 |  Women and the American Experience Concise, 2/e Nancy Woloch,
Barnard College
Feature SummaryNew Features:
- Up-to-date coverage of U.S. Women's History has been incorporated into various sections throughout the text. Examples include the last section of Chapter 11, which discusses "Women and the Law" in the 1990s.
- Recent scholarship incorporated throughout the text. For instance, new material in Chapter 7 relates to research on woman's suffrage.
- An extensive bibliography at the end of each chapter updates the suggested
readings and sources offered in this book.
- New material in each chapter deals directly with the diversity of
race, region and ethnicity.
- New material reveals the experience of African American women, Latina
women, Native American women and Asian American women. Topics that have been
added include:
- Women's roles in Iroquois society in the 18th century
- women's lives on small farms in the antebellum South
- Recent interpretations of women's roles under slavery
- Chinese immigrant women in California in the 1850s and beyond
- Black middle-class women in the late 19th century
- The experiences of Native American women in Indian boarding schools
- Minority women in the 1920s and 1930s
- Japanese American women during World War II
- The impact of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996.
- Three new sections: "The Trans-Mississippi West", "Migrants and Immigrants" and "Women and the Law" focus on pioneer and Native Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African American women, Mexican American women and second-generation European immigrant women in the 1920s and important legal trends of the past decade, including the development of the sexual harassment law, respectively.
- Over 60 illustrations throughout the book add a cultural and pictorial context while supplementing the text
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education