A Companion to American Women's History

The Blackwell Companion to American Women's History consists of roughly twenty-eight original essays on critical themes and topics in American women's history. The work assesses the past thirty years of scholarship when Women's History first began to take shape within American History.
Part One discusses women in colonial times from 1600-1760, and addresses Europeans coming in contact with Native American, Afriday, and colonial women for the first time
early family structures, religion and economy. Part Two (1760-1880) addresses women's participation in the American revolution, adjusting to social and political upheaval, agrarian work, participation in the new indsutrial/urban society and lives of slave women. Part Three (1880-present) looks at migration and immigration, women's movements at the turn of the 20th century, wage earning women, consumerism, education, women's liberation and the backlash towards feminism in the late 20th century conservative America.