Description:
A convenient handbook of dates, names, terms, and resources as well as a highly readable overview of the pivotal role of women in a century of profound political and social change. The authors emphasize areas in which scholars have identified important changes (such as suffrage and reform), topics in which researchers are now making great strides (such as racial, ethnic, religious, and regional diversity), and innovative and relatively recent explorations (for example, work on female sexuality).
Review Quotes: [The authors] begin with a historiographical overview of the literature followed by highly readable chapters on topics from economy, households, and labor to suffrage and reform politics... provides an excellent introduction to the subject.--Choice