A Concise Women's History

Explores the history of women and gender in the U.S.

A Concise Women’s History, 1/e, explores the dynamics of power in the U.S., between women and men and among women themselves. This history spans from the first cultural contact between indigenous peoples and Europeans in the 15^th century to the new globalism of the 21^st century.

Because it recognizes diversity as a central factor in the history of women and gender, this title explores the lives of a broad spectrum of women. Chapters explore how relationships among women were determined by differences of race, ethnicity, class, age, region, or religion.

Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor and Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University, specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left, second edition (1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (1991–1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Teresa Murphy is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. Born and raised in California, she received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD from Yale University. She is the author of Ten Hours Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England (1992) and is currently completing a study about the origins of women’s history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is the former Associate Editor of American Quarterly.

Jane F. Gerhard is a visiting assistant professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, specializing in American women’s history and the history of sexuality in America. She received her B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. from Brown University. She is the author of Desiring Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 (2001).

In This Section:

I)  Brief Table of Contents

II) Detailed Table of Contents

I) Brief Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Worlds Apart, to 1700

Chapter 2. Contact and Conquest, 1500-1700

Chapter 3. Eighteenth-Century Revolutions, 1700 — 1800

Chapter 4. Frontiers Of Trade And Empire, 1750 — 1860

Chapter 5. Domestic Economies And Northern Lives, 1800 — 1860

Chapter 6. Family Business: Slavery And Patriarchy, 1800 — 1860

Chapter 7. Religion And Reform, 1800 — 1860

Chapter 8. Politics And Power: The Movement For Woman’s Rights, 1800 —

Chapter 9.  The Civil War, 1861 — 1865

Chapter 10. In The Age Of Slave Emancipation, 1865-1877

Chapter 11. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860 — 1900

Chapter 12. New Women, 1857 — 1915

Chapter 13. The Woman Movement, 1860 - 1900

Chapter 14. The New Morality, 1880 — 1920

Chapter 15. The Progressive Era, 1890 — 1920

Chapter 16. The Jazz Age, 1920 — 1930

Chapter 17. The Great Depression, 1930 — 1940

Chapter 18. World War Ii Home Fronts, 1940 — 1945

Chapter 19. The Feminine Mystique, 1945 — 1965

Chapter 20. Civil Rights And Liberal Activism, 1945 — 1975

Chapter 21. The Personal Is Political, 1960 — 1980

Chapter 22. Endings And Beginnngs, 1980 — 2011

II) Detailed Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Worlds Apart, to 1700

Women in The Americas

European Women

African Women

The Gendered Dynamics of Contact

Conclusion

Chapter 2. Contact and Conquest, 1500-1700

Spanish Conquest in the Southwest

Trading Ventures in the North

Plantation Societies of the Southeast

Godly Societies of New England

Conclusion

Chapter 3.  Eighteenth-Century Revolutions, 1700 — 1800

The Market Revolution

Family Relations and Social Responsibilities

Declaring Independence

A Virtuous Republic

Conclusion

Chapter 4. Frontiers Of Trade And Empire, 1750 — 1860

Indian Country

Slavery and Freedom in Louisiana

Western Frontiers

Conclusion

Chapter 5. Domestic Economies And Northern Lives, 1800 — 1860

Industrial Transformations

Town and Country

Private Lives: Defining the Middle Class

Multiple Identities: Race, Ethnicity, and the Female Experience

The Culture of Sentiment

Conclusion

Chapter 6. Family Business: Slavery And Patriarchy, 1800 — 1860

Antebellum Slavery

Plantation Households

Struggles for Independence

Representing the South

Conclusion

Chapter 7. Religion And Reform, 1800 — 1860

Revivals and Religious Virtue

Religion and Family Authority

Controlling the Body, Perfecting the Soul

Contesting the Nation: Social and Political Reforms

Conclusion

Chapter 8. Politics And Power: The Movement For Woman’s Rights, 1800 — 1860

Life, Liberty, and Property

Women’s Influence versus Woman’s Rights

Forging a Movement

Conclusion

Chapter 9.  The Civil War, 1861 — 1865

The Northern Home Front

On the Battlefields

Plantation Society in Turmoil

A Woman’s War

Conclusion

Chapter 10. In The Age Of Slave Emancipation, 1865-1877

Reconstructing Southern Households

Woman’s Rights Reemerge

Woman’s Right to Labor

The Woman’s Crusade

Conclusion

Chapter 11. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860 — 1900

On the Range and in Mining Communities

Mormon Settlements

Spanish-Speaking Women of the Southwest

Building Communities in the Heartland

Indian Women, Conquest, and Survival

Conclusion

Chapter 12.   New Women, 1857 — 1915

New Industries, New Jobs

New Immigrants

The New South

New Professions

The New Woman at Home

Conclusion

Chapter 13.   The Woman Movement, 1860 - 1900

Cross-Class Alliances

Spanning the Nation

Campaigns of the 1890s

Woman’s Empire

Conclusion

Chapter 14.   The New Morality, 1880 — 1920

Urban Pleasures, Urban Dangers

Changing Relations of Intimacy

Curbing “Social Evils”

Women’s Bodies and Reproduction

Rebels in Bohemia

Conclusion

Chapter 15.   The Progressive Era, 1890 — 1920

“Municipal Housekeeping”

The Era of Women’s Strikes

 “Mother-Work”

World War I

Votes For Women

Conclusion

Chapter 16.   The Jazz Age, 1920 — 1930

“Revolution in Manners and Morals”

Women and Work

Beyond Suffrage

Women’s Activism

The Culture of Modernity

Conclusion

Chapter 17.   The Great Depression, 1930 — 1940

Facing the Depression

Activism

Women and the New Deal

Cultures of the 1930s

Conclusion

Chapter 18.   World War Ii Home Fronts, 1940 — 1945

Women at Work on the Home Front

Gender and Wartime Popular Culture

Wartime Domesticity

Creating a Woman’s Army

Conclusion

Chapter 19.   The Feminine Mystique, 1945 — 1965

Beyond Domesticity

Cold War Mothering

Remaking the American Home

The Heterosexual Imperative

Sexual Dangers

Conclusion

Chapter 20. Civil Rights And Liberal Activism, 1945 — 1975

The Civil Rights Movement

A Movement Takes Shape

Agenda for Reform

Conclusion

Chapter 21.   The Personal Is Political, 1960 — 1980

Sexual Revolutions

Women’s Liberation

Personal Politics

Family Life, One Day at a Time

Conclusion

Chapter 22.   Endings And Beginnngs, 1980 — 2011

The New Right

Work and Family in the 1990s

Global America

Conclusion

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.