Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic
It is virtually impossible to generalize about the degree to which women in early America were free. What, if anything, did enslaved black women in the South ha
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which
This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debat