A Companion to American Women's History: Hewitt/A Companion

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. Content: Chapter One The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes (pages 1–19): Kirsten Fischer Chapter Two Slavery and the Slave Trade (pages 20–34): Jennifer L. Morgan Chapter Three Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America (pages 35–48): Gwenn A. Miller Chapter Four Building Colonies, Defining Families (pages 49–65): Ann M. Little Chapter Five Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America (pages 66–80): Susan Juster Chapter Six A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution (pages 83–99): Jan E. Lewis Chapter Seven Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North (pages 100–116): Catherine Kelly Chapter Eight Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era (pages 117–131): Nancy A. Hewitt Chapter Nine Conflicts and Cultures in the West (pages 132–149): Lisbeth Haas Chapter Ten Rural Women (pages 150–166): Marli F. Weiner Chapter Eleven The Civil War Era (pages 167–192): Thavolia Glymph Chapter Twelve Marriage, Property, and Class (pages 193–205): Amy Dru Stanley Chapter Thirteen Health, Sciences, and Sexualities in Victorian America (pages 206–224): Louise Michele Newman Chapter Fourteen Education and the Professions (pages 227–249): Lynn D. Gordon Chapter Fifteen Wage?earning Women (pages 250–273): Annelise Orleck Chapter Sixteen Consumer Cultures (pages 274–294): Susan Porter Benson Chapter Seventeen Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890–1930 (pages 295–311): Nan Enstad Chapter Eighteen Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration (pages 312–327): Ardis Cameron Chapter Nineteen Women's Movements, 1880s–1920s (pages 328–347): Kirsten Delegard Chapter Twenty Medicine, Law, and the State: The History of Reproduction (pages 348–365): Leslie J. Reagan Chapter Twenty?One The Great Depression and World War II (pages 366–381): Karen Anderson Chapter Twenty?Two Rewriting Postwar Women's History, 1945–1960 (pages 382–396): Joanne Meyerowitz Chapter Twenty?Three Civil Rights and Black Liberation (pages 397–413): Steven F. Lawson Chapter Twenty?Four Second?wave Feminism (pages 414–432): Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon A Companion to American Women's History contains 24 original essays by leading scholars on the most critical themes and topics in American women's history. Since the field began 30 years ago, there have been no historiographical surveys of American women's history commissioned for one volume until now. This collection highlights, in a series of critical and accessible essays, the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. The coverage is wide-ranging in its timeline and themes, including such topics as the colonial family, antebellum reform, the Civil War, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, World War II, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Differences among women rooted in race, ethnicity, class, and region are highlighted throughout. Arranged chronologically, these essays represent the finest critical work to date on the burgeoning history of American women. A bibliography at the end of the book contains A Companion to American Women's History contains twenty-four original essays by leading scholars on the most critical themes and topics in American women's history. Since the field began thirty years ago, there have been no historiographical surveys of American women's history commissioned for one volume until now. This collection highlights, in a series of critical and accessible essays, the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. The coverage is wide-ranging in its timeline and themes, including such topics as the colonial family, antebellum reform, the Civil War, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, World War II, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Differences among women rooted in race, ethnicity, class, and region are highlighted throughout. Arranged chronologically, these essays represent the finest critical work to date on the burgeoning history of American women. Hundreds of secondary readings to guide further research. Scholars and general readers will find this to be a crucial source of information and interpretation of American women's history