ISBN:
9780470998588
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (512 pages)
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to American history
DDC:
305.4/0973
Keywords:
Feminism ; United States ; History
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Women ; United States ; History
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USA
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Frau
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Geschichte 1600-1990
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- A Companion to American Women's History -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I The Colonial Era, 1600-1760 -- 1 The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes -- 2 Slavery and the Slave Trade -- 3 Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America -- 4 Building Colonies, Defining Families -- 5 Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America -- Part II The Creation of a New Nation, 1760-1880 -- 6 A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution -- 7 Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North -- 8 Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era -- 9 Conflicts and Cultures in the West -- 10 Rural Women -- 11 The Civil War Era -- 12 Marriage, Property, and Class -- 13 Health, Sciences, and Sexualities in Victorian America -- Part III Modern America, 1880-1990 -- 14 Education and the Professions -- 15 Wage-earning Women -- 16 Consumer Cultures -- 17 Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890-1930 -- 18 Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration -- 19 Women's Movements, 1880s-1920s -- 20 Medicine, Law, and the State: The History of Reproduction -- 21 The Great Depression and World War II -- 22 Rewriting Postwar Women's History, 1945-1960 -- 23 Civil Rights and Black Liberation -- 24 Second-wave Feminism -- Bibliography: Selected Secondary Sources -- Index.
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