Practice of U.S. Women's History

Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

AvS. Jay Kleinberg,Vicki Ruiz,Eileen Boris

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In the last several decades, U.S. women’s history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women’s history itself.In this collection of seventeen original essays on women’s lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how conceptions of gender shaped government officials’ attitudes towards East Asian immigrants; how race and gender inequality pervaded the welfare state; and how color and class shaped Mexican American women’s mobilization for civil and labor rights.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-11-27
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813541815

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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