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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.) by Gail Collins is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.) about?
A landmark work of history telling the story of more than four centuries of history featuring a stunning array of personalities. 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
Who reads America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gail Collins
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060959814
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Memoir, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (2,941 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.) (2004)
- America's Women : Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (2003)
- America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (2004)
- AMERICA’S WOMEN 400 YEARS OF DOLLS DRUDGES HELPMATES AND HEROINES GAIL COLLINS (2003)
- America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.) (2014)
- AMERICA’S WOMEN 400 YEARS OF DOLLS DRUDGES HELPMATES AND HEROINES GAIL COLLINS (1800)