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Archives of Dispossession
One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical …
Made From This Earth
The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth , Vera Norwood explores the …
Entitled to Power
Native American philosophy has enabled Native American cultures to survive more than five hundred years of attempted cultural assimilation. The first edition of this historical and …
U.S. History As Women's History
This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history. Covering a broad sweep …
Island Queens and Mission Wives
In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries …
Masterful Women
Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves ""masters"" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many …
The Life and Death of Ryan White
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the …
Funding Feminism
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth …
Relative Intimacy
Celebrated as new consumers and condemned for their growing delinquencies, teenage girls emerged as one of the most visible segments of American society during and after World War …
Ladies, Women, and Wenches
Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, …
Labor and Desire
This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class …