This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field.
Covers the breadth of American Women'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.
Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.
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"Hewitt has collected introductory yet well rounded essays that provide a diversity of scholarly interpretations of American women's history. Each contributor thoroughly synopsizes germane works while incorporating issues such as race, class, and religion. Highly recommended as an introductory examination of American women's history." Choice
“It is impossible to overstate the value of Nancy Hewitt’s Companion to American Women’s History. It guides us, with tremendous authority, into the vast world of American women’s history, as it has developed and as it stands at the beginning of the 21st century. But it is also a powerful intervention. Cutting across conventional categories and divisions, it recasts the field, raising provocative new questions, suggesting new approaches, and opening fresh paths to the future. I can’t imagine teaching or writing women’s history in the future without this Companion by my side.” Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“The original essays in this volume, based on broad-ranging historiography, will be useful and provocative to both the beginning student and the seasoned scholar.” Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University
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A Companion to American Women's History contains 24 original essays by leading scholars on the most critical themes and topics in American women's history. Since the field began 30 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. A bibliography at the end of the book contains hundreds of secondary readings to guide further research. Scholars and general readers will find this to be a crucial source of information and interpretation of American women's history.
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ALGONQUIAN women in New England, wrote William Wood in 1634, were "more loving, pitiful, and modest, mild, provident, and laborious than their lazy husbands." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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ALGONQUIAN women in New England, wrote William Wood in 1634, were "more loving, pitiful, and modest, mild, provident, and laborious than their lazy husbands." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, United States, Civil War, New England, World War, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, Native American, Harvard University Press, New Haven, South Carolina, North America, Cambridge University Press, New Deal, Great Depression, American Revolution, American West, Johns Hopkins University Press, Linda Gordon, Early Republic, European American, Mexican American, American Indian, New Brunswick New!
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