| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3 | The History Cooperative

Jean V. Matthews. The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875–1930. (The American Ways Series.) Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2003. Pp. 211. $24.95.
The history of middle-class American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generates a deluge of publications. Every year new monographs and articles enrich the literature. Jean V. Matthews's compact synthesis capitalizes on this outpouring. Matthews's subject is the development of the women's movement from the 1870s through the 1920s. Her book conveys the wide range of activities among middle-class women who turned from primarily domestic roles to public life. Topics include education, employment, the professions, organizations, ideologies, suffragism, and the significance of the vote.	1
Matthews's brief survey is apparently a sequel to her earlier book, Women's Struggle for Equality: The First Phase, 1828–1876 (1997). The two books, each with seven short chapters, are similarly organized; both are unannotated, and both seem geared to the general reader or to the classroom. The volume considered here is cleverly conceived, unpretentious in tone, and engaging in style. Matthews does not break new ground. Rather, she sums up the state of the field. Commendably, she presents what she has to say with clarity, coherence, and dispatch.	. . .

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