Woman

The American History of an Idea

Woman
Lillian Faderman
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Hardback
h24 x 16mm - 600pg
10 May 2022 US
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9780300249903
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A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century "Lillian Faderman' s is a book many of us have been waiting for, the first comprehensive history of American women to capture the rich discoveries that have been made over the last half century, juxtaposing the abstraction of ' woman' with the range, resilience, and resistance of real women. "-Ellen Carol DuBois, author of Suffrage: Women' s Long Battle for the Vote What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God' s plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement. This wide-ranging 400-year history chronicles conflicts, retreats, defeats, and hard-won victories in both the private and the public sectors and shines a light on the often-overlooked battles of enslaved women and women leaders in tribal nations. Noting that every attempt to cement a particular definition of "woman" has been met with resistance, Faderman also shows that successful challenges to the status quo are often short-lived. As she underlines, the idea of womanhood in America continues to be contested.
"An ambitious attempt to delineate nothing less than the changing state of being female in this country over the past four centuries. Woman is exhaustively researched and finely written. "-Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times "Lillian Faderman' s is a book many of us have been waiting for, the first comprehensive history of American women to capture the rich discoveries that have been made over the last half century, juxtaposing the abstraction of ' woman' with the range, resilience, and resistance of real women. "-Ellen Carol DuBois, author of Suffrage: Women' s Long Battle for the Vote "A rewarding read. Pioneering scholar Lillian Faderman illuminates how concepts of female difference and inferiority stubbornly persist and captures the ongoing struggles of women to free themselves from the idea of ' woman. ' "-Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania "A sweeping history of conceptions of women by themselves and others told through fascinating stories that get the reader to turn the page. "-Claudia Goldin, author of Career and Family: Women' s Century-Long Journey toward Equity "A wide-ranging, deeply researched, and very well written survey of how the idea of woman has been deployed over more than three centuries of American history. "-Susan Ware, author of Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote "With dazzling scholarship and monumental vision Faderman has, with illuminating detail and persuasive argument, brilliantly woven a rich tapestry of how the American ' woman' has been created and re-created over centuries. "-Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States
Lillian Faderman is professor emerita at California State University, Fresno. Her books on the history of gender and sexuality have won numerous prizes, including seven Lambda Literary Awards, two Stonewall Book Awards, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. She lives in La Jolla, CA.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780300249903
Published: 10 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 24mm
Width: 16mm
Pages: 600

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