WomenS History for Beginners (okładka  miękka, wyd. 02.2012)

Women`s History For Beginners offers a lively, revealing, and provocative overview of this important (and controversial) academic field. Who are the great women of history, and why don`t we know more about them? You don`t need to be a scholar to notice that men`s history dominates everything we learn in school; yet a quick tour of the past reveals dynamic female role models at every turn. This is more than an introduction to women`s roles and contributions across time. It also examines the ways that women in all societies have been ruled by men, according to law and custom. Women`s History For Beginners opens with a critical investigation of why so few of us are exposed to women`s history in our years of schooling--and why educators and political groups remain leery of bringing fair, accurate women`s history content into the classroom even now. It concludes with the reminder that women, too, are divided by race and class and nationality; that there is no one-size-fits-all women`s history but many different versions, each worthy of investigation and understanding.