Ebook: A Companion to American Women's History

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