What Every American Should Know About Women's History: 200 Events That Shaped Our Destiny - Softcover

Lunardini, Christine A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155850687X ISBN 13: 9781558506879

Publisher: Adams Media Corp, 1996

Synopsis

Covers major events in American history in which women played significant roles and profiles such notable figures as Anne Hutchinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Betty Friedan

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Review:

Many books designed to pack your head with a few nuggets of wisdom are more annoying than interesting, but this one is very good. The usual standouts in American women's history appear--Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eleanor Roosevelt--but so do many lesser-known women. The book is organized largely around political and popular events driven by women or that affected women's lives. Stretching from 1607 through the early 1990s, it comprises preventing childbirth deaths; Victoria Woodhulls's run for president (in 1872); Dolores Huerta's efforts to help form the United Farm Worker's Union; and Maya Angelou's poem at President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration.

About the Author:

Christine Lunardini is the author of From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Women's Party, 1910-1928, and The ABC/Clio Companion to the American Peace Movement. Formerly, she taught women's history and American political history at Princeton University and Barnard College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Adams Media Corp
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 155850687X
• ISBN 13: 9781558506879
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 393