A Companion to American Women's History [Paperback]

• Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism.
  
• Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.
  
• Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

About the Contributors ix

Introduction xii

PART I THE COLONIAL ERA, 1600-1760 1

1 The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes 3
Kirsten Fischer

2 Slavery and the Slave Trade 20
Jennifer L. Morgan

3 Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America 35
Gwenn A. Miller

4 Building Colonies, Defining Families 49
Ann M. Little

5 Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America 66
Susan Juster

PART II THE CREATION OF A NEW NATION, 1760-1880 81

6 A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution 83
Jem E. Lewis

7 Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North 100
Catherine Kelly

8 Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era 117
Nancy A. Hewitt

9 Conflicts and Cultures in the West 132
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