Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Volume 1, From the Sixteenth Century to 1865 (v. 1)
by Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker
Category: History

"Here are women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims. In diaries, letters, speeches, songs, petitions, essays, photographs, and cartoons they describe, rejoice, exhort, complain, advertise, and joke, revealing women's role as community builders in every time and locale and registering their emergence into the public spheres of political, social, and economic life. The documents also demonstrate the value of gender analysis, for women's differences--in age, race, sexual orientation, class, geographical or ethnic origin, abilities or disabilities, and values--are shown to be as important as their commonalities."--Book cover.