America's Women
by:
Gail Collins (author)
Although it's a cultural history of women in America since the first European settlers, America's Women possesses none of the stodginess or predictability of such chronicles. Former New York Times editorial writer Collins has a keen sense of her subject's richness. The author of Scorpion Tongues...
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Although it's a cultural history of women in America since the first European settlers, America's Women possesses none of the stodginess or predictability of such chronicles. Former New York Times editorial writer Collins has a keen sense of her subject's richness. The author of Scorpion Tongues moves from everyday details to social generalization without sacrificing the thrust of her narrative or her central theme: "the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it."
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061739224 (0061739227)
Publish date: October 13th 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 608
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Feminism,
Politics,
American History,
Sociology,
Womens,
Gender,
Gender Studies,
Womens Studies
Needs to be read in history classes.
I took a survey pair of classes in college called History of Women in the U.S., and they were two of my favorite college classes of all time. I had always had a love-hate relationship with history. Some of it is so fascinating, and it is always interesting to me to see how current culture and poli...
A run through women's history in the United States since the first arrivals. Interesting information, which has created a need for me to investigate further. A great starting point for an overall view of early women's history in the U.S.
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