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Through Women’s Eyes: An American History With Documents, 5th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1319104931
ISBN-10: 1319104932

Author: Ellen DuBois (Author), Lynn Dumenil (Author)

Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents was the first text to present a narrative of US women’s history within the context of the central developments of the United States and to combine this core narrative with written and visual primary sources in each chapter. The authors’ commitment to highlighting the best and most current scholarship, along with their focus on women from a broad range of ethnicities, classes, religions, and regions, has helped students really understand US history Through Women’s Eyes.

PREFACE FOR INSTRUCTORS
EACH NEW EDITION OF Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents provides an opportunity to revisit and refine our vision for this textbook. Our original goal was to create a U.S. women’s history that combined an inclusive and diverse narrative with primary-source essays — a comprehensive resource to aid instructors and encourage student engagement and analysis. We have been thoroughly delighted that this book has resonated with instructors and students alike and were gratified to hear from one instructor that it is “the single best textbook in U.S. women’s history.” Our
belief that U.S. women’s history is U.S. history and vice versa continues to fuel our approach to this book, and we are pleased that Through Women’s Eyes is the number one choice for U.S.
women’s history.
NEW TO THIS EDITION
In this new edition, we have paid particular attention to the theme of women and health, as well as the connections among women activists from the nineteenth century to the present.
Recent developments in scholarship and reviewer requests also prompted the addition of new material on slavery; Native American women; Western history; popular culture; environmentalism and ecofeminism; lesbian and transgender history; twentieth-century feminism; and women in contemporary politics, with particular emphasis on the 2016 election and its aftermath.
Of the thirty-four primary-source features, four are new and two have been substantially revised. New essays include “Mothering under Slavery, ” “Female Labor in the Gold Rush Economy, ” “Representing Native American Women in the Late Nineteenth Century, ” and “Women’s Lobbying in the 1920s.” New documents on witchcraft have been added to Chapter 2’s “By and About Colonial Women,” and a new selection by Judith Sargent Murray has been added to Chapter 4. New “Reading into the Past” documents include a woman’s account of her escape from slavery in Chapter 3; an account of the Bear Flag Revolt told by a Californiana in Chapter 5; labor activist Genora Johnson Dollinger on the 1936–37 Flint sit-down strike in Chapter 9; Esther Peterson on the President’s Commission on the Status of Women in Chapter 10; an account of forced sterilization in Chapter 11; an excerpt from Lakota activist LaDonna Brave Bull Allard that provides historical context for the opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline, and a
piece on Ilhan Omar, the first Muslim Somali American lawmaker, both in Chapter 12. Also new to the fifth edition, the “Reading into the Past” documents now include “Questions for Analysis.”
We have also heard reviewer calls for end-of-chapter pedagogy and have added chapter reviews to the narrative section of every chapter. The review includes key terms and people, narrative review questions, and a synthetic “Making Connections” question.
We are also very excited to welcome Sharla M. Fett as a contributor to this edition. Fett brings her expertise on American slavery and the history of women’s health. She has helped to revise Chapters 1–6 for the fifth edition. Finally, with the fifth edition, we once again offer Through Women’s Eyes as split volumes (Volume 1, Chapters 1–7; Volume 2, Chapters 6–12) in addition to the combined comprehensive volume with all chapters. We also continue to include the option to purchase a low-cost e-book version of Through Women’s Eyes. For a list of our publishing partners’ sites, see macmillanhighered.com/eBook partners.
APPROACH AND FORMAT
Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents challenges the separation of “women’s history” from what students, in our experience, think of as “real history.” We treat all central developments of American history, always through women’s eyes, so that students may experience the broad sweep of the nation’s past from a new and illuminating perspective.
Through Women’s Eyes combines in-depth treatment of well-known aspects of the history of women, such as the experiences of Lowell mill girls and slave women, the cult of true womanhood, and the rise of feminism, with developments in U.S. history not usually considered from the perspective of women, including the conquest of the Americas, the role of women in war and the military, post–World War II
anticommunism, the civil rights movement, and the increasingly visible role that women have played in recent politics. Our goal of a full integration of women’s history and U.S. history is pragmatic as well as principled. We recognize that there may be some students who read Through Women’s Eyes who have little background in U.S. history and that they will be learning the nation’s history as they follow women
through it.
At the same time that we broaden the conception of women’s and U.S. history, we offer an inclusive view of the lives of American women and their historical experiences. We continue to decenter the narrative from an emphasis on white privileged women to bring ethnic and racial minorities and wage-earning women from the margins to the center of our story. In providing an integrated analysis of the rich variety of
women that include ethnic and racial diversity and class, immigrant status, geographical information, and sexual orientation differences, we have also explored the dynamics of relationships between women. Examples of sisterhood emerge from our pages, but so too do the hierarchical relations of class and race and other sources of tensions that erected barriers between women.
Just as many of our students hold preconceived notions of women’s history as an intriguing adjunct to “real history, ” they often equate the historian’s finished product with historical “truth.” We remain determined to reveal the relationship between historical scholarship and original sources to show history as a dynamic process of investigation and interpretation rather than a set body of facts and figures. To this end, we divide each of our chapters into narrative text and primary source essays. Written sources range from diaries, letters, and memoirs to poems, newspaper accounts, and public testimony.
Visual sources include artifacts, engravings, portraits, photographs, cartoons, and television screen shots. Instructors often tell us that these essays are their favorite aspect of the book. “The primary-source essays are an outstanding way for students to explore topics more in-depth, ” one instructor wrote, “and students really connect to the individual stories.”
Together, the sources reveal to students the wide variety of primary evidence from which history is crafted. Our documentary and visual essays not only allow for focused treatment of many topics — for example, the experience of Native American women before and after European conquest, the higher education of women before 1900, women’s use of cosmetics in the context of a commercialized beauty culture, women’s roles in World War II, women’s activism in the civil rights movement, and gender in the military — but also provide ample guidance for students to analyze historical documents thoughtfully. Each essay offers advice about evaluating the sources presented and poses questions for analysis intended to foster students’ ability to think independently and critically. Substantive headnotes to the sources and plentiful cross-references between the narrative and the essays further encourage students to appreciate the relationship between historical sources and historical writing.