The practice of U.S. women's history : narratives, intersections, and dialogues / edited by S. Jay Kleinberg, Eileen Boris, Vicki L. Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kleinberg, S. J.

Boris, Eileen, 1948-

Ruíz, Vicki.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how conceptions of gender shaped government officials' attitudes towards East Asian immigrants; how race and gender inequality pervaded the welfare state; and how color and class shaped Mexican American women's mobilization for civil and labor rights.

Contents:

Where the girls aren't : women as reluctant migrants but rational actors in early America / Trevor G. Burnard and Ann M. Little

"Your women are of no small consequence" : Native American women, gender, and early American history / Gail D. Macleitch

From daughters of liberty to women of the republic : American women in the era of the American Revolution / Susan Branson

Southern women of color and the American Revolution, 1775-1783 / Betty Wood

From dawn to dusk : women's work in the Antebellum Era / Inge Dornan and Jay Kleinberg

To bind up the nation's wounds : women and the American Civil War / Susan-Mary Grant

Turner's ghost : a personal retrospective on western women's history / Susan Armitage

Gender and U.S. imperialism in U.S. women's history / Laura Briggs

Chinese American women in U.S. history : explaining representations of exotic others, passive objects, and active subjects / Shirley Hune

Migrations and destinations : reflections on the histories of U.S. immigrant women in the United States / Donna Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz

African American women and migration / Leslie Brown

Morena/o, blanca/o, y cafe con leche : racial constructions in Chicana/o historiography / Vicki L. Ruiz

The woman suffrage movement, 1848-1920 / Elizabeth J. Clapp

Engendering social welfare policy / Eileen Boris and Jay Kleinberg

Interrupting norms and constructing deviances : competing frameworks in the histories of sexualities in the United States / Leisa D. Meyer

Strong people and strong leaders : African American women and the modern Black freedom struggle / Mary Ellen Curtin

A new century of struggle : feminism and anti-feminism in the United States, 1920-present / Kristin Celello.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-31653-9

9786611316532

0-8135-4398-3

OCLC:

476156734