By Lynn Weiner

during this clean viewpoint on one of many significant demographic tendencies in our historical past, Weiner skillfully interweaves proof on women's employment, govt social coverage, and the modern debate approximately women's sphere to discover the interconnections among styles of women's paintings and the ideologies that arose in accordance with that paintings. In uniting the assets and techniques of social and highbrow background, the writer illuminates the alterations in women's lives in the past 250 years.

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