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Second to none : a documentary history of American women

"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
Print Book, English, ©1993
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln [Neb.], ©1993
History
2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780803231658, 9780803281998, 9780803231665, 9780803282049, 0803231652, 0803281994, 0803231660, 0803282044
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v. 1. From the sixteenth century to 1865. Cultures collide, 1540-1700: First Americans ; Building colonies north and south ; Enterprising women
The eighteenth century: My time is not my own ; Changing identities ; Revolutionary days ; After the storm
The nineteenth century: Home and marketplace ; Women's sphere ; Expanding horizons ; Enslavement and abolition ; An uprooted people: Native Americans ; Emigrants and immigrants ; Civil War
v. 2. From 1865 to the present. The later nineteenth century, 1865-1900: Equal rights ; Strategies for achievement
The early twentieth century, 1900-1930: Shaping a new century ; Good times
The mid-twentieth century, 1930-1960: Hard times ; Wartime amazons ; Peacetime angels
The later twentieth century, 1960-1993: Stirring up the pot ; Toward the next millennium