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*America's Women* tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.By culling the most fascinating characters -- the average as well as the celebrated -- Gail Collins, the editorial page editor at the *New York Times,* charts a journey that shows how women lived, what they cared about, and how they felt about marriage, sex, and work. She begins with the lost colony of Roanoke and the early southern "tobacco brides" who came looking for a husband and sometimes -- thanks to the stupendously high mortality rate -- wound up marrying their way through three or four. Spanning wars, the pioneering days, the fight for suffrage, the Depression, the era of Rosie the Riveter, the civil rights movement, and the feminist rebellion of the 1970s, *America's Women* describes the way women's lives were altered by dress fashions, medical advances, rules of hygiene, social th

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Author

Collins, Gail

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061227226

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Memoir, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (940 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14