A Companion to American Women's History.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- REFERENCES -- Chapter One: Native Women in the Americas to 1800 -- On Paradigm Shifts -- Native Women's Evolving Histories -- Uncomfortable Musings -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Two: Slavery and the Slave Trade -- The Slave Trade -- The Parameters of the Trans‐Atlantic Slave Trade -- Women's Lives in West Africa -- African Women in the Americas -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Three: Intersectional Studies of Early American Women and Christianity -- Puritan Women: Disproving Declension and Marking Whiteness -- Evangelicalism, Secularization, and Feminization -- Biography as a Path to Intersectionality -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Four: Women and the Law in Early America -- Women and the Law in Slavery and Freedom -- Regulating Sexuality and Gender -- Women as Agents of Property -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Five: Women and the Long American Revolution -- The Revolution's Early Stages -- Late British Empire -- The Revolutionary War -- The Postwar World -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Six: Intimate Economies, 1790-1860 -- Women's History has Always Been Economic History -- Accounting for Intimate Labor -- Gender in New Histories of Capitalism -- The Future of Intimate Labor's Past -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Seven: The Future Looks Bright: Black Women, Slavery, and Freedom, 1780-1865 -- Bodies of Pain, Bodies of Pleasure: A New Turn -- In Search of Citizenship -- The Turn to Interiority -- Studies in Black Women's Biography -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Eight: Race, Class, Region, and Activism, 1820s-1870s -- Chronologies and Geographies -- Race, Class, and Religion -- Activist Families and Communities -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Nine: Conflicts and Cultures in the Colonial and Nineteenth‐Century West -- Indigenous Histories.

The Gendered Politics of Conquest -- Settler Colonialism and Gender Dynamics -- Migration, Immigration, and the Border -- Race, Law, and Injustice -- Changing Dynamics in Western Women's History -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Ten: Women in the Civil War Era -- The Secession Crisis -- War and the Confederacy -- The Union Home Front -- Women on the Battlefront -- Postwar Worlds -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Eleven: Gender and Social Movements from Reconstruction to the New Deal -- The Roots of Relational History -- Redefining Activists and Activism -- Lenses of Relation -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Twelve: Woman Suffrage, Women's Votes -- Origin Stories -- Post‐Civil War Triumphs and Travails -- Suffragist Regrouping -- More Work to Be Done -- Looking Ahead -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Thirteen: Recovering a Gender‐Transgressive Past: A Transgender Historiography -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Fourteen: Popular Cultures -- Standardization and Self‐Expression -- Centering Diversity -- Hollywood's Historical Contexts -- New Channels -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Fifteen: Working Women, "Welfare Moms," and Struggles for Subsistence in the Twentieth Century -- A Short Version of the Long Emergence of Histories of Women, Work, and Welfare -- Organizing, Consuming, and Recreating -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Sixteen: Capitalism in the Twentieth and Twenty‐First Centuries -- Reproductive Labor -- Consumer Economy -- Informal Economies -- Economic Justice -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Seventeen: Women, Gender, and the State, ca. 1900-2010 -- Sources of Scholarship on Women and the State -- The Welfare State -- Labor and the State -- Marriage, Family, and the State -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Eighteen: Sterilization, Birth Control, and Abortion: Reproductive Politics from 1945 to the Present -- Eugenics and Population Control -- Resistance to Population Control -- Reproductive Justice.

Birth Control -- Abortion -- The Anti‐abortion Movement and Fetal Personhood -- Women's Health Movement -- Assisted Reproductive Technologies -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Nineteen: Global Women: Migrants and Refugees, 1850s-2000 -- US Empire‐Building and Women Migrants -- Migrant Women as Family Members and Workers -- Transnational and Global Approaches -- Gendered Gatekeeping: Immigration and Citizenship Policies -- Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Women and Children -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Twenty: Civil Rights and Black Liberation -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Twenty‐One: Rethinking Feminist Movements After World War II -- Feminist Foundations -- Feminisms, Plural -- Cultural Production and Reproduction -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Twenty‐Two: Oral History and Testimony in Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality -- Defining Feminist Oral History -- Oral History and Historical Interpretation: Civil Rights and Women's Movements -- Oral History and Historical Interpretation: Queer History and LGBTQ Movements -- Breaking Silences and Listening for Voices on the Margins -- The Potential of Feminist and Queer Oral History to Reshape Twentieth‐Century US History -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Twenty‐Three: Digital Demands Toward Decolonial Feminist Futures -- Hoodies and Hijabs -- Trump, #MeToo, and the Women's March -- Abolition Feminism and Decolonial Feminist Futures -- Documenting Our Movements -- REFERENCES -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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