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America's Women : Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Collins, Gail is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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...

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Collins, Gail
Publisher
Perennial : Harper Collins
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780060959814
Category
history
Subjects
Gender Studies, Memoir, Fiction
Rating
4.15 / 5 (92 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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