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Fifth Edition
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THROUGH WOMEN’S EYES
An American History
WITH DOCUMENTS
Ellen Carol DuBois
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Lynn Dumenil
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
With Contributions by
Sharla M. Fett
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
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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.
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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/ebookpartners.
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