Women&amer Experience

by Nancy Woloch

Book Overview

This comprehensive synthesis of women's history from the 17th century to the present draws on the past three decades of scholarship in the field. Its unique paired-chapter format couples a narrative "episode" that vividly evokes a particular individual or event with a synthesis chapter that places each episode carefully within its broader historical context. This pairing of the concrete and specific with the general and historic creates the most compelling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394535154
• ISBN13: 9780394535159
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 567 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A good reference

Read this book for my women's history class. I found it to be alot like Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States - good material you can't find anywhere else, but quite skewed to one perspective.

Surprisingly Pleasant Read!

I had to read this book for a history course, and I was prepared for another dry, dusty history tome. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book was not dry and dusty! It is packed with incredible information about women from all walks of life, including personal stories about hardship and tragedy. It really gave me a new appreciation for the feminine struggle for equality and civil rights.

An engaging, well-balanced window on women's history

I have been using this text for several years with adult students of American women's history. They have found it very readable -- thorough, well-balanced, and engaging. Woloch pairs chapters so that the first chapter in each pair gives a close-up view of a person or event, and the following chapter presents the social, cultural and economic context for that close-up view. In this way, we have a chance both to experience "up close and personal" glimpses of history and to gain deeper, more multi-facted historical awareness. Woloch's voice is precise and well-measured, but not without vitality and humor. Her book provides a wonderfully comprehensive and comprehensible overview of the history of women in America.