The Oxford handbook of American womens and gender history The Oxford Handbook of American Womens and Gender History boldly explores the history of diverse women and how ideas about gender shaped their access to political and cultural power in North America over six centuries. In 29 chapters the handbook showcases womens and gender history as an integrated field with its own interpretation of the past focused on how gender influenced peoples lives as they participated in migration colonialism trade warfare artistic production and community building. Organized chronologically and thematically the handbooks six sections allow readers to consider historical continuities of gendered power as well as individual innovations and ruptures in gender systems. Theoretically cutting edge each chapter bursts with fascinating historical characters from young Chicanas transforming urban culture to free women of color forging abolitionist doctrines to Asian migrant women defending the legitimacy of their marriages to working class activists mobilizing international movements to transwomen fleeing incarceration. Together their lives constitute the history of a continent Gender frontiers and early encounters Kathleen M. Brown Manhood and gender in the United States empire Toby L. Ditz Women conquest and imperialism in the American West Deena J. González Gender migration and the American empire Lorena Oropeza Women unfree labor and slavery in the Atlantic world Marisa J. Fuentes Women power and families in early modern North America Sarah M. S. Pearsall Women and slavery in the nineteenth century Daina Ramey Berry and Nakia D. Parker Womens labors in industrial and post industrial America Eileen Boris and Lara Vapnek Public and print cultures of sex in the long nineteenth century Patricia Cline Cohen Interracial sex marriage and the nation Mary Ting Yi Lui Reproduction birth control and motherhood in the United States Rickie Solinger Sexual coercion in America Sharon Block Gender the body and disability Rebecca Kluchin Transgender representations identities and communities Jen Manion Women trade and the roots of consumer societies Serena R. Zabin Gender and consumption in the modern United States Tracey Deutsch Women at play in popular culture M. Alison Kibler Women gender and religion in the United States Ann Braude Religion reform and anti slavery Margaret Washington Womens rights suffrage and citizenship 1789 1820 Ellen Carol DuBois Women gender race and the welfare state Rhonda Y. Williams US feminisms and their global connections Judy Tzu Chun Wu Sexual minorities and sexual rights Marcia M. Gallo Women gender and conservatism in twentieth century America Michelle Nickerson Women war and revolution Kate Haulman Women the Civil War and reconstruction Hannah Rosen Women and World War in comparative perspective Meghan K. Winchell Gender civil rights and the US global Cold War Dayo F. Gore