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"Enjoyable reading....It presents these fascinating women in a lively and compelling fashion."--Reviews in American History
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Until recently, a "womanless" American history was the norm. But in fact, without a history of women we neglect consideration of gender dynamics, sex roles, and family and sexual relations--the very fundamentals of human interaction. In Portraits of American Women, G.J. Barker-Benfield and Catherine Clinton present twenty-four short essays on American women beginning with Pocahontas and ending with Betty Friedan.
"Enjoyable reading....It presents these fascinating women in a lively and compelling fashion."--Reviews in American History
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Until recently, a "womanless" American history was the norm. But in fact, without a history of women we neglect consideration of gender dynamics, sex roles, and family and sexual relations--the very fundamentals of human interaction. In Portraits of American Women, G.J. Barker-Benfield and Catherine Clinton present twenty-four short essays on American women beginning with Pocahontas and ending with Betty Friedan.
The essays here locate the histories of women and men together by period and provide a sense of their continuities through the whole gallery of the American past. The editors selected women who made "significant contributions in the public realm," be they in the areas of art, literature, political engagement, educational activities, or reform movements. Included here are portraits of such luminaries as Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Mead, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anne Hutchinson, Phillis Wheatley, Margaret Fuller, and Rose Schneiderman, to name a few. Each portrait is fashioned to appeal to a wide range of readers, and all include sound scholarship and accessible prose, and raise provocative issues to illuminate women's lives within a broad range of historical transformations.
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Cultures from three continents came together in seventeenth-century North America; they were remarkably different from one another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contraband slaves, social housekeeping, domestic feminism, political feminism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Crystal Eastman, Phillis Wheatley, Eleanor Roosevelt, New England, Charlotte Perkins, Jane Addams, Jefferson Davis, South Carolina, Nancy Ward, Alice Paul, Mary Lincoln, Anne Hutchinson, Rose Schneiderman, Varina Davis, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Mead, White House, World War, Boston Public Library, American Revolution, Charlotte Stetson, Charles Town, Catharine Beecher New!
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Cultures from three continents came together in seventeenth-century North America; they were remarkably different from one another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contraband slaves, social housekeeping, domestic feminism, political feminism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Crystal Eastman, Phillis Wheatley, Eleanor Roosevelt, New England, Charlotte Perkins, Jane Addams, Jefferson Davis, South Carolina, Nancy Ward, Alice Paul, Mary Lincoln, Anne Hutchinson, Rose Schneiderman, Varina Davis, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Mead, White House, World War, Boston Public Library, American Revolution, Charlotte Stetson, Charles Town, Catharine Beecher New!
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- Women and Economics by Charlotte Perkins [Stetson] Gilman on 5 pages
- Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Norton Critical Editions) by Margaret Fuller on 4 pages
- Twenty Years at Hull-House (Signet Classics) by Jane Addams on 4 pages
- Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics) by Margaret Mead on 4 pages
- Sex and Power: The Rise of Women in America, Russia, Sweden, and Italy by Donald Meyer on page 363, page 594, and Back Matter
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- The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965 (Politics and Culture in Modern America) by Sylvie Murray in Back Matter
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- Girls Who Rocked the World : Heroines from Sacagawea to Sheryl Swoopes by Amelie Welden in Back Matter
- Gods, Mongrels, and Demons: 101 Brief But Essential Lives by Angus Calder on page 171
- Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business by Virginia G. Drachman in Back Matter
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