Women's America

Fülszöveg

This new edition of a widely-acclaimed anthology integrates the best of the extensive new scholarship in women's history with American history as a whole. Some sixty documents and articles—ranging from accounts of seventeenth-century obstetrical practices to an analysis of contemporary feminism—are framed by a conceptually sophisticated yet accessible introduction that demonstrates how biology, economics, politics, and ideology interact in the rich, distinctive history of American women. With its wealth of primary and secondary source materials, its revised appendix of essential documents (focusing on such legal issues as the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion), its clear chronological organization and concise headnotes, this volume is a complete and unique sourcebook. In this innovative second edition Women's America demonstrates with new force and vigor why gender has become a powerful analytical device for those seeking to understand the past.
Praise for the Second Edition
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Fülszöveg

This new edition of a widely-acclaimed anthology integrates the best of the extensive new scholarship in women's history with American history as a whole. Some sixty documents and articles—ranging from accounts of seventeenth-century obstetrical practices to an analysis of contemporary feminism—are framed by a conceptually sophisticated yet accessible introduction that demonstrates how biology, economics, politics, and ideology interact in the rich, distinctive history of American women. With its wealth of primary and secondary source materials, its revised appendix of essential documents (focusing on such legal issues as the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion), its clear chronological organization and concise headnotes, this volume is a complete and unique sourcebook. In this innovative second edition Women's America demonstrates with new force and vigor why gender has become a powerful analytical device for those seeking to understand the past.
Praise for the Second Edition
. "A great compilation of the best of women's history is made even better by articles that enrich and bring this book up to date. The panorama—from colonial times to the present—is breathtaking!"—Arthur S. Link, George Henry Davis Professor of American History and Director and Editor o/The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University
"This second and substantially revised edition of Women's America explores women's distinctive past and incorporates it into America's history. Combining varied and powerful documents and recent scholarship within an interpretive framework that is as original as it is persuasive, this dazzling anthology offers readers the richness and diversity of women's historical experience."—Mary Kelley, Dartmouth College
"Panoramic in scope, Women's America offers a new America. The book is a gift to our understanding of history and a tribute to the power of the new scholarship about women." —Catharine R. Stimpson, Rutgers University
About the Editors
Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America and Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America.
Jane De Hart-Mathews, Professor of History and American Studies and Director of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of The Federal Theatre 1935-1939: Plays, Reliefs, and Politics and co-author (with Donald G. Mathews) of The Equal Rights A mendmentand the Politics of Cultural Conflict (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
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