{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-womens-history-9781119522638","title":"A Companion to American Women's History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most important collection of essays on American Women's History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women's history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It assesses the past thirty years of scholarship, capturing the ways that women's historians confront issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This second edition updates essays related to Indigenous women, slavery, the American Revolution, Civil War, the West, activism, labor, popular culture, civil rights, and feminism. It also includes a discussion of laws, capitalism, gender identity and transgender experience, welfare, reproductive politics, oral history, as well as an exploration of the perspectives of free Blacks and migrants and refugees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanning from the 15th through the 21st centuries, chapters show how historians of women, gender, and sexuality have challenged established chronologies and advanced new understandings of America's political, economic, intellectual and social history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis edition also features a new essay on the history of women's suffrage to coincide with the 100th anniversary of passage of the 19th Amendment, as well as a new article that carries issues of women, gender and sexuality into the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes twenty-three original essays by leading scholars in American women's, gender and sexuality history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights the most recent scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSubstantially updates the first edition with new authors and topics that represent the expanding fields of women, gender, and sexuality\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEngages issues of race, ethnicity, region, and class as they shape and are shaped by women's and gender history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers the breadth of American Women's history, including Native women, colonial law and religion, slavery and freedom, women's activism, work and welfare, culture and capitalism, the state, feminism, digital and oral history, and more\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Women's History\u003c\/i\u003e, Second Edition is an ideal book for advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying American\/U.S. women's history, history of gender and sexuality, and African American women's history. It will also appeal to scholars of these areas at all levels, as well as public historians working in museums, archives, and historic sites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy A. Hewitt\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of several books and edited collections, including \u003ci\u003eSouthern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRadical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also co-author of \u003ci\u003eExploring American Histories: A Survey with Sources\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne M. Valk\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, is Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center and Executive Director of the American Social History Project\/Center for Media and Learning. She wrote the award-winning, \u003ci\u003eRadical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/i\u003e and co-authored \u003ci\u003eLiving with Jim Crow: African Americans and Memories of the Segregated South\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also co-editor of \u003ci\u003eU.S. Women's History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50859490410770,"sku":"9781119522638","price":148.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_540a5da4-f842-4162-8a18-e80e09ed3631.jpg?v=1737558495","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-companion-to-american-womens-history-9781119522638","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}