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PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN WOMEN
FROM SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT |
| By: |
G. J. Barker-Benfield, Catherine Clinton |
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Paperback |
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195120485 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195120486 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1998 |
| Pages: |
624 |
| Description: |
In Portraits of American Women, editors G. J. Barker-Benfield and Catherine Clinton present twenty-five short essays on American women beginning with Pocahontas and ending with Betty Friedan.Focusing on women who have made significant contributions in the areas of art, literature, political engagement, educational activities, or reform movements, the portraits provide a vital perspective through which the great panorama of social change in the American past can be understood. |
| Synopsis: |
Until recently, the "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, editors G.J. Barker-Benfield and Catherine Clinton present twenty-five short essays on American women beginning with Pocahontas and ending with Betty Friedan. These essays aim to locate the histories of women and men together by period and to 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 women luminaries as Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Mead, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to name a few. Clearly women's lives provide a vital perspective through which the great panorama of social change in the American past can be understood.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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26 halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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