Review:
"Balanced yet poignant focus on a past both rich and proud! I will use it!"--Ted Kluz, Auburn University"Excellent work--covers all major questions and topics in the field. A good blend of primary and secondary sources."--Joseph Karpenski, Golden West College"My students raved over the content! All regarded the essays as infromative and interesting."--Patricia Ojea, Cedar Crest College"Well conceived, with great documents included to support the focus piece."--M. Deborah Bialeschki, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"Excellent primary and secondary material, good for teaching politics, economics and culture of women in American history."--Rosalyn Baxandall, SUNY at Old Westbury"Richer and far more poignant than other texts. Better suited to my course which compares European and US women's experience."--Deb Symonds, Drake University"Wonderful book! We learned a lot from it!"--Helena Czosnyka, St. Louis College of Pharmacy"A grand collection of essays and resources."--pamela Laird, University of Colorado at Denver"From the new cover picture of Wasps to the inclusion of women challenging feminism, this Fourth Edition makes a superb teaching instrument even better!"--Norma Mitchell, Troy State University"Great new edition!"--Debra O'Neal, CalState-Fullerton "Balanced yet poignant focus on a past both rich and proud! I will use it!"--Ted Kluz, Auburn University "Excellent work--covers all major questions and topics in the field. A good blend of primary and secondary sources."--Joseph Karpenski, Golden West College "My students raved over the content! All regarded the essays as infromative and interesting."--Patricia Ojea, Cedar Crest College "Well conceived, with great documents included to support the focus piece."--M. Deborah Bialeschki, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Excellent primary and secondary material, good for teaching politics, economics and culture of women in American history."--Rosalyn Baxandall, SUNY at Old Westbury "Richer and far more poignant than other texts. Better suited to my course which compares European and US women's experience."--Deb Symonds, Drake University "Wonderful book! We learned a lot from it!"--Helena Czosnyka, St. Louis College of Pharmacy "A grand collection of essays and resources."--pamela Laird, University of Colorado at Denver "From the new cover picture of Wasps to the inclusion of women challenging feminism, this Fourth Edition makes a superb teaching instrument even better!"--Norma Mitchell, Troy State University "Great new edition!"--Debra O'Neal, CalState-Fullerton "Balanced yet poignant focus on a past both rich and proud! I will use it!"--Ted Kluz, Auburn University "Excellent work--covers all major questions and topics in the field. A good blend of primary and secondary sources."--Joseph Karpenski, Golden West College "My students raved over the content! All regarded the essays as infromative and interesting."--Patricia Ojea, Cedar Crest College "Well conceived, with great documents included to support the focus piece."--M. Deborah Bialeschki, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Excellent primary and secondary material, good for teaching politics, economics and culture of women in American history."--Rosalyn Baxandall, SUNY at Old Westbury "Richer and far more poignant than other texts. Better suited to my course which compares European and US women's experience."--Deb Symonds, Drake University "Wonderful book! We learned a lot from it!"--Helena Czosnyka, St. Louis College of Pharmacy "A grand collection of essays and resources."--pamela Laird, University of Colorado at Denver "From the new cover picture of Wasps to the inclusion of women challenging feminism, this Fourth Edition makes a superb teaching instrument even better!"--Norma Mitchell, Troy State University "Great new edition!"--Debra O'Neal, CalState-Fullerton "Balanced yet poignant focus on a past both rich and proud! I will use it!"--Ted Kluz, Auburn University"Excellent work--covers all major questions and topics in the field. A good blend of primary and secondary sources."--Joseph Karpenski, Golden West College"My students raved over the content! All regarded the essays as infromative and interesting."--Patricia Ojea, Cedar Crest College"Well conceived, with great documents included to support the focus piece."--M. Deborah Bialeschki, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"Excellent primary and secondary material, good for teaching politics, economics and culture of women in American history."--Rosalyn Baxandall, SUNY at Old Westbury"Richer and far more poignant than other texts. Better suited to my course which compares European and US women's experience."--Deb Symonds, Drake University"Wonderful book! We learned a lot from it!"--Helena Czosnyka, St. Louis College of Pharmacy"A grand collection of essays and resources."--pamela Laird, University of Colorado at Denver"From the new cover picture of Wasps to the inclusion of women challenging feminism, this Fourth Edition makes a superb teaching instrument even better!"--Norma Mitchell, Troy State University"Great new edition!"--Debra O'Neal, CalState-Fullerton
About the Author:
Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Iowa. She is the author of several books, including No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies (1999) and Toward an Intellectual History of Women (1997). She has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Studies Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jane Sherron De Hart is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Co-author of Sex, Gender, and ERA: A State and the Nation (OUP, 1990), and winner of the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck Award (1991), she specializes in twentieth-century issues of gender, politics, and policy. She is currently completing a study of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that blends biography and legal history.
Cornelia Hughes Dayton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. The author of Women Before the Bar (1995), she is currently writing a book about the life stories of those with mental disorders and their caretakers in eighteenth-century America. She recently launched a new website supplementing her essay "Taking the Trade" about a 1740s abortion trial.
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