The experience of women in the nineteenth century has generated
a wealth of interdisciplinary research in recent decades. "The
Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century"
presents the best of the recent scholarship available in a concise,
"one-stop" resource, providing students of women's history and
nineteenth-century American culture with an authoritative source of
information and interpretation.
The authors emphasize areas in which scholars have identified
important changes (such as suffrage and reform), topics in which
researchers are now making great strides (such as racial, ethnic,
religious, and regional diversity), and innovative and relatively
recent explorations (for example, work on female sexuality).
Accessible overview articles and alphabetical encyclopedia-like
entries are combined in a comprehensive, easy-to-use volume.
Part 1 contains a historiographical essay followed by a
ten-chapter narrative overview. These chapters include discussions
of families and households, labor and the workforce, religion and
morality, feminism and equal rights, reform and voluntarism, and
more.
Part 2 is an A-to-Z listing of concise entries on key terms,
notable figures, political movements, social and religious
organizations, and legislation.
Part 3 is an annotated chronology placing events in historical
context.
Part 4 is a topically organized selection of the best resources
for further research, including general historical works,
biographies and autobiographies, journals, archives, web sites,
novels, and films.
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