Emphasizes the diversity of women’s experiences. Integrating women from a broad range of classes, ethnicities, religions, and regions into its interpretive framework, this book pays particular attention to Native American, African American, Latina, Asian American, and working-class women, reflecting not only current scholarship but the diversity of today’s classrooms.
Examines women’s history in the context of the forces that shaped American society. This book helps students learn how women’s lives aligned with major historical changes and movements in U.S. history, including abolitionism, progressive reform, industrialization, immigration, wars, and civil rights movements.
Provides a useful format for teaching and learning women’s history, combining an overarching narrative with a wealth of primary sources. Over 220 written and visual sources reveal to students the wide range of documents available for historical inquiry while offering instructors a treasure trove of teaching materials.
Rich and diverse sources supply the framework for enlightening class discussions. Document essays focus on both well-known historical topics and figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and lesser-known sources such as the testimonies of former slaves. Visual source essays range from Portraits of Revolutionary Women to Television’s Prescriptions for Women in the 1950s.