Through Women's Eyes, Volume 1: To 1900 An American History with Documents

by DuBois, Ellen Carol; Dumenil, Lynn

• ISBN13: 9780312676063
• ISBN10: 0312676069
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-05
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Synthesizing the best and most current scholarship, Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documentsis a widely admired, ground-breaking text. The first to present a narrative of U.S. women's history within the context of the central developments of the United States and to integrate written and visual primary sources into each chapter through its signature docutext format, it is perfect for teaching history as a dynamic process of interpretation. With its focus on women from a broad range of ethnicities, classes, religions, and regions, Through Women's Eyesmore than ever helps students understand how women are an integral part of U.S. history.

Author Biography

 

Ellen Carol DuBois is Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. DuBois is the author of Feminism and Suffrage:  The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1969; Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Women’s Suffrage (winner of the 1998 Joan Kelly Price Award from the American Historical Association); and Woman Suffrage and Women’s Rights.  Her current women’s history work focuses on international feminist politics in the interwar years.

 

Lynn Dumenil is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. Dumenil has written The Modern Temper:  American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880-1930. She is editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History.