This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field.

• Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism.
  
• Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.
  
• Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

About the Author
Nancy A. Hewitt is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change (1984) and Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (2001), Women's Activism and Social Change (2001), the editor of Women, Families, and Communities (1990), and co-editor of Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (1993), and Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (1996).

Reviews
"Hewitt has collected introductory yet well rounded essays that provide a diversity of scholarly interpretations of American women's history. Each contributor thoroughly synopsizes germane works while incorporating issues such as race, class, and religion. Highly recommended as an introductory examination of American women's history." Choice

"It is impossible to overstate the value of Nancy Hewitt's Companion to American Women's History. It guides us, with tremendous authority, into the vast world of American women's history, as it has developed and as it stands at the beginning of the 21st century. But it is also a powerful intervention. Cutting across conventional categories and divisions, it recasts the field, raising provocative new questions, suggesting new approaches, and opening fresh paths to the future. I can't imagine teaching or writing women's history in the future without this Companion by my side." Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"The original essays in this volume, based on broad-ranging historiography, will be useful and provocative to both the beginning student and the seasoned scholar." Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University

Book Information
ISBN 9781405126854
Author Nancy A. Hewitt
Format Paperback
Page Count 512
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 880g
Dimensions(mm) 248mm * 170mm * 27mm