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This 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 women’s lives in the United States for more than 200 years. Voices 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 and contemporary angles, as this collection of primary sources allows readers and students to easily trace how women's lives and histories have and continue to intersect. With a historical context for each selection, the book also features structured activities to help teachers with class discussion and exams, including suggestions for further reading, document analysis, essay questions, and manageable research assignments.

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Illustrates that gender alone does not define women's experiences in America, as race, religion, citizenship, sexuality, and other identities have historically shaped women's lives in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries

A valuable collection of primary source materials made accessible for high school and undergraduate students... an excellent resource from which instructors can pull lesson planning materials. * Choice *

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Kristine Ashton Gunnell is a research affiliate at UCLA's Center for the Study of Women and a visiting scholar at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, USA.

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