This new book is sure to surprise and enlighten readers as it explores the rich history of American women over the past four centuries, from Susan B. Anthony to Susan Brownmiller, Jane Addams to Jane Roe, Eleanor Roosevelt to Eleanor Smeal.
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Mills's third book is a popular telling of American women's history using biography and the Socratic method. Each chapter examines a different period of history and poses a series of questions about famous women's lives. Mills touches on such major issues as the franchise, education, employment, and military service as well as women's cultural contributions. Less scholarly in style than her two previous endeavors (A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Pages, LJ 9/15/88, and This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, LJ 1/93), this book is based on the major texts of American women's history. A 25-year veteran of newspaper journalism, Mills has written her overview of women's achievement for the casual reader. Recommended for public and high school libraries.?Jenny Presnell, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, Ohio
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Journalist Mills, whose biography of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, This Little Light of Mine (1992), was a 1993 ALA Best Book, uses a question-and-answer format in this compendium of information about the history of women in the U.S. Chronological chapters--" The Early Years," "Young Nation," "America at Mid^-Nineteenth Century," and so on--are interspersed with chapters on women's education, daily life in the nineteenth century, women in the workplace, the role of women's organizations, and women's contributions to American culture. In each chapter, Mills poses a half-dozen to two dozen questions and proceeds to answer them. She also includes valuable lists of "Milestones" in U.S. women's history. From Pocahontas to Power Suits will certainly not replace on library shelves the scholarly books on women's studies from which Mills draws, but it can provide an accessible introduction to this literature--as well as a resource for term papers and for resolution of friendly arguments about who did what when. Mary Carroll
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Concise, informative and entertaining,
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This review is from: From Pocahontas to Power Suits: Everything You Need to Know about Women's History in America (Paperback)
This well-researched book objectively covers every topic of women's history in America. With the mind of a scholar and compassion for her readers, Mills includes every major female in America's history. It will inspire you to learn more about the role models mentioned and provide a good source for research. I would recommend this book to anyone over the age of 12. It will change how you see the impact of women on America.
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Excellent book,
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This review is from: From Pocahontas to Power Suits: Everything You Need to Know about Women's History in America (Paperback)
This book was very good, a help when i needed it.
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presumtious precept,
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This review is from: From Pocahontas to Power Suits: Everything You Need to Know about Women's History in America (Paperback)
This book's title claims a broad accomplishment, an "all your answers are here" assertion. Although it presents hundreds of historical figures, it is quickly evident that by "History of Women," the author means "The Plight of Women and What Their Heroes Have Done About It." The narrative embraces the concept that from this county's origin to the present, women are victims of misogyny, but that there are several heroes of the struggle. Despite the decline in feminist momentum, there nevertheless seems to be a wealth of "historical" readings recently published by feminists. A critique of feminism's tenants will not be attempted with this review, but it seems pressing to take issue with the didactic narratives of "historical" texts such as this one. Exempt from their presentations is a clear discussion of three essential components: definitions of the terms "oppression" and "liberty," and the ideologies that steer their metanarratives in the name of "history." The exemption of these elements does not allow for rhetorical inquiry, which is vital for the veracity of the texts' contents. Feminist history, arguably a genre of its own, credulously seeks to convert its readers on the pretense that there is a universal understanding of what it means to be oppressed and liberated. Once readers naively embrace this pretense, they are prone to also believing the tenants of feminism. Perhaps, then, the narrative of this book will successfully promote the feminist agenda, but its converts will have naively succumbed to the same tactics of hierarchical propaganda that it claims to abhor.
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