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Informationen zum Autor 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 (2001), 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). Klappentext A Companion to American Women's History contains twenty-four original essays by leading scholars on the most critical themes and topics in American women's history. Since the field began thirty years ago, there have been no historiographical surveys of American women's history commissioned for one volume until now. This collection highlights, in a series of critical and accessible essays, the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. The coverage is wide-ranging in its timeline and themes, including such topics as the colonial family, antebellum reform, the Civil War, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, World War II, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Differences among women rooted in race, ethnicity, class, and region are highlighted throughout. Arranged chronologically, these essays represent the finest critical work to date on the burgeoning history of American women. Zusammenfassung * 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Contributors ix Introduction xii Part I the Colonial Era, 1600?60 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?80 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?90 225 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?30 295 Nan Enstad 18 Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration 312 Ardis Cameron 19 Women's Movements, 1880s?20s 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?60 382 ...
