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Women, Families and Communities, Volume 1, Second Edition
Nancy Hewitt and Kirsten Delegard
Employing a case study approach, this women's history reader explores the connections between the private and personal experiences of American women and the political, economic, intellectual, and social factors that helped shape their lives. The second edition of this popular reader has been thoroughly and completely revised to meet the needs of modern classrooms. It may be used as the main text in courses on women’s history, as well as a supplementary text for any U.S. history survey course.
Volume One covers material from the New World to the Civil War and Reconstruction and explores the following themes: the conquest of land and peoples and the impact on women and families; the effects of war on the daily lives of women and communities; the dynamic relations between family, labor and the market economy; women’s activism and political change; sexual violence and women’s agency; and the interplay of race, class and gender in the lives of women and their families and communities.
Second Edition Features:
- A new introduction before each section places the articles within a chronological framework while the head-note for each article identifies the context and theme of the selection.
- Questions following each article promote critical thinking and help students relate the topic of the reading to the major issues of the historical period.
- Suggested Readings at the close of each part serve as a rich resource for instructors and students interested in further study.
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Synopsis
Each article is accompanied by illustrations, as well as a list of readings and Web sites for further research. The individual volumes surround distinct and significant themes: conquest of land and peoples and the impact on women and families; the affects of war on the daily lives of women and communities; the dynamic relations between family, labor and the market economy; women's activism and political change; sexual violence and women's agency; and the interplay of race, class and gender in the lives of women and their families and communities. These threads allow students and teachers to build on earlier readings and discussions as they move through the semester.
Each article is accompanied by illustrations, as well as a list of readings and Web sites for further research. The individual volumes surround distinct and significant themes: conquest of land and peoples and the impact on women and families; the affects of war on the daily lives of women and communities; the dynamic relations between family, labor and the market economy; women's activism and political change; sexual violence and women's agency; and the interplay of race, class and gender in the lives of women and their families and communities. These threads allow students and teachers to build on earlier readings and discussions as they move through the semester. "Women's history, ""Slavery, family, labor, women's activism, political change, sexual violence and women's agency, race, class and gender." "US Survey, Women's History Survey"
Synopsis
Approaching women's history through case studies, this reader explores the connections between the private, personal experiences of American women, and the larger political, economic, intellectual, and social factors that shaped their lives. Suitable as a main text for women's history courses, or as the perfect supplement to any U.S. history survey course, the articles in each volume address a broad spectrum of families and communities, including various racial, ethnic and class groups in different regions of the country.
Synopsis
This package contains the following components:
-0321414861: Women, Families and Communities, Volume 2
-032141487X: Women, Families and Communities, Volume 1
Table of Contents
PART ONE: New World Orders 1) Camilla Townsend, “Jamestown” 2) Jennifer Morgan “Slavery and the Slave Trade
3) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Ways of the Household”
PART TWO: Negotiating Sex and Gender in the 18th Century
4) Cornelia Hughes Dayton, “Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village”
5) Allan Kulikoff, “A Man’s World: Family Life in the Chesapeake”
6) Antonia Castaneda, “Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest:
Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California”
PART THREE: The Revolution and Early Republic
7) Carol Berkin, “The day of jubilee is come”
8) Marla Miller, “Eggs on the Sand: Domestic Servants and their Children in Federal New England”
9) Paul Johnson, “The Modernization of Greenleaf and Abigail Patch: Land, Family and Marginality in the New Republic”
PART FOUR: The Antebellum Era
10) Anne Boylan, “Women and Politics in the Era before Seneca Falls”
11) Theda Perdue, “Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears”
12) Stephanie Camp, “I Could Not Stay There”: Enslaved Women, Truancy and the Geography of Everyday Forms of Resistance in the Antebellum Plantation South”
13) Albert Hurtado, “Sex, Gender, Culture and a Great Event: The California Gold Rush”
PART FIVE: Civil War and the Reconstruction of Race and Gender Relations
14) Drew Faust, “Doing a Man’s Business”
15) Jean Fagan Yellin, “Marching Without a Lance”
16) Leslie Dunlap, “The reform of rape law and the problem of white men: age-of-consent campaigns in the South, 1885-1910”