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Offers a nuanced account of the multiple aspects of women’s lives and their roles in American society American Women's History presents a comprehensive survey of women's experience in the U.S. and North America from pre-European contact to the present. Centering women of color and incorporating issues of sexuality and gender, this student-friendly textbook draws from cutting-edge scholarship to provide a more inclusive and complicated perspective on the conventional narrative of U.S. women’s history. Throughout the text, the authors highlight diverse voices such as Matoaka (Pocahontas), Hilletie van Olinda, Margaret Sanger, and Annelle Ponder. Arranged chronologically, American Women's History explores the major turning points in American women’s history while exploring various contexts surrounding race, work, politics, activism, and the construction of self. Concise chapters cover a uniquely wide range of topics, such as the roles of Indigenous women in North American cultures, the ways women participated in the American Revolution, the lives of women of color in the antebellum South and their experiences with slave resistance and rebellion, the radical transformation brought on by Black women during Reconstruction, the activism of women before and after suffrage was won, and more. Discusses how Indigenous women navigated cross-cultural contact and resisted assimilation efforts after the arrival of Europeans Considers the construction of Black female bodies and the implications of the slave trade in the Americas Addresses the cultural shifts, demographic changes, and women’s rights movements of the early twentieth century Highlights women’s participation in movements for civil rights, workplace justice, and equal educational opportunities Explores the feminist movement and its accomplishments, the rise of anti-feminism, and women’s influence on the modern political landscape Designed for both one- and two-semester U.S. history courses, American Women's History is an ideal resource for instructors looking for a streamlined textbook that will complement existing primary sources that work well in their classes. Due to its focus on women of color, it is particularly valuable for community colleges and other institutions with diverse student populations.

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Author:   Melissa E. Blair (Auburn University) ,  Vanessa M. Holden (University of Kentucky) ,  Maeve Kane (University at Albany -- State University of New York)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781119683827

