Mary Ritter Beard: A Sourcebook - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 155553029X ISBN 13: 9781555530297

Publisher: Northeastern University Press, 1988

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"Lane gives a succinct glimpse of Beard s life and thought, exemplified by well-chosen and telling passages from her writing and speeches. . . . Beard s basic message is still valid and still a challenge to women of today." "Choice Magazine""

"Lane gives a succinct glimpse of Beard's life and thought, exemplified by well-chosen and telling passages from her writing and speeches. . . . Beard's basic message is still valid and still a challenge to women of today." --Choice Magazine

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Mary Bitter Beard (1876--1958) can rightly be called the founding mother of the field of American women's history. A genuinely visionary thinker, Beard devoted her life to reconstructing women's past -- a past that had remained largely unstudied, undocumented, and unacknowledged before she began her ground-breaking work. She held a firm conviction that women had a far greater impact on history than male historians had ever recognised, and she believed that a knowledge of their own history would enable women to realise their full potential as active members of society and agents of social change. Ann Lane collects vital pieces from Mary Bitter Beard's work and accompanies each with a headnote tracing the development of Beard's thought and illuminating the contradictions as well as the perceptiveness of her work. First published as Mary Ritter Beard: A Sourcebook, the collection begins with a seventy-page critical and biographical essay that stands as the fullest account to date of the life of Mary Ritter Beard, and includes a new preface that assesses Beard's legacy and the continuing relevance of her work into the 21st century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155553029X
• ISBN 13: 9781555530297
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Lane Ann J.