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America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.

Told chronologically through the compelling stories of individual lives that, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience, America's Women is both a great read and a landmark work of history.

"Collins's work is a fully accessible, and thoroughly enjoyable, primer of how American women have not only survived but thrived."

Publishers Weekly, 08/11/2003

"In a deft and entertaining work of historical synthesis, Ms. Collins draws on the new literature of American women's history to weave a rich narrative of four centuries worth of women's experiences, one that challenges conventional assumptions about the past and forces readers to think in new ways not just about women but about who we are as a nation and how we came to be."

Ellen Chesler, New York Times, 10/08/2003

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