The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in HistoryUNC Press Books, 30. 3. 2014 - 208 strán (strany) Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women's history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women's history following its publication in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber, introducing a new generation of readers to Gerda Lerner's considerable body of work and highlighting the importance of the essays in this collection to the development of the field that Lerner helped establish. |
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1 New Approaches to the Study of Women in American History | 1 |
Changes in the Status of Women in the Age of Jackson | 10 |
A Second Look | 22 |
4 Womens Rights and American Feminism | 36 |
A Problem in Historiography and Interpretation | 48 |
6 Community Work of Black Club Women | 64 |
7 Black and White Women in Interaction and Confrontation | 73 |
8 The Political Activities of Antislavery Women | 88 |
9 Just a Housewife | 102 |
Definitions and Challenges | 115 |
11 The Majority Finds Its Past | 127 |
12 The Challenge of Womens History | 133 |
Notes | 145 |
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