Voices of American Women's History from Reconstruction to the... - 9781440872464

Voices of American Women's History from Reconstruction to the PresentContemporary Accounts of Daily Life\nAuthor(s): Kristine Ashton Gunnell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781440872464, 978-1440872464\nSynopsis\nThis collection of historical and contemporary writing by women argues that, in addition to gender, identity markers such as race, class, religion, citizenship, sexuality, and marital status have influenced womens lives in the United States for more than 200 years.\n\nVoices of American Women's History illustrates that gender alone has never defined women's experiences in America. Women from diverse backgrounds are represented in media and documents that include pamphlets, book excerpts, personal narratives, photographs, advertisements, congressional testimonies, and Supreme Court rulings. Such issues as abortion, marriage equality, domestic violence, and gender parity are shown from historical .