Circles and Settings: Role Changes of American Women is an original, comprehensive
analysis of changing roles of American women at a time of great upheaval and public, as�…

From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts,
traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major�…

In the last several decades, US 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�…

Until recently, a" womanless" American history was the norm. But in fact, without a history of
women we neglect consideration of gender dynamics, sex roles, and family and sexual�…

Examines an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical texts—canonical and
otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary�…

In the early twentieth century, Americans often waxed lyrical about “Mother Love,” signaling
a conception of motherhood as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in self-sacrifice and�…

Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating,
intimate collection of documents—letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches�…

When she began work on this collection, Barbara Ellen Smith was asked," Why work on a
book about women in the South? Nobody writes books about women in the Midwest." In an�…

summary The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers examines the lives of
Latin American women who entered factory labor in increasing numbers in the early part of�…

Annotation In a time when most Americans never questioned the premise that women
should be subordinate to men, and in a place where only white men enjoyed fully the rights�…