In this lively and informed exploration of women’s lives in the larger context of U.S. social and political history, Rosalind Rosenberg shows how American traditions of federalism, racial and e
"With superb insight and erudition Rosenberg discerns the connections between social science and feminism which replaced the ideal of ?true womanhood’ with ?the new woman’ at the turn of the 20th cent
Surmounting a series of social and institutional obstacles to gain access to Columbia University, women played a key role in its evolution from a small, Protestant, male-dominated school into a renown
Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling the discrimination she faced to make America a more dem