ISBN 10:   1119683823
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   10 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Brief Introduction ix Part I Maeve Kane 1 Sky Woman, Dawnland, Turtle Island 3 Studying the Past 4 Creation 5 Peopling of the Americas 7 The Spread of Maize 9 Interpreting Cahokia 11 Jigonsaseh and the Founding 13 Chaco and Pueblo 14 Near the Rocks and Seagulls 16 Conclusion 17 Bibliography 17 2 Settling and Unsettling, 1492–1600 18 Early Encounters 18 “Virgin” Landscapes 22 Gender, Slavery, and the Creation of Race 24 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 27 Conclusion 29 Bibliography 30 3 Growth and Disruption, 1600–1690 31 Creating Race 32 Race and Reproduction 34 Legislating Race 36 Good Wives and Disruptive Women 38 Gender and Social Order 41 Gender and Legal Rights 44 Conclusion 45 Bibliography 46 4 Atlantic Connections, 1690–1750 47 Gender and Warfare 48 Salem Witch Trials 50 Intermarriage and Intermediaries 52 Women and the Atlantic World of Goods 54 Conclusion 56 Bibliography 56 5 Rebellion and Revolution, 1750–1800 58 Resistance Before Revolution 59 Women’s Land and Women’s Lives 60 Gender and Liberty 61 Remember the Ladies 62 Cannons Roaring 64 The Society of Patriotic Ladies 66 A War Against Vegetables 67 Infant Liberty Nursed by Mother Mob 69 Conclusion 72 Bibliography 72 Part II Vanessa M. Holden 6 Expansion and Division: The Women’s Market Revolution, 1800–1820s 75 Maria Stewart: Women of Color, Activism, and the Rising Middle Class 76 A Land- Based Empire: Women’s Migrations 78 Migrations and the Women’s Market Economy: Feminine Ideals, Domestic Labor, and Wage Labor Opportunities 79 Making the South: Southern Women and Planter Migration 82 Making the North: European Immigration and Women’s Labor 84 The West and Far West: Imagining Empire on Indigenous Lands 85 Conclusion 85 Bibliography 86 7 Reform, Revolt, and Women’s Rights, 1830s–1860s 87 Competing Womanhoods: Middle- Class Women and Emerging Definitions of Womanhood 88 Reform and Imperial Aims: Women and “Civilizing” Missions 92 Indigenous Women Strategize for Survival: Violence and Indian Removal 94 Regions Drift Apart: Womanhood, Labor, and Regionalism 96 Class Relations and Women’s Activism: Constructing a Deserving Poor 99 Conclusion 102 Bibliography 102 8 Disunion, 1850–1860 104 The Dred Scott Decision: Women’s Intimate Lives, Marriage, and American’s Crisis over Slavery 105 From the Margins to the Center: Abolitionism and Women’s Activism in the Antebellum Period 107 The Crisis of 1850, Women in the West, and Women’s Activism 110 Conclusion 112 Bibliography 113 9 The Civil War: Women’s Homefronts and Battlefields 114 Harriet Tubman: Foot Soldier of Emancipation and War Veteran 114 1861: The Beginning 115 Bloody Realities 117 1862: A War for Emancipation 118 Escalating Casualties and Advances in Sanitation 119 1863: Battlefields and Homefronts 120 Joining the Fight: Soldiers with Female Bodies 122 1864: Women Face Hard War 123 1865: Emancipation, Lincoln’s Assassination, and Reunion 124 Conclusion 125 Bibliography 125 10 Reconstruction and the Rise of Jane Crow 127 The Emancipation Generation 128 Fighting for Freedom: An Era of Hope and Promise 129 Reform and Reconstruction: Women’s Rights and African American Civil Rights Clash 133 Creating an Old South to Build a New South: Southern Women 135 New Waves of Immigration: New Americans, Old Prejudices, and the Era of Chinese Exclusion 136 Conclusion: Freedom Dream Deferred and the Gradual Arrival of Jane Crow 139 Bibliography 140 Part III Melissa E. Blair 143 11 New Women: 1890–1920 145 African American Women’s Activism, 1890s–1920 146 Marriage, Children, and Family Life 148 Women and Work at the Turn of the Century 150 The Progressive Movement 152 The Final Path to Women’s Suffrage 155 Bibliography 158 12 Women Between the Wars, 1920–1945 160 Work, Family, and Sexuality in the 1920s 161 After Suffrage: Women’s Politics in the 1920s 164 The Great Depression 167 World War II 170 Bibliography 173 13 The Long Fifties, 1945–65 175 The Civil Rights Movement 176 Babies, Suburbs, and Politics: White Middle- Class Lives 180 Sexuality and the Cold War 183 Women and Work in an Age of Abundance 186 Bibliography 188 14 Changes Everywhere, 1965–1980 190 Feminism and Structural Change 191 Black Feminism, Chicana Feminism, and Race- Based Organizing 196 Demographics of Women’s Lives in the 1970s: Family Change and Economic Collapse 200 Women and the Rise of the New Right 201 Bibliography 203 15 Women in Contemporary America, 1980–2020 205 The Fights Continue: Gay Rights and Abortion Rights 206 Daily Life at the Turn of the Century: Work, Immigration, and Family 209 Partisan Politics and Grassroots Activism 213 Popular Culture at the Turn of the Century: Contradictory Images of Women 217 Bibliography 219 Index 221

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MELISSA E. BLAIR is an Associate Professor of History at Auburn University. She is the author of Revolutionizing Expectations: Women’s Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics 1965-1980 and Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century. VANESSA M. HOLDEN is an Associate Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of, Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community. She is also the director of the Central Kentucky Slavery Initiative through which she manages numerous public history projects. MAEVE KANE is Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany — State University of New York. Her recent published work includes Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange Across Three Centuries, as well as articles in the journal Ethnohistory, The Journal of Early American History, and a chapter in the edited collection Women and the American Revolution.

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