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From the first European encounters with Native American women to today's crisis of sexual assault, The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History boldly interprets the diverse history of women and how ideas about gender shaped their access to political and cultural power in North America.
Over twenty-nine chapters, this handbook illustrates how women's and gender history can shape how we view the past, looking at how gender influenced people's lives as they participated in migration, colonialism, trade, warfare, artistic production, and community building. Theoretically cutting edge, each chapter is alive with colorful historical characters, from young Chicanas transforming urban culture, to free women of color forging abolitionist doctrines, Asian migrant women defending the legitimacy of their marriages, and transwomen fleeing incarceration. Together, their lives constitute the history of a continent.
Leading scholars across multiple generations demonstrate the power of innovative research to excavate a history hidden in plain sight. Scrutinizing silences in the historical record, from the inattention to enslaved women's opinions to the suppression of Indian women's involvement in border diplomacy, the authors challenge the nature of historical evidence and remap what counts in our interpretation of the past.
Together and separately, these essays offer readers a deep understanding of the variety and centrality of women's lives to all dimensions of the American past, even as they show that the boundaries of "women," "American," and "history" have shifted across the centuries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Women, Gender, and American History
- Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson
- Part I. EMPIRE, BOUNDARY CROSSING, AND THE BORDERS OF BELONGING
- 1. Gender Frontiers and Early Encounters
- Kathleen M. Brown
- 2. Manhood and Gender in the United States Empire
- Toby L. Ditz
- 3. Women, Conquest, and Imperialism in the American West
- Deena J. González
- 4. Gender, Migration, and the American Empire
- Lorena Oropeza
- Part II. WORKERS, FAMILIES, AND HOUSEHOLDS
- 5. Women, Unfree Labor, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
- Marisa J. Fuentes
- 6. Women, Power, and Families in Early Modern North America
- Sarah M. S. Pearsall
- 7. Women and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century
- Daina Ramey Berry and Nakia D. Parker
- 8. Women's Labors in Industrial and Post-Industrial America
- Eileen Boris and Lara Vapnek
- Part III. SEXUALITIES, IDENTITIES, AND THE BODY
- 9. Public and Print Cultures of Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Patricia Cline Cohen
- 10. Interracial Sex, Marriage, and the Nation
- Mary Ting Yi Lui
- 11. Reproduction, Birth Control, and Motherhood in the United States
- Rickie Solinger
- 12. Sexual Coercion in America
- Sharon Block
- 13. Gender, the Body, and Disability
- Rebecca Kluchin
- 14. Transgender Representations, Identities, and Communities
- Jen Manion
- Part IV. CULTURE, COMMMERICE, AND RELIGION
- 15. Women, Trade, and the Roots of Consumer Societies
- Serena R. Zabin
- 16. Gender and Consumption in the Modern United States
- Tracey Deutsch
- 17. Women at Play in Popular Culture
- M. Alison Kibler
- 18. Women, Gender, and Religion in the United States
- Ann Braude
- Part V. ACTIVISM
- 19. Religion, Reform, and Anti-Slavery
- Margaret Washington
- 20. Women's Rights, Suffrage, and Citizenship, 1789-1820
- Ellen Carol DuBois
- 21. Women, Gender, Race, and the Welfare State
- Rhonda Y. Williams
- 22. US Feminisms and their Global Connections
- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
- 23. Sexual Minorities and Sexual Rights
- Marcia M. Gallo
- 24. Women, Gender, and Conservatism in Twentieth-Century America
- Michelle Nickerson
- Part VI. WAR AND TRANSFORMATION
- 25. Women, War, and Revolution
- Kate Haulman
- 26. Women, the Civil War, and Reconstruction
- Hannah Rosen
- 27. Women and World War in Comparative Perspective
- Meghan K. Winchell
- 28. Gender, Civil Rights, and the US Global Cold War
- Dayo F. Gore
- Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (2009) and co-author of Global Americans (2017). She is a founding and standing editor of Oxford Bibliographies-Atlantic History, a board member of Women and Social Movements, an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, and a past elected trustee of the Business History Conference.
Lisa G. Materson is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 (2009) and articles on Puerto Rican women's independence activism and African American women's internationalism. She is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer and board member of Women and Social Movements.
Zusammenfassung
The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History boldly interprets the history of diverse women and how ideas about gender shaped their access to political and cultural power in North America over six centuries.
