The experience of women in the nineteenth century has generated a wealth ofinterdisciplinary research in recent decades. The Columbia Guide to AmericanWomen in ... » 

The experience of women in the nineteenth century has generated a wealth ofinterdisciplinary research in recent decades. The Columbia Guide to AmericanWomen in the Nineteenth Century presents the best of the recent scholarshipavailable in a concise onestop resource providing students of womenshistory and nineteenthcentury American culture with an authoritative source ofinformation and interpretation.The authors emphasize areas in which scholars have identified important changessuch as suffrage and reform topics in which researchers are now making greatstrides such as racial ethnic religious and regional diversity andinnovative and relatively recent explorations for example work on femalesexuality. Accessible overview articles and alphabetical encyclopedialikeentries are combined in a comprehensive easytouse volume.Part 1 contains a historiographical essay followed by a tenchapter narrativeoverview. These chapters include discussions of families and households laborand the workforce religion and morality feminism and equal rights reform andvoluntarism and more.Part 2 is an AtoZ listing of concise entries on key terms notable figurespolitical movements social and religious organizations and legislation.Part 3 is an annotated chronology placing events in historical context.Part 4 is a topically organized selection of the best resources for furtherresearch including general historical works biographies and autobiographiesjournals archives web sites novels and films. «