| Description |
xviii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to American history |
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Blackwell companions to American history.
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| 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 and Linda Gordon |
| Notes |
First published in paperback, 2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-480) and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Blackwell Reference Online |
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English |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History.
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Feminism -- United States -- History.
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| Author |
Hewitt, Nancy A., 1951-
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| LC no. |
2002020882 |
| ISBN |
0631212523 |
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140512685X paperback |
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