In 29 chapters, the handbook showcases women's and gender history as an integrated field with its own interpretation of the past, focused on how gender influenced people's lives as they participated in migration, colonialism, trade, warfare, artistic production, and community-building.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender frontiers and early encounters / Kathleen M. Brown -- Manhood and gender in the US republican empire / Toby L. Ditz -- Women and conquest in the American West / Deena J. González -- Women, gender, migration, and modern US imperialism / 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 -- Women's 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 -- Women's rights, suffrage, and citizenship, 1789-1920 / 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.