Modern American Women: a Documentary History, 1890 to the Present - Softcover

Ware, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070715270 ISBN 13: 9780070715271

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1997

Synopsis

A collection of more than 75 primary sources, all of them (with the exception of two Supreme Court decisions) were written by women. The aim is to tell the story of American women over the last 100 years, primarily in their own words. This volume can stand alone, or be used in combination with Nancy Woloch's "Early American Women 1600-1900". The book is organized into three parts and 13 chapters, so that it can be used within the structure of a semester-long course. Each chapter opens with a general historical overview, which is followed by five to seven documents. A wide range of sources are drawn on to make up the documents in the book, these include letters, speeches, diaries, memoirs, autobiography, novels, social science and oral history, and the experiences of Native American women, Jewish women, black women, Mexican American women and Latinas and Asian-American women are fully represented.

About this title

From the Publisher

-Organized into three parts, and thirteen chapters, a structure which works well in a semester-long course.
-Each chapter opens with a general historical overview followed by five to seven documents.
-MODERN AMERICAN WOMEN draws on a wide variety of sources, including letters, speeches, diaries, memoirs, autobiography, novels, social science, and oral history.
-The experiences of Native American women, Jewish women, black women, Mexican American women and Latinas, and Asian-American women are fully represented.
-Chapters are constituted with a variety of voices that encourage comparison, debate, analysis, and discussion.

About the Author

Susan Ware specializes in twentieth-century U.S. history and the history of American Women. The author of 'Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism'(1993); 'Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics'(1987); Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s'(1982); and 'Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal'(1981), Ware taught in the history department of New York University from 1986-1995 and served as an Honorary Visiting Scholar at the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe College from 1996-1997. She is currently an independent scholar based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070715270
• ISBN 13: 9780070715271
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 432