Woman: The American History of an Idea

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century

“Lillian Faderman's is a book many of us have been waiting for, the first comprehensive history of American women to capture the rich discoveries that have been made over the last half century, juxtaposing the abstraction of `woman' with the range, resilience, and resistance of real women.”-Ellen Carol DuBois, author of Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

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