Women and the Making of America

Name: Women and the Making of America
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ISBN: 9780138126889

ISBN-10: 0138126887

ISBN-13: 9780138126889

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mari Jo Buhle, Teresa Murphy, Jane Gerhard

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A chronological survey of the role and experience of women in American history, Women and the Making of America examines the issue of power in women’s lives and women’s history. Examining relationships between men and women as well as the diverse experiences of different women, the book explores how women were central to the making of America’s history.

Book details

List price: $106.65
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Jane Gerhard is lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University.




Worlds Apart, to 1700


Women in the Americas


Hunting and Gathering


Cultural Differences


Marriage, Family, and Gender Identities


Exercising Power


European Women


Flexible Labor Force


Patriarchal Societies


Challenges to Patriarchy


African Women Before New World Contact


Work and Power


Family Economies


Dependence and Freedom: Slavery in Africa


The Gendered Dynamics of Contact


Discovering New Worlds


Sexuality and Claims of Civilization


Gender and the Emergence of the Slave Trade



Contact and Conquest, 1500-1700


Spanish Conquest in the Southwest


Immigration and Work


Captivity and Kinship


Religion and Conquest


Witchcraft, Resistance, and Revolt


Trading Ventures in the North


The Fur Trade


Catholicism and Conversion


Marriage, Sex, and Survival in the Middle Ground


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