The Practice of U.S. Women's History

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The Practice of U.S. Women's History is written by S. J. Kleinberg and published by Rutgers University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813541816 (ISBN 10) and 9780813541815 (ISBN 13).

In the last several decades, U.S. 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 social, the economic, and the political, but they have also entered into dialogues with each other over the meaning of women's history itself. In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. Among many other examples, they examine how conceptions of gender shaped government officials' attitudes towards East Asian immigrants; how race and gender inequality pervaded the welfare state; and how color and class shaped Mexican American women's mobilization for civil and labor rights.