Companion to American Women's History

Nancy A. Hewitt, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of several books and edited collections, including Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s, Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds, and No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. She is also co-author of Exploring American Histories: A Survey with Sources.Anne M. Valk, PhD, is Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center and Executive Director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. She wrote the award-winning, Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. and co-authored Living with Jim Crow: African Americans and Memories of the Segregated South. She is also co-editor of U.S. Women's History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood.

• About the Contributors ixIntroduction 1Nancy A. Hewitt and Anne M. Valk1 Native Women in the Americas to 1800 7Camilla Townsend2 Slavery and the Slave Trade 23Ebony Jones and Jennifer L. Morgan3 Intersectional Studies of Early American Women and Christianity 39Anna M. Lawrence4 Women and the Law in Early America 55Terri L. Snyder and Cornelia Hughes Dayton5 Women and the Long American Revolution 73Serena Zabin6 Intimate Economies, 1790–1860 89April Haynes7 The Future Looks Bright: Black Women, Slavery, and Freedom, 1780–1865 107Amrita Chakrabarti Myers and Jessica Millward8 Race, Class, Region, and Activism, 1820s–1870s 123Nancy A. Hewitt9 Conflicts and Cultures in the Colonial and Nineteenth-Century West 141Lisbeth Haas10 Women in the Civil War Era 157Hilary Green11 Gender and Social Movements from Reconstruction to the New Deal 175Leslie Dunlap12 Woman Suffrage, Women’s Votes 193Liette Gidlow13 Recovering a Gender-Transgressive Past: A Transgender Historiography 209Emily Skidmore14 Popular Cultures 223Emily Westkaemper15 Working Women, “Welfare Moms,” and Struggles for Subsistence in the Twentieth Century 241Annelise Orleck16 Capitalism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 261Tracey Deutsch and Nan Enstad17 Women, Gender, and the State, ca. 1900–2010 279Jennifer Mittelstadt and Rachel Louise Moran18 Sterilization, Birth Control, and Abortion: Reproductive Politics from 1945 to the Present 299Jennifer Nelson19 Global Women: Migrants and Refugees, 1850s–2000 319Elizabeth Zanoni20 Civil Rights and Black Liberation 337Rebecca Tuuri and Steven F. Lawson21 Rethinking Feminist Movements after World War II 353Anne M. Valk22 Oral History and Testimony in Histories of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 373Jessica Wilkerson23 Digital Demands Toward Decolonial Feminist Futures 389Brittney CooperIndex 405