No Small Courage : A History of Women in the United States

Charts Amer. women's lives & experiences from the pre-colonial era to the present. Individual stories & primary sources -- incl. letters, diaries, & news reports -- animate this history of the domestic, prof'l., & political efforts of Amer. women. Leading historians illuminate subsequent periods of social & political change -- incl. Jane Kamensky on women's lives in the colonial period, Karen Manners Smith on the rising tide of political activity by women in the Progressive Era, Sara Deutsch on the transition of 1920s optimism to the harsh realities of the Great Depression, Elaine May on the challenges to a gender-defined social order encouraged by WW2, & William Chafe on the women's movement. & the struggle for political equality since the 1960s. Illustrations.Cott, Nancy F. is the author of 'No Small Courage : A History of Women in the United States', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422352540 and ISBN 1422352544.