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Title: BORN FOR LIBERTY by Sara Evans ISBN: 0-684-83498-7 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 22 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid rediting of first edition
Comment: This edition of the text is an improvement on the first edition in its movement away from the east-coast view of women's history and a move towards a more inclusive analysis. As to the lack of definition of such terms as "oppression", as alluded to in another critique of the text, one is tempted to answer "I know it when I see it...," postmodernism just being the latest form of academic "oppression." Clearly Sara Evans is an outstanding practioner of history and one whom understands the skill of an historian's work. How easy it is to criticize that which you know so very little about.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful look at Women's History
Comment: I enjoyed reading Evans look a the history of Women in the U.S. From it's beginnings in the colonial times, through the suffrage movement up to the 80's. It's a wonderful look at part of our history that is ignored in most texts. Highly recommend for any student of women's history!
Rating: 2
Summary: PRESUMTIOUS PRECEPT
Comment: Its title claims a broad accomplishment, an "all your answers are here" assertion. Although it presents hundreds of historical figures, it is quickly evident that by "History of Women," the author means "The Plight of Women and What Their Heroes Have Done About It." The narrative embraces the concept that from this county's origin to the present, women are victims of misogyny, but that there are several heroes of the struggle. Despite the decline in feminist momentum, there nevertheless seems to be a wealth of "historical" readings recently published by feminists. A critique of feminism's tenants will not be attempted with this review, but it seems pressing to take issue with the didactic narratives of "historical" texts such as Born for Liberty. Exempt from their presentations is a clear discussion of three essential components: definitions of the terms "oppression" and "liberty," and the ideologies that steer their metanarratives in the name of "history." The exemption of these elements does not allow for rhetorical inquiry, which is vital for the veracity of the texts' contents. Feminist history, arguably a genre of its own, credulously seeks to convert its readers on the pretense that there is a universal understanding of what it means to be oppressed and liberated. Once readers naively embrace this pretense, they are prone to also believing the tenants of feminism. Perhaps, then, the narrative of Born for Liberty will successfully promote the feminist agenda, but its converts will have naively succumbed to the same tactics of hierarchical propaganda that it claims to abhor.
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Title: Unequal Sisters: A Mulicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History by Vicki Ruiz, Ellen Carol Dubois ISBN: 0415925177 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Major Problems in American Women's History : Documents and Essays by Thomas Paterson, Mary Beth Norton, Ruth M. Alexander ISBN: 0618122192 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 12 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $41.96 |
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Title: Women's America: Refocusing the Past by Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart ISBN: 0195121813 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America by Ruth Rosen ISBN: 0140097198 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs ISBN: 0486419312 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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