Mariner Books The reader's companion to u.s. women's history, paperback/gwendolyn mink

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The most inclusive book to date on U.

women's collective history! A landmark work, The Reader's Companion to U.

Women's History , gathers together more than 400 articles to offer a diverse, rich, and often neglected panorama of the nation's past.

Written by more than 300 contributors, drawn from various areas of expertise, these narrative and interpretive entries effectively cover five centuries of women's experiences (Bloomsbury Review).

Here are articles on cowgirls and child care, on the daily lives of single women and the changing notions of motherhood, on the artistic contributions of women of color and the history of Jewish feminism.

Wide-ranging in scope and wonderfully accessible, this unique resource reexamines with fresh clarity and brio the issues and concerns that color the lives of all women.

Articles and their contributors include: African American Women, Darlene Clark Hine; Cult of Domesticity, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg; Fashion and Style, Lynn Yaeger; Jazz and Blues, Daphne Duval Harrison; Lesbians, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy; Native American Cultures, Clara Sue Kidwell; Picture Brides, Judy Yung; Salem Witchcraft Trials, Mary Beth Norton; Vietnam Era, Sara M.

Evans.