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A Companion to American Women's History (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field.

• Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism.
• Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.
• Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 20.03MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Nancy A. Hewitt is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change (1984) and Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (2001), Women's Activism and Social Change (2001), the editor of Women, Families, and Communities (1990), and co-editor of Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (1993), and Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (1996).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470998588
• Artikelnr.: 38186065

Rezensionen

"Hewitt has collected introductory yet well rounded essays thatprovide a diversity of scholarly interpretations of Americanwomen's history. Each contributor thoroughly synopsizes germaneworks while incorporating issues such as race, class, and religion.Highly recommended as an introductory examination of Americanwomen's history." Choice

"It is impossible to overstate the value of NancyHewitt's Companion to American Women's History. Itguides us, with tremendous authority, into the vast world ofAmerican women's history, as it has developed and as itstands at the beginning of the 21st century. But it is also apowerful intervention. Cutting across conventional categories anddivisions, it recasts the field, raising provocative new questions,suggesting new approaches, and opening fresh paths to the future. Ican't imagine teaching or writing women's history inthe future without this Companion by my side." JacquelynHall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"The original essays in this volume, based onbroad-ranging historiography, will be useful and provocative toboth the beginning student and the seasoned scholar."Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University