Women's America: Refocusing the Past: 2 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195388348 ISBN 13: 9780195388343

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 2010

Synopsis

Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its seventh edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history.

About this title

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, includingNo 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 ofSex, 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 ofWomen 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0195388348
• ISBN 13: 9780195388343
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Kerber Linda K., De Hart Jane Sherron, Dayton Cornelia Hughes