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A Companion to American Women's History
Nancy A. Hewitt (Edited by), NA Hewitt (Author), Anne M. Valk (Edited by)
9781119522638, Wiley
Hardback, published 3 December 2020
432 pages
25.9 x 18.5 x 3 cm, 0.975 kg
The most important collection of essays on American Women's History This collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women's history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It assesses the past thirty years of scholarship, capturing the ways that women's historians confront issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This second edition updates essays related to Indigenous women, slavery, the American Revolution, Civil War, the West, activism, labor, popular culture, civil rights, and feminism. It also includes a discussion of laws, capitalism, gender identity and transgender experience, welfare, reproductive politics, oral history, as well as an exploration of the perspectives of free Blacks and migrants and refugees. Spanning from the 15th through the 21st centuries, chapters show how historians of women, gender, and sexuality have challenged established chronologies and advanced new understandings of America's political, economic, intellectual and social history. This edition also features a new essay on the history of women's suffrage to coincide with the 100th anniversary of passage of the 19th Amendment, as well as a new article that carries issues of women, gender and sexuality into the 21st century. A Companion to American Women's History, Second Edition is an ideal book for advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying American/U.S. women's history, history of gender and sexuality, and African American women's history. It will also appeal to scholars of these areas at all levels, as well as public historians working in museums, archives, and historic sites.
About the Contributors ix Introduction 1 1 Native Women in the Americas to 1800 7 2 Slavery and the Slave Trade 23 3 Intersectional Studies of Early American Women and Christianity 39 4 Women and the Law in Early America 55 5 Women and the Long American Revolution 73 6 Intimate Economies, 1790–1860 89 7 The Future Looks Bright: Black Women, Slavery, and Freedom, 1780–1865 107 8 Race, Class, Region, and Activism, 1820s–1870s 123 9 Conflicts and Cultures in the Colonial and Nineteenth-Century West 141 10 Women in the Civil War Era 157 11 Gender and Social Movements from Reconstruction to the New Deal 175 12 Woman Suffrage, Women’s Votes 193 13 Recovering a Gender-Transgressive Past: A Transgender Historiography 209 14 Popular Cultures 223 15 Working Women, “Welfare Moms,” and Struggles for Subsistence in the Twentieth Century 241 16 Capitalism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 261 17 Women, Gender, and the State, ca. 1900–2010 279 18 Sterilization, Birth Control, and Abortion: Reproductive Politics from 1945 to the Present 299 19 Global Women: Migrants and Refugees, 1850s–2000 319 20 Civil Rights and Black Liberation 337 21 Rethinking Feminist Movements after World War II 353 22 Oral History and Testimony in Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 373 23 Digital Demands Toward Decolonial Feminist Futures 389 Index 405
Nancy A. Hewitt and Anne M. Valk
Camilla Townsend
Ebony Jones and Jennifer L. Morgan
Anna M. Lawrence
Terri L. Snyder and Cornelia Hughes Dayton
Serena Zabin
April Haynes
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers and Jessica Millward
Nancy A. Hewitt
Lisbeth Haas
Hilary Green
Leslie Dunlap
Liette Gidlow
Emily Skidmore
Emily Westkaemper
Annelise Orleck
Tracey Deutsch and Nan Enstad
Jennifer Mittelstadt and Rachel Louise Moran
Jennifer Nelson
Elizabeth Zanoni
Rebecca Tuuri and Steven F. Lawson
Anne M. Valk
Jessica Wilkerson
Brittney Cooper
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
