Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-480) and index
Contents:
The imperial gaze : Native American, African American, and colonial women in European eyes / Kirsten Fischer -- Slavery and the slave trade / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Contact and conquest in colonial North America / Gwenn A. Miller -- Building colonies, defining families / Ann M. Little -- Sinners and saints : women and religion in colonial America / Susan Juster -- A revolution for whom? Women in the era of the American revolution / Jan E. Lewis -- Gender and class formations in the antebellum North / Catherine Kelly -- Religion, reform, and radicalism in the antebellum era / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Conflicts and cultures in the west / Lisbeth Haas -- Rural women / Marli F. Weiner -- The Civil War era / Thavolia Glymph -- Marriage, property, and class / Amy Dru Stanley -- Health, sciences, and sexualities in Victorian America / Louise Michele Newman -- Education and the professions / Lynn D. Gordon -- Wage-earning women / Annelise Orleck -- Consumer cultures / Susan Porter Benson -- Urban spaces and popular cultures, 1890-1930 / Nan Enstad -- Women on the move : migration and immigration / Ardis Cameron -- Women's movements, 1880s-1920s / Kirsten Delegard -- Medicine, law, and the state : the history of reproduction / Leslie J. Reagan -- The Great Depression and World War II / Karen Anderson -- Rewriting postwar women's history, 1945-1960 / Joanne Meyerowitz -- Civil rights and Black liberation / Steven F. Lawson -- Second-wave feminism / Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon
Summary:
Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. --from publisher description