A Companion to American Women's History

Copyright © 2002, 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to American Women's History

Editor(s): Nancy A. Hewitt

Published Online: 13 DEC 2007

Print ISBN: 9780631212522

Online ISBN: 9780470998595

DOI: 10.1002/9780470998595

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This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field.

  • Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism.
  • Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.
  • Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xviii)

  2. Part I: The Colonial Era, 1600–1760

    1. Chapter One

      The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes (pages 1–19)

      Kirsten Fischer

    2. Chapter Two

      Slavery and the Slave Trade (pages 20–34)

      Jennifer L. Morgan

    3. Chapter Three

      Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America (pages 35–48)

      Gwenn A. Miller

    4. Chapter Four

      Building Colonies, Defining Families (pages 49–65)

      Ann M. Little

    5. Chapter Five

      Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America (pages 66–80)

      Susan Juster

  3. Part II: The Creation of a New Nation, 1760–1880

    1. Chapter Six

      A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution (pages 83–99)

      Jan E. Lewis

    2. Chapter Seven

      Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North (pages 100–116)

      Catherine Kelly

    3. Chapter Eight

      Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era (pages 117–131)

      Nancy A. Hewitt

    4. Chapter Nine

      Conflicts and Cultures in the West (pages 132–149)

      Lisbeth Haas

    5. Chapter Ten

      Rural Women (pages 150–166)

      Marli F. Weiner

    6. Chapter Eleven

      The Civil War Era (pages 167–192)

      Thavolia Glymph

    7. Chapter Twelve

      Marriage, Property, and Class (pages 193–205)

      Amy Dru Stanley

    8. Chapter Thirteen

      Health, Sciences, and Sexualities in Victorian America (pages 206–224)

      Louise Michele Newman

  4. Part III: Modern America, 1880–1990

    1. Chapter Fourteen

      Education and the Professions (pages 227–249)

      Lynn D. Gordon

    2. Chapter Fifteen

      Wage-earning Women (pages 250–273)

      Annelise Orleck

    3. Chapter Sixteen

      Consumer Cultures (pages 274–294)

      Susan Porter Benson

    4. Chapter Seventeen

      Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890–1930 (pages 295–311)

      Nan Enstad

    5. Chapter Eighteen

      Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration (pages 312–327)

      Ardis Cameron

    6. Chapter Nineteen

      Women's Movements, 1880s–1920s (pages 328–347)

      Kirsten Delegard

    7. Chapter Twenty

      Medicine, Law, and the State: The History of Reproduction (pages 348–365)

      Leslie J. Reagan

    8. Chapter Twenty-One

      The Great Depression and World War II (pages 366–381)

      Karen Anderson

    9. Chapter Twenty-Two

      Rewriting Postwar Women's History, 1945–1960 (pages 382–396)

      Joanne Meyerowitz

    10. Chapter Twenty-Three

      Civil Rights and Black Liberation (pages 397–413)

      Steven F. Lawson

    11. Chapter Twenty-Four

      Second-wave Feminism (pages 414–432)

      Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon

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      Bibliography: Selected Secondary Sources (pages 433–480)

      April de Stefano

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      Index (pages 481–492)

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