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

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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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