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Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Volume 2, from 1865 to the Present

Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Volume 2, from 1865 to the Present

Russett, Cynthia
Crumpacker, Laurie
Moynihan, Ruth Barnes

Paperback

General United States HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0803282044
ISBN13: 9780803282049
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jun 1 1994
Pages: 474
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
At the beginning of the twentieth century it was still necessary for women to ask lawmakers, Are women persons? The rights and treatment of women in their homes, workplaces, and government were issues that men in power often preferred to ignore. But women refused to remain silent. This volume of Second to None, like volume 1, presents a multiplicity of voices, demonstrating that there is not a representative American woman, but many women worth remembering.

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.

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