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  • The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
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  • Edited by S. Jay Kleinberg, Eileen Boris, and Vicki L. Ruiz
  • 2007
  • Published by: Rutgers University Press
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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. They have 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. They examine, for example, how conceptions of gender shaped immigration 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. Reading the past with all of the messiness, contradictions, and excitement inherent in real life, this book is a provocative meditation on the state of the field.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. CONTENTS
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  1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
  2. pp. 1-11
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  1. 1. Where the Girls Aren’t: Women as Reluctant Migrants but Rational Actors in Early America
  2. pp. 12-29
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  1. 2. “Your Women Are of No Small Consequence”: Native American Women, Gender, and Early American History
  2. pp. 30-49
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  1. 3. From Daughters of Liberty to Women of the Republic: American Women in the Era of the American Revolution
  2. pp. 50-66
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  1. 4. Southern Women of Color and the American Revolution,1775–1783
  2. pp. 67-82
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  1. 5. From Dawn to Dusk :Women’s Work in the Antebellum Era
  2. pp. 83-105
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  1. 6. To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds: Women and the American Civil War
  2. pp. 106-125
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  1. 7. Turner’s Ghost: A Personal Retrospective on Western Women’s History
  2. pp. 126-145
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  1. 8. Gender and U.S. Imperialismin U.S. Women’s History
  2. pp. 146-160
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  1. 9. Chinese American Womenin U.S. History: Explaining Representations of Exotic Others,Passive Objects, and Active Subjects
  2. pp. 161-184
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  1. 10. Migrations and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women
  2. pp. 185-200
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  1. 11. African American Women and Migration
  2. pp. 201-220
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  1. 12. Morena/o, Blanca/o, y Caf
  2. pp. 221-237
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  1. 13. The Woman Suffrage Movement,1848–1920
  2. pp. 238-257
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  1. 14. Engendering Social Welfare Policy
  2. pp. 258-279
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  1. 15. Interrupting Norms and Constructing Deviances: Competing Frameworks in the Histories of Sexualities in the United States
  2. pp. 280-307
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  1. 16. Strong People and Strong Leaders: African American Women and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle
  2. pp. 308-328
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  1. 17. A New Century of Struggle: Feminism and Antifeminism in the United States, 1920–Present
  2. pp. 329-346
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  1. CONTRIBUTORS
  2. pp. 347-352
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 353-370
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