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Title: The Female Experience: An American Documentary by Indianapol, Gerda Lerner ISBN: 0-672-51555-5 Publisher: Book World Promotions Pub. Date: January, 1979 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: an excellent anthology
Comment: The Female Experience is a marvelous anthology of women's voices in American history from the colonial period to the twentieth century. Most of the sources are short - no more than 6 pages in length, which lends itself well to "reading on the go." As a reviewer has earlier pointed out, women of all social strata are represented here, which is also a strength. However, I was dismayed by the fact that the vast majority of the selections are by whites - African - Americans, Asian - Americans, Native Americans and other groups are not well represented at all, which detracted from the book's merit as "the Female Experience." In spite of this minor point, it is fascinating reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Understanding modern women's history
Comment: This is an invaluable and concise introduction to the experiences of American women (across a class- but not a racial spectrum) as seen through their own testimony, from the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Well-known pioneers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Sanger) are represented as are unknown women. Though the emphasis is on nineteenth-century white women, their letters, articles, journal entries, and other writings resound with feelings and experiences from all aspects of life that offer much insight into the sources of our own dilemmas in the twenty-first century. Lerner's generous and incisive chapter introductions and her selection of sources is brilliant, and I intend to use this text in a college course focusing on issues in modern American women's history and literature. The entries are brief, for the most part, and lend themselves to the kind of sporadic pick-up "reading on the run," when you want something wonderful but only have a few minutes. However, Lerner's unifying commentary also makes the reading of larger chunks both possible and appropriate.
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Title: Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States by Eleanor Flexner, Ellen Fitzpatrick ISBN: 0674106539 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner ISBN: 0195051858 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Why History Matters: Life and Thought by Gerda Lerner ISBN: 0195122895 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Major Problems in American Women's History : Documents and Essays by Thomas Paterson, Mary Beth Norton, Ruth M. Alexander ISBN: 0618122192 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 12 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $41.96 |
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Title: The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner ISBN: 0195090608 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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