In this Book
- The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. vii-viii
- 11. African American Women and Migration
- pp. 201-220
- 12. Morena/o, Blanca/o, y Caf
- pp. 221-237
- 13. The Woman Suffrage Movement,1848–1920
- pp. 238-257
- 14. Engendering Social Welfare Policy
- pp. 258-279
- CONTRIBUTORS
- pp. 347-352
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813543987
Related ISBN(s)
9780813541808
MARC Record
OCLC
232607971
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No