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GENDER IN EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA

This wide-ranging collection of works about gender in American history from colonial times onwards raises interesting issues about the future direction of gender history. These include the extent to which gender history and women’s history overlap, the necessity or desirability of narrative synthesis, and the problem of finding source materials for those traditionally excluded from historical interpretations. Although the scholarship displayed here is impressive, only a few authors have the confidence to tackle these issues head on, and it is a shame that so many works adopt the same, rather safe, formulaic format both within and between individual chapters. The majority of these books use a chronological The Historical Journal, 52, 1 (2009), pp. 253–264 f 2009 Cambridge University Press doi:10.1017/S0018246X08007395 Printed in the United Kingdom