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ISBN 10: 140512685X 

ISBN 13: 9781405126854

Author: Nancy A. Hewitt

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:

Part I: The Colonial Era, 1600–1760

1. The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes – Kirsten Fischer

2. Slavery and the Slave Trade – Jennifer L. Morgan

3. Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America – Gwenn A. Miller

4. Building Colonies, Defining Families – Ann M. Little

5. Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America – Susan Juster

Part II: The Creation of a New Nation, 1760–1880
6. A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution – Jan E. Lewis
7. Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North – Catherine Kelly
8. Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era – Nancy A. Hewitt
9. Conflicts and Cultures in the West – Lisbeth Haas
10. Rural Women – Marli F. Weiner
11. The Civil War Era – Thavolia Glymph
12. Marriage, Property, and Class – Amy Dru Stanley
13. Health, Sciences, and Sexualities in Victorian America – Louise Michele Newman

Part III: Modern America, 1880–1990
14. Education and the Professions – Lynn D. Gordon
15. Wage-earning Women – Annelise Orleck
16. Consumer Cultures – Susan Porter Benson
17. Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890–1930 – Nan Enstad
18. Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration – Ardis Cameron
19. Women’s Movements, 1880s–1920s – Kirsten Delegard
20. Medicine, Law, and the State: The History of Reproduction – Leslie J. Reagan
21. The Great Depression and World War II – Karen Anderson
22. Rewriting Postwar Women’s History, 1945–1960 – Joanne Meyerowitz
23. Civil Rights and Black Liberation – Steven F. Lawson
24. Second-wave Feminism – Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon

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