Three decades of women’s history in the United States

examples Such work successfully breaches the wall confining women to a ghetto apart from and integrates them into the mainstream of U.S. history, for instance work on the early processes of industrialization, which emphasizes women’s work within the household as well as men’s in the factory; or gender-focused scholarship on imperialism, which studies how images of masculinity and femininity were used to justify early foreign interventions by the United States.

The second development that distinguishes the recent generation of historians of women is their increasingly successful