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Old 12-22-2007, 06:50 PM
 
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I like reading women's history. Isn't it time that bookstores begin having a women's history section? When I ask where the women's history is I get sent to gender studies (rarely do I find actual history there) or biographies (closer.)

A few of my favorites (found through the college library) are:

A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through
Food, Recipes, and Remembrances by Laura Schenone

Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870 by Sylvia Van Kirk

Cynthia Ann Parker: The Life and the Legend (Southwestern Studies) by Margaret Schmidt Hacker

Can anyone add to my list of reading material?
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Old 12-22-2007, 08:38 PM
 
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Yes, I'd love to add my favorite women's history book. I don't remember the author's name, but the title is "The Economic History of Women". It's a brilliant book about how American women contributed to our nation's economy throughout the centuries. Sadly, I believe it's out of print. But it's the best book on women's history I've ever read...and I was a women's studies major!
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Old 12-23-2007, 12:21 AM
 
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Yes, I'd love to add my favorite women's history book. I don't remember the author's name, but the title is "The Economic History of Women". It's a brilliant book about how American women contributed to our nation's economy throughout the centuries. Sadly, I believe it's out of print. But it's the best book on women's history I've ever read...and I was a women's studies major!
Sounds interesting - is the author Julie Matthaei - 1982? My college has a book called An economic history of women in America : women's work, the sexual division of labor, and the development of capitalism I did a paper on women and the Grange and this sounds like it would fit with that project.
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Old 12-23-2007, 07:50 AM
 
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Yes, you are correct on the author's name. It's an excellent book!
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Old 12-24-2007, 07:10 AM
 
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One of my favorite history biographies was a 2 volume set about Jennie Jerome Churchill by Ralph Martin. What a life she lead! Not many know that Winston Churchill's mom was a American.
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