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A Companion to American Women's History
Nancy A. Hewitt (Edited by), Hewitt (Author)
9781405126854, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 10 January 2005
512 pages
24.8 x 17 x 2.7 cm, 0.88 kg
"Hewitt has collected introductory yet well rounded essays that provide a diversity of scholarly interpretations of American women's history. Each contributor thoroughly synopsizes germane works while incorporating issues such as race, class, and religion. Highly recommended as an introductory examination of American women's history." Choice “It is impossible to overstate the value of Nancy Hewitt’s Companion to American Women’s History. It guides us, with tremendous authority, into the vast world of American women’s history, as it has developed and as it stands at the beginning of the 21st century. But it is also a powerful intervention. Cutting across conventional categories and divisions, it recasts the field, raising provocative new questions, suggesting new approaches, and opening fresh paths to the future. I can’t imagine teaching or writing women’s history in the future without this Companion by my side.” Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “The original essays in this volume, based on broad-ranging historiography, will be useful and provocative to both the beginning student and the seasoned scholar.” Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University
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.
About the Contributors ix Introduction xii Part I the Colonial Era, 1600±1760 1 1The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes 3 Kirsten Fischer 2 Slavery and the Slave Trade 20 Jennifer L. Morgan 3 Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America 35 Gwenn A. Miller 4 Building Colonies, Defining Families 49 Ann M. Little 5 Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America 66 Susan Juster Part II the Creation of a New Nation, 1760±1880 81 6 A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution 83 Jan E. Lewis 7 Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North 100 Catherine Kelly 8 Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era 117 Nancy A. Hewitt 9 Conflicts and Cultures in the West 132 Lisbeth Haas 10 Rural Women 150 Marli F. Weiner 11 The Civil War Era 167 Thavolia Glymph 12 Marriage, Property, and Class 193 Amy Dru Stanley 13 Health, Sciences, and Sexualities in Victorian America 206 Louise Michele Newman Part III Modern America, 1880±1990 225 14 Education and the Professions 227 Lynn D. Gordon 15 Wage-earning Women 250 Annelise Orleck 16 Consumer Cultures 274 Susan Porter Benson 17 Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890±1930 295 Nan Enstad 18 Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration 312 Ardis Cameron 19 Women's Movements, 1880s±1920s 328 Kirsten Delegard 20 Medicine, Law, and the State: The History of Reproduction 348 Leslie J. Reagan 21The Great Depression and World War II 366 Karen Anderson 22 Rewriting Postwar Women's History, 1945±1960 382 Joanne Meyerowitz 23 Civil Rights and Black Liberation 397 Steven F. Lawson 24 Second-wave Feminism 414 Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon Bibliography: Selected Secondary Sources 433 Compiled by April de Stefano Index 481
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
