{"product_id":"american-womens-history-isbn-9781119683827","title":"American Women's History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers a nuanced account of the multiple aspects of women’s lives and their roles in American society\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Women's History \u003c\/i\u003epresents 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Women's History \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses how Indigenous women navigated cross-cultural contact and resisted assimilation efforts after the arrival of Europeans\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the construction of Black female bodies and the implications of the slave trade in the Americas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses the cultural shifts, demographic changes, and women’s rights movements of the early twentieth century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights women’s participation in movements for civil rights, workplace justice, and equal educational opportunities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the feminist movement and its accomplishments, the rise of anti-feminism, and women’s influence on the modern political landscape\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned for both one- and two-semester U.S. history courses, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Women's History \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrief Introduction ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaeve Kane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Sky Woman, Dawnland, Turtle Island 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudying the Past 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreation 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeopling of the Americas 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Spread of Maize 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterpreting Cahokia 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJigonsaseh and the Founding 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChaco and Pueblo 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNear the Rocks and Seagulls 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Settling and Unsettling, 1492–1600 18\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Encounters 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Virgin” Landscapes 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender, Slavery, and the Creation of Race 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSex, Gender, and Sexuality 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Growth and Disruption, 1600–1690 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating Race 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace and Reproduction 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLegislating Race 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGood Wives and Disruptive Women 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender and Social Order 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender and Legal Rights 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Atlantic Connections, 1690–1750 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender and Warfare 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSalem Witch Trials 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntermarriage and Intermediaries 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen and the Atlantic World of Goods 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Rebellion and Revolution, 1750–1800 58\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResistance Before Revolution 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen’s Land and Women’s Lives 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender and Liberty 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemember the Ladies 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCannons Roaring 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Society of Patriotic Ladies 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA War Against Vegetables 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfant Liberty Nursed by Mother Mob 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanessa M. Holden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Expansion and Division: The Women’s Market Revolution, 1800–1820s 75\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaria Stewart: Women of Color, Activism, and the Rising Middle Class 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Land- Based Empire: Women’s Migrations 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigrations and the Women’s Market Economy: Feminine Ideals, Domestic Labor, and Wage Labor Opportunities 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking the South: Southern Women and Planter Migration 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking the North: European Immigration and Women’s Labor 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe West and Far West: Imagining Empire on Indigenous Lands 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Reform, Revolt, and Women’s Rights, 1830s–1860s 87\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompeting Womanhoods: Middle- Class Women and Emerging Definitions of Womanhood 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReform and Imperial Aims: Women and “Civilizing” Missions 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndigenous Women Strategize for Survival: Violence and Indian Removal 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegions Drift Apart: Womanhood, Labor, and Regionalism 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClass Relations and Women’s Activism: Constructing a Deserving Poor 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Disunion, 1850–1860 104\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dred Scott Decision: Women’s Intimate Lives, Marriage, and American’s Crisis over Slavery 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Margins to the Center: Abolitionism and Women’s Activism in the Antebellum Period 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crisis of 1850, Women in the West, and Women’s Activism 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 The Civil War: Women’s Homefronts and Battlefields 114\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarriet Tubman: Foot Soldier of Emancipation and War Veteran 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1861: The Beginning 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBloody Realities 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1862: A War for Emancipation 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEscalating Casualties and Advances in Sanitation 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1863: Battlefields and Homefronts 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoining the Fight: Soldiers with Female Bodies 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1864: Women Face Hard War 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1865: Emancipation, Lincoln’s Assassination, and Reunion 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Reconstruction and the Rise of Jane Crow 127\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emancipation Generation 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFighting for Freedom: An Era of Hope and Promise 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReform and Reconstruction: Women’s Rights and African American Civil Rights Clash 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating an Old South to Build a New South: Southern Women 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Waves of Immigration: New Americans, Old Prejudices, and the Era of Chinese Exclusion 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Freedom Dream Deferred and the Gradual Arrival of Jane Crow 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelissa E. Blair 143\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 New Women: 1890–1920 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican American Women’s Activism, 1890s–1920 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarriage, Children, and Family Life 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen and Work at the Turn of the Century 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Progressive Movement 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Final Path to Women’s Suffrage 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Women Between the Wars, 1920–1945 160\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWork, Family, and Sexuality in the 1920s 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter Suffrage: Women’s Politics in the 1920s 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Depression 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorld War II 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 The Long Fifties, 1945–65 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Civil Rights Movement 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBabies, Suburbs, and Politics: White Middle- Class Lives 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexuality and the Cold War 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen and Work in an Age of Abundance 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Changes Everywhere, 1965–1980 190\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminism and Structural Change 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack Feminism, Chicana Feminism, and Race- Based Organizing 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemographics of Women’s Lives in the 1970s: Family Change and Economic Collapse 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen and the Rise of the New Right 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Women in Contemporary America, 1980–2020 205\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fights Continue: Gay Rights and Abortion Rights 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDaily Life at the Turn of the Century: Work, Immigration, and Family 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePartisan Politics and Grassroots Activism 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopular Culture at the Turn of the Century: Contradictory Images of Women 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 221\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMELISSA E. BLAIR\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of History at Auburn University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRevolutionizing Expectations: Women’s Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics 1965-1980\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVANESSA M. HOLDEN\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of, \u003ci\u003eSurviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the director of the Central Kentucky Slavery Initiative through which she manages numerous public history projects. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAEVE KANE\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany — State University of New York. Her recent published work includes \u003ci\u003eShirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange Across Three Centuries\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as articles in the journal \u003ci\u003eEthnohistory, The Journal of Early American History\u003c\/i\u003e, and a chapter in the edited collection \u003ci\u003eWomen and the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Women’s History\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive survey of women’s experience in the United States 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 complex perspective on the conventional narrative of American women’s history. Throughout the text, the authors highlight the stories of important women in American history including Matoaka (Pocahontas), Hilletie van Olinda, Margaret Sanger, and Annelle Ponder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Women’s History\u003c\/i\u003e explores the major turning points in American women’s history while investigating 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, and the activism of women before and after suffrage was won.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned for both one- and two-semester U.S. history courses, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Women’s History\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal resource for instructors looking for a streamlined textbook that will complement primary sources and will invite engagement and reflection for students.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988720795877,"sku":"NP9781119683827","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119683827.jpg?v=1761781327","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/american-womens-history-isbn-9781119683827","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}