Practice of U.S. Women's History

S. Jay Kleinberg is director of the Centre for American, Transatlantic, and Caribbean History at Brunel University, London, England, where she is a professor of history.Eileen Boris holds the Hull Chair and is chair of the women’s studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Vicki L. Ruiz is a professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies and interim dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues by S. Jay Kleinberg, Eileen Boris, and Vicki L. Ruiz1. Where the Girls Aren't: Women as Reluctant Migrants but Rational Actors in Early America by Trevor G. Burnard and Ann M. Little2. "Your Women Are of No Small Consequence": Native American Women, Gender, and Early American History by Gail D. Macleitch3. From Daughters of Liberty to Women of the Republic: American Women in the Era of the American Revolution by Susan Branson4. Southern Women of Color and the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by Betty Wood5. From Dawn to Dusk: Women's Work in the Antebellum Era by Inge Dornan and S. Jay Kleinberg6. To Bind Up the Nationa's Wounds: Women and the American Civil War by Susan Mary Grant7. Turner's Ghost: A Personal Retrospective on Western Women's History by Susan Armitage8. Gender and U.S. Imperialism in U.S. Women's History by Laura Briggs9. Chinese American Women in U.S. History: Explaining Representatives of Exotic Others, Passive Objects, and Active Subjects by Shirley Hune10. Migrations and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women by Donna R. Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz11. African American Women Migration by Leslie Brown12. Morena/o, Blanca/o, y Cafe con Leche: Racial Constructions in Chicana/o Historiography by Vicki L. Ruiz13. The Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 by Elizabeth J. Clapp14. Engendering Social Welfare Policy by Eileen Boris and S. Jay Kleinberg15. Interrupting Norms and Constructing Deviances: Competing Frameworks in the Histories of Sexualities in the United States by Leisa D. Meyer16. Strong People and Strong Leaders: African American Women and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle by Mary Ellen Curtin17. A New Centruy of Struggle: Feminism and Antifeminism in the United States, 1920-Present by Kristin CelelloContributorsIndex