As a primary text for courses covering the history of women in the United States, the second half of the U.S. survey, twentieth-century U.S. history, or as a supplement to a variety of sociology and political science courses, Professor Banner’s book provides both pictorial and textual documentation of women’s roles in the United States from 1890 to the present. Banner delineates three goals in her approach: to explore the reasons why feminism rose and fell and rose … More >>
Women in Modern America: A Brief History
The book, Women in Modern America objective succeeds early on in its presentation. The countless documented cases and events seem to support the Authors view. Women endured an unbelievable amount of suffrage and bias from men and even women sometimes. From education, the right to decide where to live, property rights, voting rights, motherhood, and aging women experienced tremendous suffrage. And the Heroines, not all women suffered. And those in the 1920s revealed much about attitudes towards women.
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