num_pages: 544
description: This new edition of a widely-acclaimed anthology incoroprates the best of the extensive new scholarship in women's history with American history as a whole. Some sixty documents and articles, including essays written by the editors especially for this volume, are integrated within aninterpretative framework that demonstrates how biology (reproduction), economics, politics, and ideology interact in the rich, distinctive history of American women. This second edition demonstrates with new force and vigor why gender has become a powerful and useful analytical device for thoseseeking to understand the past and present.
language: English
title: Women's America: Refocusing the Past
titlecomplete: Women's America: Refocusing the Past
genres: Feminism, Historical, History, American History, Gender, Womens Studies, School, Politics, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 193
publisher: Oxford University Press