Blackwell Companion to American Women's History.
This companion contains 24 original essays by leading scholars on the most critical themes and topics in American women's history. The coverage is wide-ranging, including such topics as the colonial family, antebellum reform, the Civil War, marriage, health, sexuality, education, and immigratio...
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2007.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to American history.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes; 2 Slavery and the Slave Trade; 3 Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America; 4 Building Colonies, Defining Families; 5 Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America; 6 A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution; 7 Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North; 8 Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era; 9 Conflicts and Cultures in the West; 10 Rural Women; 11 The Civil War Era.
- 12 Marriage, Property, and Class13 Health, Sciences, and Sexualities in Victorian America; 14 Education and the Professions; 15 Wage-earning Women; 16 Consumer Cultures; 17 Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890-1930; 18 Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration; 19 Women's Movements, 1880s-1920s; 20 Medicine, Law, and the State: The History of Reproduction; 21 The Great Depression and World War II; 22 Rewriting Postwar Women's Hi.