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<p><b>The most important collection of essays on American Women&rsquo;s History</b> </p> <p>This collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women&rsquo;s history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It assesses the past thirty years of scholarship, capturing the ways that women's historians confront issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This second edition updates essays related to Indigenous women, slavery, the American Revolution, Civil War, the West, activism, labor, popular culture, civil rights, and feminism. It also includes a discussion of laws, capitalism, gender identity and transgender experience, welfare, reproductive politics, oral history, as well as an exploration of the perspectives of free Blacks and migrants and refugees.   </p> <p>Spanning from the 15^th through the 21^st centuries, chapters show how historians of women, gender, and sexuality have challenged established chronologies and advanced new understandings of America&rsquo;s political, economic, intellectual and social history. </p> <p>This edition also features a new essay on the history of women&rsquo;s suffrage to coincide with the 100th anniversary of passage of the 19th Amendment, as well as a new article that carries issues of women, gender and sexuality into the 21st century.  </p> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Includes twenty-three original essays by leading scholars in American women's, gender and sexuality history </li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;">Highlights the most recent schol