Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues -- Chapter 1: Where the Girls Aren't: Women as Reluctant Migrants but Rational Actors in Early America -- Chapter 2: "Your Women Are of No Small Consequence": Native American Women, Gender, and Early American History -- Chapter 3: From Daughters of Liberty to Women of the Republic: American Women in the Era of the American Revolution -- Chapter 4: Southern Women of Color and the American Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Chapter 5: From Dawn to Dusk: Women's Work in the Antebellum Era -- Chapter 6: To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds: Women and the American Civil War -- Chapter 7: Turner's Ghost: A Personal Retrospective on Western Women's History -- Chapter 8: Gender and U.S. Imperialism in U.S. Women's History -- Chapter 9: Chinese American Women in U.S. History: Explaining Representations of Exotic Others, Passive Objects, and Active Subjects -- Chapter 10: Migrations and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women -- Chapter 11: African American Women and Migration -- Chapter 12: Morena/o, Blanca/o, y Café con Leche: Racial Constructions in Chicana/o Historiography -- Chapter 13: The Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 -- Chapter 14: Engendering Social Welfare Policy -- Chapter 15: Interrupting Norms and Constructing Deviances: Competing Frameworks in the Histories of Sexualities in the United States -- Chapter 16: Strong People and Strong Leaders: African American Women and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle -- Chapter 17: A New Century of Struggle: Feminism and Antifeminism in the United States, 1920-Present -- Contributors -- Index.