American Women: A Concise History by Susan Ware, ISBN-13: 978-0197522349

American Women: A Concise History by Susan Ware, ISBN-13: 978-0197522349

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• Publisher: ‎ Oxford University Press (July 30, 2021)
• Language: ‎ English
• 288 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0197522343
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0197522349

Susan Ware’s concise and lively American Women presents “women as a force in history.” Paying homage to historian Mary Ritter Beard’s pathbreaking scholarship from the 1930s and 1940s, this conceptual framework highlights the contributions, recognized and unrecognized, that women have made to the American experience. Without downplaying the historical constraints and barriers blocking women’s advancement, Ware’s narrative emphasizes women as active agents rather than passive victims in a variety of contexts throughout U.S. history.

The goal of American Women is to give the reader familiarity with the main currents and themes of American history through engagement with the specific history of its women. This dual focus is necessary because it is impossible to write about women in isolation from men or unaffected by broader events and trends. And yet women’s stories link to larger themes at the same time they often challenge them. With women’s stories fully integrated into the broader national story, the end result is a richer understanding of American history in all its complexity, including its transnational and global dimensions.

Table of Contents:

Cover Page
About the Cover
Title page
Copyright page
List of Maps and Figures
Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter one In the Beginning: North America’s Women to 1750
Origin Stories
Gender Frontiers
Gender And Race in the Early Settlements
The Daily Contours of Women’s Lives
Transatlantic Connections
Timeline
Suggested Readings
List of Key Terms
Chapter two Independence Gained and Lost in an Expanding Republic, 1750–1850
Revolutionary Legacies
Populating a Continent that was Already Populated
The Broad Shadow of Slavery
Timeline
Suggested Readings
List of Key Terms
Chapter three Freedom’s Ferment, 1830–1865
The Lady and the Mill Girl
The Female World of Benevolence and Reform
The Intertwined Origins of Abolition and Women’s Rights
Women’s Civil Wars
Timeline
Suggested Readings
List of Key Terms
Chapter four Reconstruction and Beyond, 1865–1890
Reconstructing a Fractured Nation
The Multicultural West
The Women’s West
Broader Educational Opportunities for Women
Claiming Citizenship
Timeline
Suggested Readings
List of Key Terms
Chapter five Expanding Horizons, 1890–1920
Working Women
Modern Women in the Making
Progressive Era Reform
The Final Push for Suffrage
Timeline
Suggested Readings
List of Key Terms
Chapter six Modern American Women, 1920–1960
New Dilemmas for Modern Women
Making do in the Great Depression
A World at War
The 1950s: The Way we Were?
Timeline
Suggested Readings
List of Key Terms
Chapter seven Feminism and Its Discontents, 1960–1992
The Revival of Feminism
Not so Fast, Sisters
Legislative Landmarks
A Shift to the Right
Timeline
Suggested Readings
List of Key Terms
Chapter eight Our Bodies, Our Politics, 1992–2020
“The Year of the Woman” Just Keeps Happening
Women in the Military
The Changing Terrain of Sex and Gender
Changing American Families
Jobs and Justice
2020: A Moment of Reckoning
Timeline
Suggested Readings
List of Key Terms
Appendix Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Glossary
Credits
Index
List of Illustrations

Susan Ware is the author and editor of numerous books on twentieth-century U.S. history and biography. Educated at Wellesley College and Harvard University, she has taught at New York University and Harvard.

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