A Companion to American Women's History Contributor(s): Hewitt, Nancy A. (Author), Valk, Anne M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1119522692 ISBN-13: 9781119522690 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) |
Physical Information: (1.50 lbs) |
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Publisher Description: The most important collection of essays on American Women's History This collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women's history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It assesses the past thirty years of scholarship, capturing the ways that women's historians confront issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This second edition updates essays related to Indigenous women, slavery, the American Revolution, Civil War, the West, activism, labor, popular culture, civil rights, and feminism. And it offers new analyses of laws, capitalism, free Blacks, transgender, welfare, reproductive politics, migrants and refugees, and oral history. Spanning from the 15th through the 21st centuries, chapters show how historians of women, gender, and sexuality have challenged established chronologies and advanced new understandings of America's political, economic, intellectual and social history. This edition also features a new essay on the history of women's suffrage to coincide with the 100th anniversary of passage of the 19th Amendment, as well as a new article that carries issues of women, gender and sexuality into the 21st century.
A Companion to American Women's History, Second Edition is an ideal book for advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying American/U.S. women's history, history of gender and sexuality, and African American women's history. It will also appeal to scholars of these areas at all levels, as well as public historians working in museums, archives, and historic sites. |