

Twain, Mark, 399

Tyler, Elaine, 338

Uitz, Erika, 73

Ulrich, Laurel, 138, 141

unfaithfulness, 399–400

Updike, John, 16

Valerius Maximus, 38

van Adrichem, Symon, 94 van de Passe, Simon, 143 van Du vendoorde, Lysbeth,

94

van Eyck, Jan, 94

Van Meckenem, Israhel, 95 Veblen, Thorstein, 288

venereal disease, 299

Vermigli, 107

vice, suppression of, 299–300

Victoria, Queen, 183, 208

Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(Wollstonecraft), 153, 172, 194

von Suttner, Bertha, 266

WACS (Women’s Army Corps)/WAAC (Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps), 333–34, 334–35

WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferry Squadron), 333

Walker, Elkanah, 236

Walker, Henry, 397 Walker, Mary Richardson,

236

Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 276 Warner, Dr. (abortionist), 304 Washington, George, 156

Washington, Martha, 160

Watson, Henry, 212

Watson, Sophia, 211–12
Way We Never Were, The
(Coonitz), 363

Way We Really Are, The

(Coontz), 387

Wayne, Anthony, 158 WAVES (Women Accepted

for Voluntary Service of the U.S. Navy), 333, 335–36

wedding ring,
57
, 84 weddings

in ancient Greece, 21–22 in the antebellum South,

208

banns, 53–53 Marriage Certificate

(Currier lithograph),
210

in the Jewish community, 55–56

June bride,
353

medieval Europe, 52–55,

Native American, 233–34,

235–36

Prayer Book of 1552, 108–9, 113

Puritans and, 114–15

in Roman times, 28–29, 40

same-sex unions, 40–42

as a sacrament, 46, 108 in Tudor England, 114 wedding veils, 208

on the Western frontier, 243–44, 246–52,

260–61

wedding contracts

in ancient Greece, 21 in Biblical times, 4,
5

in medieval Europe, 47–49, 49–51, 51–52, 84

in Roman times, 26–27, 30

Weiner, Marli, 211

Weitzman, Lenore, 390

Well of Loneliness, The
(Hall), 308

Wells, H. G., 306

Wendy, Minerva, 223

Index

400

Western frontier, 226–62 279 women in the workforce, conditions and hardship, support, 265–66, 288–93 317–20, 320–26

227–30, 238–39, Woman’s Christian Work Projects

239–40, 240–41, Temperance Movement, Administration, 323

247–49 296 Wright, Caroline, 224

249–51,
252
(Perkins), 288–89, 291

immigrants and, 231–32
Women of England, The
(Ellis), Xenophon, 24 interracial marriages, 182

235–36, 249–51 women’s clubs, 343–44

Mormon plural marriages,
Women’s Exponent,
255
Yellow Wallpaper, The

252–58
Women’s Home Companion,
(Gilman), 291

Native Americans, 232–34 317, 363 Young, Brigham, 257 Oregon Trail, 236–41 Woodbridge, John, 132 Young Women’s Christian “Overland 1952,” 228–29 Woodbridge, Mercy, 132, 134 Association, 344

Wharton, Edith, 180 Wooley, Mary Emma, 280 Youngman, Henny, 391 “What Every Girl Should Woolson, Abba Goold, 280,

Know” (Sanger), 305 290

What Women Should Know
work revolution, 380–91 Zeus, 21 (Duffey), 301 dual-earner couples,

Whateley, William, 122 380–81, 385–87

When Abortion Was a Crime
househusbands, 381–83 (Reagan), 304 husbands, working

Why Not to Take a Wife,
mother’s effects on, 384 76–77 the marriage market,

widow’s cap and weeds, 208 396–97

“Widow’s Grief, A” (Christine maternal leave, 385–86 de Pizan), 81 opposition, 390–91

“Wife, The” (Dickinson), 175 women, longevity of, “Wife’s Protector, The,” 300 389–90

“Wild Woman, The” (Linton), women, lower earning

279 power of, 389–90

Wilkinson, Virginia Snow, World War II, 317–51 327–28 American Red Cross,

Williams, Rose, 214–15, 301 344–45, 345–48

Wilson, Sloan, 362 advertising,
340
,
341

Winstead, Lizz, 391 African-Americans and,

Winter’s tale, The
330, 343

(Shakespeare), 16–17 childcare, 323–24

Winthrop, John, 135, 136 Civilian Welfare

Winthrop, John, Jr., 132 Association, 331–32 wives of Henry VIII,
109
housekeeping, 339–43 Wolfe, Linda, 376 housing shortage, 342–43

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 153, postwar wives, 348–51

172, 194, 268 Rosie the Riveter, 322

Woloch, Nancy, 140 shipbuilding wives,

Woman and the New Race
326–30

(Sanger), 306 southern women as defense Woman Question, the, workers, 331–33

263–93 volunteerism, 342–48

in American, 280–93 war brides,
347
, 348 New Woman in England, War Manpower

268–70 Commission (WMC),

opposition and 320, 322, 323

controversy,
266
, war work recruitment,
321

266–68,
267
, 268–75, women in the armed

276–79, 286–88 service, 333–34,

politics, involvement in, 334–35, 335–36

M
ARILYN
Y
ALOM
is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of
A History of the Wife
;
A History of the Breast
;
Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women’s Memory
; and
Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness
. She lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband, psychi atrist and writer Irvin Yalom.

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