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Table des matières
Introduction Part One: The Colonial Era, 1600-1760 1 Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes: Kirsten Fischer (University of Minnesota) 2 Slavery and the Slave Trade: Jennifer L. Morgan (Rutgers University) 3 Contact and Conquest in the Americas: Gwenn A. Miller (Duke University) 4 Building Colonies, Defining Families: Ann M. Little (Colorado State University) 5 Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America: Susan Juster (University of Michigan) Part Two: The Creation of a New Nation, 1760-1880 6 A Revolution for Whom?: Jan E. Lewis (Rutgers University) 7 Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North: Catherine Kelly (University of Oklahoma) 8 Religion, Reform, and Radicalism: Nancy A. Hewitt (Rutgers University) 9 Conflicts and Cultures in the West: Lisbeth Haas (University of California at Santa Cruz) 10 Rural America: Marli Weiner (University of Maine, Orono) 11 The Civil War Era: Thavolia Glymph (Duke University) 12 Marriage, Property and the Ideals of Class: Amy Dru Stanley (University of Chicago) 13 Health, Science and Sexualities: Louise Michele Newman (University of Florida) Part Three: Modern America, 1880-1990 14 Education and the Professions, 1880-1990: Lynn Gordon (University of Rochester) 15 Wage-earning Women, 1900-1990: Annelise Orleck (Dartmouth College) 16 Consumer Cultures, 1880-1990: Susan Porter Benson (University of Connecticut) 17 Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890-1930: Nan Enstad (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 18 Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration: Ardis Cameron (University of Southern Maine) 19 Women's Movements, 1880s-1920s: Kirsten Delegard (Duke University) 20 Medicine, Law, and the State: Leslie J. Reagan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 21 The Great Depression and World War II: Karen Anderson (University of Arizona) 22 Rewriting Postwar Women's History, 1945-1960: Joanne Meyerowitz (Yale University) 23 Civil Rights, and Black Liberation: Steven F. Lawson (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) 24 Second Wave Feminism: Rosalyn Baxandall (State University of New York at Old Westbury) and Linda Gordon (New York University) Bibliography, Compiled by April DeStefano (Claremont McKenna College)
A propos de l'auteur
Nancy A. Hewitt is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change (1984) and Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s Women's Activism and Social Change (2001), the editor of Women, Families, and Communities (1990), and co-editor of Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (1993), and Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (1996).
Résumé
* Contains 24 original essays by leading experts in American Womena s history. * Covers the breadth of American Womena 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.
