A Companion to American Women's History (eBook)

Nancy A. Hewitt (Herausgeber)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-99858-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Nancy A. Hewitt is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change (1984) and Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (2001), Women's Activism and Social Change (2001), the editor of Women, Families, and Communities (1990), and co-editor of Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (1993), and Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (1996).

Inhalt

A Companion to American Women's History 5
Contents 9
About the Contributors 11
Introduction 14
Part I The Colonial Era, 1600–1760 21
1 The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, andColonial Women in European Eyes 23
2 Slavery and the Slave Trade 40
3 Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America 55
4 Building Colonies, Defining Families 69
5 Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America 86
Part II The Creation of a New Nation, 1760–1880 101
6 A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the AmericanRevolution 103
7 Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North 120
8 Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era 137
9 Conflicts and Cultures in the West 152
10 Rural Women 170
11 The Civil War Era 187
12 Marriage, Property, and Class 213
13 Health, Sciences, and Sexualities in Victorian America 226
Part III Modern America, 1880–1990 245
14 Education and the Professions 247
15 Wage-earning Women 270
16 Consumer Cultures 294
17 Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890–1930 315
18 Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration 332
19 Women's Movements, 1880s–1920s 348
20 Medicine, Law, and the State: The History of Reproduction 368
21 The Great Depression and World War II 386
22 Rewriting Postwar Women's History, 1945–1960 402
23 Civil Rights and Black Liberation 417
24 Second-wave Feminism 434
Bibliography: Selected Secondary Sources 453
Index 501

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to American History
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: American • began thirty • commissioned • Companion • Contains • Critical • debates • Essays • Field • Gender & History • Geschichte • Highlights • historiographical surveys • Historische Geschlechterforschung • History • One • Original • scholars • series • Social Identity • Sociology • Soziale Identität • Soziale Identität • Soziologie • Topics • Volume • womens • years
• ISBN-10: 0-470-99858-X / 047099858X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-99858-8 / 9780470998588