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America Through Women's Eyes
Mary Beard's creative interpretation, from excerpts and journals, of what America meant to its women from earliest times.
558 pages, Library Binding
First published April 19, 1969
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Mary Ritter Beard
62 books7 followersNorthern capitalists perpetrated the Civil War as the "second American Revolution" over southern plantation owners for economic gain; historian and feminist Mary Ritter Beard shared view of Charles Austin Beard, her husband, and collaborated on first volume in 1927 of
The Rise of American Civilization
, which so characterized.
Mary Ritter Beard, an archivist, played an important role in the suffrage movement of women as a lifelong advocate of social justice through educational and activist roles in the labor and rights. She wrote or edited several books, including On Understanding Women in 1931, America through Women's Eyes in 1933, and Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities in 1946, on their role. She added eminently on several most notable distinguished works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ri...
Mary Ritter Beard, an archivist, played an important role in the suffrage movement of women as a lifelong advocate of social justice through educational and activist roles in the labor and rights. She wrote or edited several books, including On Understanding Women in 1931, America through Women's Eyes in 1933, and Woman as Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities in 1946, on their role. She added eminently on several most notable distinguished works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ri...
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July 21, 2019
America Through Women’s Eyes by Mary R. Beard, is both inspiring and provocative. It left me feeling like I was reading about an alternative reality that amplified the role of women, articulating a relationship between men and women that seems persistent. Many of the essays felt oddly contemporary as if they could be written today. I was left with a sense that the status of women in relationship to men has changed very little.
The context challenged my traditional view of women’s studies as a steady progression of expanding rights and opportunities for women. The stories portrayed women as the denizens of humanity and social order but also illustrated that some women have always held a place in the upper echelons of wealth and influence. It reinforced my own conclusions that the principal failure of the women’s movement is fundamentally a failure to establish a social priority for the things women do.
The breath of our perspective depends on how close we are to the peep-hole of historic vision. This book has brought me closer to that portal, expanding my view of the complex socioeconomic relationship that exists between men and women with an enduring quality that we may not choose to acknowledge.
The context challenged my traditional view of women’s studies as a steady progression of expanding rights and opportunities for women. The stories portrayed women as the denizens of humanity and social order but also illustrated that some women have always held a place in the upper echelons of wealth and influence. It reinforced my own conclusions that the principal failure of the women’s movement is fundamentally a failure to establish a social priority for the things women do.
The breath of our perspective depends on how close we are to the peep-hole of historic vision. This book has brought me closer to that portal, expanding my view of the complex socioeconomic relationship that exists between men and women with an enduring quality that we may not choose to acknowledge.
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