United States after 1865
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The history of women in the United States since 1865 reveals several important unifying themes: women's increasing participation in paid labor outside the home and the changes this shift brought about in family life; women's expanding desires and struggles to take control over their reproductive and sexual lives; and the steady aspiration of women to gain entry into and influence over electoral politics. But in order to present a sufficiently nuanced and situated history of women in the U.S. through this period, these unifying processes must be considered together with other forces that shaped women's lives. Throughout American history, the differences among women, who represent the full racial, religious, socio-economic and ethnic spectrum of American life, have been as significant as the similarities, and never more so than in this period of great population expansion and diversification. Furthermore, women were affected by political, demographic, economic, and cultural developments shaping American society as a whole: especially the abolition of slavery, industrialization, urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of consumer culture, and the social upheavals of the last thirty-five years of the twentieth century. Making these connections links what we learn about women's past to what we know about this nation's history more broadly.
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