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The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues

By Vicki L. Ruiz , S. Jay Kleinberg , Boris Eileen

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0813541808, 9780813541808, 9780813543987
Open Library ID
OL11349872M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1698311 bytes)
Pages
381\381
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic, and the political. They have entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. They examine, for example, how conceptions of gender shaped immigration officials' attitudes towards East Asian immigrants; how race and gender inequality pervaded the welfare state; and how color and class shaped Mexican American women's mobilization for civil and labor rights. Reading the past with all of the messiness, contradictions, and excitement inherent in real life, this book is a provocative meditation on the state of the field.

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