A Companion to American Women’s History

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. It also includes a discussion of laws, capitalism, gender identity and transgender experience, welfare, reproductive politics, oral history, as well as an exploration of the perspectives of free Blacks and migrants and refugees. 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. Includes twenty-three original essays by leading scholars in American women's, gender and sexuality history Highlights the most recent scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field Substantially updates the first edition with new authors and topics that represent the expanding fields of women, gender, and sexuality Engages issues of race, ethnicity, region, and class as they shape and are shaped by women's and gender history Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including Native women, colonial law and religion, slavery and freedom, women's activism, work and welfare, culture and capitalism, the state, feminism, digital and oral history, and more 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.

The most important collection of essays on American Women's HistoryThis 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. It also includes a discussion of laws, capitalism, gender identity and transgender experience, welfare, reproductive politics, oral history, as well as an exploration of the perspectives of free Blacks and migrants and refugees.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.* Includes twenty-three original essays by leading scholars in American women's, gender and sexuality history* Highlights the most recent scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field* Substantially updates the first edition with new authors and topics that represent the expanding fields of women, gender, and sexuality* Engages issues of race, ethnicity, region, and class as they shape and are shaped by women's and gender history* Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including Native women, colonial law and religion, slavery and freedom, women's activism, work and welfare, culture and capitalism, the state, feminism, digital and oral history, and moreA 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.

About the Contributors ixIntroduction 1Nancy A. Hewitt and Anne M. Valk1 Native Women in the Americas to 1800 7Camilla Townsend2 Slavery and the Slave Trade 23Ebony Jones and Jennifer L. Morgan3 Intersectional Studies of Early American Women and Christianity 39Anna M. Lawrence4 Women and the Law in Early America 55Terri L. Snyder and Cornelia Hughes Dayton5 Women and the Long American Revolution 73Serena Zabin6 Intimate Economies, 1790-1860 89April Haynes7 The Future Looks Bright: Black Women, Slavery, and Freedom, 1780-1865 107Amrita Chakrabarti Myers and Jessica Millward8 Race, Class, Region, and Activism, 1820s-1870s 123Nancy A. Hewitt9 Conflicts and Cultures in the Colonial and Nineteenth-Century West 141Lisbeth Haas10 Women in the Civil War Era 157Hilary Green11 Gender and Social Movements from Reconstruction to the New Deal 175Leslie Dunlap12 Woman Suffrage, Women's Votes 193Liette Gidlow13 Recovering a Gender-Transgressive Past: A Transgender Historiography 209Emily Skidmore14 Popular Cultures 223Emily Westkaemper15 Working Women, "Welfare Moms," and Struggles for Subsistence in the Twentieth Century 241Annelise Orleck16 Capitalism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 261Tracey Deutsch and Nan Enstad17 Women, Gender, and the State, ca. 1900-2010 279Jennifer Mittelstadt and Rachel Louise Moran18 Sterilization, Birth Control, and Abortion: Reproductive Politics from 1945 to the Present 299Jennifer Nelson19 Global Women: Migrants and Refugees, 1850s-2000 319Elizabeth Zanoni20 Civil Rights and Black Liberation 337Rebecca Tuuri and Steven F. Lawson21 Rethinking Feminist Movements after World War II 353Anne M. Valk22 Oral History and Testimony in Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 373Jessica Wilkerson23 Digital Demands Toward Decolonial Feminist Futures 389Brittney CooperIndex 405