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Women initiate the project of American nationalism.

Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence. White men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet preserved the railroad as a masculine domain.

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women.

Detroit's black population grew exponentially in the early decades of the 20th century. This work examines how the women served not just as models of bourgeois respectability, but began to shape traditional standards of deportment in response to the new realities of their lives.

During World War II, more than 12,000 male conscientious objectors entered Civilian Public Service. However, this study focuses on the 2000 women who joined this church-supported programme - most of whom were part of Mennonite, Amish, Brethren, or Quaker families with deeply held anti-war beliefs.

Traces the transformation of the American labour movement from community forms of solidarity to bureaucratic unionism. Arguing that gender is central to understanding this shift, Elizabeth Faue explores women's involvement in labour and political organisations and the role of gender and family ideology in shaping unionism in the twentieth century.

Reveals the vibrant, transnational, and multiethnic world of working-class women's politics. This title presents the Italian working-class women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational, radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement.

In this study, Linda M. Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. She explores how black and white 19th-century women writers defined, expressed and dramatized anger.

In a new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.

African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is remembered mainly for her antilynching crusade in the 1890s. This work seeks to restore her to her central place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad.

Exploring the cultural dimensions of the US contact with Haiti through a range of examples from the occupation and its aftermath, this text shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of Imperialism

Contains 17 personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. The essays in this book show how - first as graduate students and then as professional historians - they entered and navigated the realm of higher education, a world concerned with and dominated by whites and men.

In this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s. She argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise among girls and young women decades earlier.

This history analyzes women's antislavery petitions, the speeches calling women to petition and public reaction from 1831 to 1865. It argues that petitioning not only made significant steps to abolish slavery but also contributed toward transforming women's political identity.

Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the whaling industry of New England sent thousands of men to distant seas. This work examines letters and diaries, shipowners' records, church records, newspapers and city directories, to reconstruct the lives of the ""Cape Horn widows"" left behind onshore.

Searching for Scientific Womanpower: Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution

Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935

Drawing on short stories, adverts, medical writings and Hollywood films, this study explores gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism in post-war America.

Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities

Susan Van Dyne's reading of twenty-five of Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems considers three contexts: Plath's journal entries from 1957 to 1959 (especially as they reveal her conflicts over what it meant to be a middle-class wife and mother and an aspiring writer in 1950s America); the interpretive strategies of feminist theory; and Plath's multiple revisions of the poems.

Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, this work shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. Contributing to scholarship in American history, gender studies, and rural studies, it sheds light on the rhetoric of ""family values.

Shedding light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute ""deadbeat dads,"" this book traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make ""runaway husbands"" support their families. It analyzes the history of antidesertion reform from its emergence in social policy debates.

Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. She offers portraits of individual girls and women - both prostitutes and ""respectable"" white workers - seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities.

This book locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past, arguing that women, work, and welfare were intertwined concerns of the liberal welfare state beginning just after World War II. It examines the reform of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) and reconstructs the ideology, implementation, and consequences of rehabilitation.

Examining the works of Lucille Clifton, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker, this book highlights ways in which these African American authors construct family genealogies, filling in the gaps with dreams, rituals, music, or images that forge a connection to family lost through slavery.

This book situates North Carolina's reproductive politics in a national and global context. It demonstrates how each method for limiting unwanted pregnancies had the potential both to expand and to limit women's reproductive choices. Schoen's study allows deeper understandings of the modern welfare state and the lives of women.