جزییات کتاب
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 FischerChapter Two Slavery and the Slave Trade (pages 20–34): Jennifer L. MorganChapter Three Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America (pages 35–48): Gwenn A. MillerChapter Four Building Colonies, Defining Families (pages 49–65): Ann M. LittleChapter Five Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America (pages 66–80): Susan JusterChapter Six A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution (pages 83–99): Jan E. LewisChapter Seven Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North (pages 100–116): Catherine KellyChapter Eight Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era (pages 117–131): Nancy A. HewittChapter Nine Conflicts and Cultures in the West (pages 132–149): Lisbeth HaasChapter Ten Rural Women (pages 150–166): Marli F. WeinerChapter Eleven The Civil War Era (pages 167–192): Thavolia GlymphChapter Twelve Marriage, Property, and Class (pages 193–205): Amy Dru StanleyChapter Thirteen Health, Sciences, and Sexualities in Victorian America (pages 206–224): Louise Michele NewmanChapter Fourteen Education and the Professions (pages 227–249): Lynn D. GordonChapter Fifteen Wage?earning Women (pages 250–273): Annelise OrleckChapter Sixteen Consumer Cultures (pages 274–294): Susan Porter BensonChapter Seventeen Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890–1930 (pages 295–311): Nan EnstadChapter Eighteen Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration (pages 312–327): Ardis CameronChapter Nineteen Women's Movements, 1880s–1920s (pages 328–347): Kirsten DelegardChapter Twenty Medicine, Law, and the State: The History of Reproduction (pages 348–365): Leslie J. ReaganChapter Twenty?One The Great Depression and World War II (pages 366–381): Karen AndersonChapter Twenty?Two Rewriting Postwar Women's History, 1945–1960 (pages 382–396): Joanne MeyerowitzChapter Twenty?Three Civil Rights and Black Liberation (pages 397–413): Steven F. LawsonChapter Twenty?Four Second?wave Feminism (pages 414–432): Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon