In the last several decades, U.S. women's history has come of   age. Not only have historians challenged the national narrative on the   basis of their rich explorations of the personal, the social, the economic,   and the political.  They have entered into dialogues with each other over   the meaning of women's history itself.  In this collection of seventeen original essays on women's lives from the   colonial period to the present, contributors take the competing forces of   race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and region into account. They   examine, for example, how conceptions of gender shaped immigration   officials' attitudes towards East Asian immigrants; how race and gender   inequality pervaded the welfare state; and how color and class shaped   Mexican American women's mobilization for civil and labor rights.   Reading the past with all of the messiness, contradictions, and excitement   inherent in real life, this book is a provocative meditation on the state   of the field.

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