American Women's History

ISBN-13: 9781119683827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 360 str.

Maeve Kane

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Brief Introduction ixPart IMaeve Kane1 Sky Woman, Dawnland, Turtle Island 3Studying the Past 4Creation 5Peopling of the Americas 7The Spread of Maize 9Interpreting Cahokia 11Jigonsaseh and the Founding 13Chaco and Pueblo 14Near the Rocks and Seagulls 16Conclusion 17Bibliography 172 Settling and Unsettling, 1492-1600 18Early Encounters 18"Virgin" Landscapes 22Gender, Slavery, and the Creation of Race 24Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 27Conclusion 29Bibliography 303 Growth and Disruption, 1600-1690 31Creating Race 32Race and Reproduction 34Legislating Race 36Good Wives and Disruptive Women 38Gender and Social Order 41Gender and Legal Rights 44Conclusion 45Bibliography 464 Atlantic Connections, 1690-1750 47Gender and Warfare 48Salem Witch Trials 50Intermarriage and Intermediaries 52Women and the Atlantic World of Goods 54Conclusion 56Bibliography 565 Rebellion and Revolution, 1750-1800 58Resistance Before Revolution 59Women's Land and Women's Lives 60Gender and Liberty 61Remember the Ladies 62Cannons Roaring 64The Society of Patriotic Ladies 66A War Against Vegetables 67Infant Liberty Nursed by Mother Mob 69Conclusion 72Bibliography 72Part IIVanessa M. Holden6 Expansion and Division: The Women's Market Revolution, 1800-1820s 75Maria Stewart: Women of Color, Activism, and the Rising Middle Class 76A Land- Based Empire: Women's Migrations 78Migrations and the Women's Market Economy: Feminine Ideals, Domestic Labor, and Wage Labor Opportunities 79Making the South: Southern Women and Planter Migration 82Making the North: European Immigration and Women's Labor 84The West and Far West: Imagining Empire on Indigenous Lands 85Conclusion 85Bibliography 867 Reform, Revolt, and Women's Rights, 1830s-1860s 87Competing Womanhoods: Middle- Class Women and Emerging Definitions of Womanhood 88Reform and Imperial Aims: Women and "Civilizing" Missions 92Indigenous Women Strategize for Survival: Violence and Indian Removal 94Regions Drift Apart: Womanhood, Labor, and Regionalism 96Class Relations and Women's Activism: Constructing a Deserving Poor 99Conclusion 102Bibliography 1028 Disunion, 1850-1860 104The Dred Scott Decision: Women's Intimate Lives, Marriage, and American's Crisis over Slavery 105From the Margins to the Center: Abolitionism and Women's Activism in the Antebellum Period 107The Crisis of 1850, Women in the West, and Women's Activism 110Conclusion 112Bibliography 1139 The Civil War: Women's Homefronts and Battlefields 114Harriet Tubman: Foot Soldier of Emancipation and War Veteran 1141861: The Beginning 115Bloody Realities 1171862: A War for Emancipation 118Escalating Casualties and Advances in Sanitation 1191863: Battlefields and Homefronts 120Joining the Fight: Soldiers with Female Bodies 1221864: Women Face Hard War 1231865: Emancipation, Lincoln's Assassination, and Reunion 124Conclusion 125Bibliography 12510 Reconstruction and the Rise of Jane Crow 127The Emancipation Generation 128Fighting for Freedom: An Era of Hope and Promise 129Reform and Reconstruction: Women's Rights and African American Civil Rights Clash 133Creating an Old South to Build a New South: Southern Women 135New Waves of Immigration: New Americans, Old Prejudices, and the Era of Chinese Exclusion 136Conclusion: Freedom Dream Deferred and the Gradual Arrival of Jane Crow 139Bibliography 140Part IIIMelissa E. Blair 14311 New Women: 1890-1920 145African American Women's Activism, 1890s-1920 146Marriage, Children, and Family Life 148Women and Work at the Turn of the Century 150The Progressive Movement 152The Final Path to Women's Suffrage 155Bibliography 15812 Women Between the Wars, 1920-1945 160Work, Family, and Sexuality in the 1920s 161After Suffrage: Women's Politics in the 1920s 164The Great Depression 167World War II 170Bibliography 17313 The Long Fifties, 1945-65 175The Civil Rights Movement 176Babies, Suburbs, and Politics: White Middle- Class Lives 180Sexuality and the Cold War 183Women and Work in an Age of Abundance 186Bibliography 18814 Changes Everywhere, 1965-1980 190Feminism and Structural Change 191Black Feminism, Chicana Feminism, and Race- Based Organizing 196Demographics of Women's Lives in the 1970s: Family Change and Economic Collapse 200Women and the Rise of the New Right 201Bibliography 20315 Women in Contemporary America, 1980-2020 205The Fights Continue: Gay Rights and Abortion Rights 206Daily Life at the Turn of the Century: Work, Immigration, and Family 209Partisan Politics and Grassroots Activism 213Popular Culture at the Turn of the Century: Contradictory Images of Women 217Bibliography 219Index 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.