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Cover Photo by Doug Farrell. Reprinted courtesy of the University of California at Santa Barbara Intercollegiate Athletics. Cover Design by Ed Atkesoniberg Design.
Women's America, now in its fifth edition, has been extensively revised and
contains 34 new selections including several original essays
written especially for this edition by leading U.S. historians
in the field. Successfully class-tested, these new essays
feature more material on anti-feminist women and the impact
of ethnicity in American culture. This new edition covers
such diverse groups as nuns in early Chicago, Native American
women on the Northwestern frontier, young Jewish labor organizers
in the garment industry in turn- of-the-cen tury New York,
interracial activists in the segregated South, and Chicana
feminists in the Southwest. The introductory and concluding
essays have been revised and the bibliography has been entirely
rewritten to take into account the growing body of recent
literature in the field. Women's America is an essential text
for courses in women's history and is a splendid supplement
for more general survey courses on American history.
"Gets better and better with each new edition. Broad
and deep, this rich selection of essays and primary documents
has uncommonly helpful headnotes. A teacher's dream."
-Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles
"The fields of women's history and gender studies are
some of the most dynamic areas of current research and scholarship.
Professors Kerber and De Hart have kept a pace with this evolution.
The fifth edition of Women's America, with over thirty new
essays and documents, reflects some of the most exciting work
in the field. Carefully selected primary documents give readers
a sense of the flesh and blood realities that have defined
the lives of women across racial, ethnic, regional, and class
lines for nearly four centuries. The perfect teaching tool."
-Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Kerber and De Hart have dramatically improved what was
already a very effective tool for introducing students to
American women's history. The fifth edition of Women's America
inte- grates the personal with the historical, captures the
voices and issues of women from a wide range of cultural and
social backgrounds, and brings their history to life. Presenting
some of the best writing in the field, it will stimulate lively
discussion and debate on gender and diver- sity issues, past
and present, and also add significantly to students' general
understanding of American history."
-Maureen Murphy Nutting, North Seattle Community College
"I have assigned every edition of Women's America since
the first, and this is without question the best."
-Daniel J. Wilson, Muhlenberg College
Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal
Arts and Professor of History at the University of Iowa. Her
most recent books are No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies:
Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (1998) and Toward
an Intellectual History of Women (1997). She has served as
President of the Organization of American Historians and the
American Studies Association. She is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jane Sherron De Hart
is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. Her most recent books include Sex, Gender and
the Politics of the ERA (OUP, 1991), which won the American
Political Science Association's 1991 Victoria Schuck Award,
and her forthcoming book, Defining America: Personal Politics
and the Politics of National Identity (2000).
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