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  1. Women's America: Refocusing the Past
    Women's America: Refocusing the Past
  2. The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930
    The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930
  3. Living with Nietzsche: What the Great Immoralist Has to Teach Us
    Living with Nietzsche: What the Great Immoralist Has to Teach Us
  4. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
    Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
  5. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960's
    America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960's
  6. Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture
    Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture
  7. Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860
    Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860
  8. The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831
    The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831
  9. Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960
    Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960
  10. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society and Politics in Colonial America
    Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society and Politics in Colonial America
  11. American Legal History: Cases and Materials
    American Legal History: Cases and Materials
  12. Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
    Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
  13. Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India
    Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India
  14. Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction
    Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction
  15. Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in New York City, 1624-1783
    Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in New York City, 1624-1783
  16. Different Drummers: Jazz and Culture in Nazi Germany
    Different Drummers: Jazz and Culture in Nazi Germany
  17. Mussolini
    Mussolini
  18. Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America
    Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America
  19. Augustan Succession, The: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books, 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14) (American Philological Association American Classical Studies S.)
    Augustan Succession, The: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books, 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14) (American Philological Association American Classical Studies S.)
  20. Modern Middle East: A History
    Modern Middle East: A History
  21. The Modern Middle East: A History
    The Modern Middle East: A History
  22. A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
    A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
  23. A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1880-1960
    A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1880-1960
  24. Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua (Oxford Monographs on Music)
    Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua (Oxford Monographs on Music)
  25. The Ramayana Revisited
    The Ramayana Revisited
Women's America: Refocusing the Past
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • The Best Textbook I've Ever Read
  • A wonderful introduction to U.S. Women's History
  • A Biased Book
 Women's America: Refocusing the Past
Linda K. Kerber , and Jane Sherron De Hart
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0195159829

Book Description

With its mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America has long been an invaluable resource. This sixth edition provides extensive coverage of recent events in American women's history, adds several new selections from leading theorists and historians, and restores several readings that were cut from the fifth edition.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The Best Textbook I've Ever Read.......2006-04-30

I originally purchased this book for a college course; now it sits on my bookshelf, never to be resold. I rarely have enjoyed reading for my classes, but this book not only captures the heart of the female struggles throughout history--it gives examples of the women who lived them.

This book presents the reader with an in-depth analysis of women's traditional roles and their active fight for change while explaining the conditions that determined the feminine experience in different historical periods. But the best benefit of the book was actually learning, and realizing, that the world that my generation (the 20 somethings) was born into is radically different from that of females 50, 40, 30, 20, and even 10 years before us. I realize now that many freedoms I take for granted should be cherished, and more freedoms should be fought for.

5 out of 5 stars A wonderful introduction to U.S. Women's History.......2001-02-16

I have used various editions of this book for the past four years in teaching a women's history course at a college-preparatory, single-sex independent high school. I have found this to be an incredibly complete anthology and the new edition is even better than the previous ones. My only complaint about the new edition is that the editors -- both renowned historians in the field -- on a few occasions shortened the articles to the point that the context needed to understand them was missing. However, because of the brevity of the articles, it is the perfect anthology for an introductory course.

3 out of 5 stars A Biased Book.......2000-03-30

Rationale for the three star rating: I would give this book a "one." However, I think that women's history buffs would give it a "four" or "five". I read this for a class, and found it dull and very biased (I AM female, in fact, I used to attend a women's college. I am PRO women and their acheivements. However...) Though i don't think it was the intent of the book, I grew to dislike government programs and all this "rah rah" jazz women have done in the last century which often accomplished little. I want to know when people are going to start taking responsibility for their own lives instead of expecting society to change or be chaged for them- in their lifetimes, no less. Many movements were admirable, thank goodness we have the vote today! But every article seems to have a very biased attitude (to the liberal persuasion) and I personally would like to see a more neutral tone. BUT I realize that this is not a concern of many people who read women's history and have a great interest in these articles that are, by nature, slanted one way. This is a good text for those looking to confirm their owm points of view. I PERSONALLY would like to see a more well-rounded approach. But find out for yourselves!
Women's America: Refocusing the Past
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    		Women's America: Refocusing the Past
    Linda K. Kerber Jane Sherron De Hart
    Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: B000OKLJA6
    Women's America: Refocusing the Past
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      		Women's America: Refocusing the Past

      Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover

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      Women's America : Refocusing the Past
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        		Women's America : Refocusing the Past
        Jane Sherron; Kerber, Linda K De Hart
        Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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        Binding: Paperback
        ASIN: B000OKMRFW
        Women's America Refocusing the Past
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          		Women's America Refocusing the Past
          Linda K Kerber Jane De Hart-Mathews
          Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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          Binding: Paperback
          ASIN: B000OKMRRU
          Women's America: Refocusing the Past
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            		Women's America: Refocusing the Past
            Linda K. And Jane De Hart Mathews Kerber
            Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Paperback
            ASIN: B000OKEL3I
            Women's America. Refocusing the Past. Second Edition
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              		Women's America. Refocusing the Past. Second Edition
              Linda K. & Hart-Mathews, Jane De Kerber
              Manufacturer: Oxford University Press.
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback
              ASIN: B000NCU3P2
              Women's America: Refocusing the Past. Second Edition.
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                		Women's America: Refocusing the Past. Second Edition.
                Linda K.; Jane De Hart-Mathews [editors] Kerber
                Manufacturer: NY: Oxford University Press
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Paperback
                ASIN: B000NWZTDS

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