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About the Contributors ix Introduction xii PART I THE COLONIAL ERA, 1600–1760 1 1 The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes 3Kirsten Fischer 2 Slavery and the Slave Trade 20Jennifer L. Morgan 3 Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America 35Gwenn A. Miller 4 Building Colonies, Defining Families 49Ann M. Little 5 Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America 66Susan Juster PART II THE CREATION OF A NEW NATION, 1760–1880 81 6 A Revolution for Whom? Women in the Era of the American Revolution 83Jem E. Lewis 7 Gender and Class Formations in the Antebellum North 100Catherine Kelly 8 Religion, Reform, and Radicalism in the Antebellum Era 117Nancy A. Hewitt 9 Conflicts and Cultures in the West 132Lisbeth Haas 10 Rural Women 150Marli F. Weiner 11 The Civil War Era 167Thavolia Glymph 12 Marriage, Property, and Class 193Amy Dru Stanley 13 Health, Sciences, and Sexualities in Victorian America 206Louise Michele Newman PART III MODERN AMERICA, 1880–1990 225 14 Education and the Professions 227Lynn D. Gordon 15 Wage–earning Women 250Annelise Orleck 16 Consumer Cultures 274Susan Porter Benson 17 Urban Spaces and Popular Cultures, 1890–1930 295Nan Enstad 18 Women on the Move: Migration and Immigration 312Ardis Cameron 19 Women's Movements, 1880s–1920s 328Kirsten Delegard 20 Medicine, Law, and the State: The History of Reproduction 348Leslie J. Reagan 21 The Great Depression and World War II 366Karen Anderson 22 Rewriting Postwar Women's History, 1945–1960 382Joanne Meyerowitz 23 Civil Rights and Black Liberation 397Steven F. Lawson 24 Second–wave Feminism 414Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon Bibliography: Selected Secondary Sources 433Compiled by April de Stefano Index 481