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Woman : the American history of an idea

text Woman : the American history of an idea

Summary
What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God's plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the... Read more
Contents
Introduction: Tyranny and mutability in the idea of woman -- Woman in Seventeenth-century America -- Woman, lady, and not a woman in the eighteenth century -- Daughters of liberty: woman and a war of independence -- Woman enters the public sphere:... Read more
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571 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher
Yale University Press 2022

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 305.4 FAD in Adult Non-fiction Available

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