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The American women's almanac : an inspiring and irreverent women's history

Author: Louise Bernikow; Philip Lief Group.; National Women's History Project.
Publisher: New York : Berkley Books, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Here is a new American history. It is full of charmers and cranks, visionaries and lost souls, and amazingly heroic women. The American Women's Almanac shows how women of all races have, individually and together, challenged injustice and pushed aside narrow definitions of womanhood. The only book of its kind, this engaging volume is based on nearly thirty years of new research in women's studies, spanning three
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Genre/Form: Miscellanea
Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Bernikow, Louise, 1940-
American women's almanac.
New York : Berkley Books, 1997
(OCoLC)629883014
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Louise Bernikow; Philip Lief Group.; National Women's History Project.
ISBN: 0425156869 9780425156865 0425156168 9780425156162
OCLC Number: 36017235
Notes: "Developed by the Philip Lief Group, Inc."
Description: x, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Louise Bernikow ; in association with the National Women's History Project.

Abstract:

Here is a new American history. It is full of charmers and cranks, visionaries and lost souls, and amazingly heroic women. The American Women's Almanac shows how women of all races have, individually and together, challenged injustice and pushed aside narrow definitions of womanhood. The only book of its kind, this engaging volume is based on nearly thirty years of new research in women's studies, spanning three centuries of women's history. Here are suffragists, labor.

organizers, trumpeters, sex radicals, singers, dancers, sculptors, architects - and especially bad girls and rebels. A provocative chronicle of women's road to freedom, accompanied by hundreds of illustrations and photographs that bring history to life, The American Women's Almanac shows just how far women have come.

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