Sara M. Evans was born on December 2, 1943. She studied American history with an emphasis on women studies. She earned her degree at the University of North Carolina, and is now a Professor at the University of Minnesota. She teaches, or has taught, many courses including several History and History of Feminism courses. She has published 6 books on gender, social movements, and history. Four of her six books are about how women affected the growth of America. She goes in-depth in each of these books to show the reader her ideas. Evans focuses on gender, particularly female, she specializes in gender analysis, women's history and social movements. She believes that women helped to change and shape America just like men have. She wrote Born …show more content…
She tells about how women in the Native American culture had rights and duties equal in importance to the mens duties. Events and examples of women's influence on America are then shown up to the 21st century. There are chapters on many major events in American history that history books would often place the emphasis on men and their roles in the situation. Evans shows how women also influenced the outcome of these events. This book is intended to teach of women's history and show the role that women had in the unfolding of America and their fight for liberty. The book is set out in chronological order, starting with the first American women in the indian civilizations and going until the new century. It goes in depth on how women influenced major social changes that occurred in the history of America. It offers a section in the back with further reading including many books by a variety of authors on these events and women's …show more content…
It was well written and used a great deal of outside sources to prove its argument. The multiple sources used helps to validate her information because she has others that will support her views and that have written books on some of the same subjects that she is. Evans uses a fair amount of evidence in her book to convince the reader of her views that throughout the history of the United States, women helped to shape America. It focuses on the history of America and how women influenced the changes that occurred and some major events that happened. It would have been helpful for her to expand and show the influence that women had on the shaping of the world. There are several pictures and primary documents that are used throughout the book. Several books were used as resources while Evans was writing this book. The sources she used seemed to be well balanced, not leaning on one or two books
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence. By Carol Berkin (New York: Vintage Books, 2006). 194 pp. Reviewed by Melissa Velazquez, October 12, 2015.
Analytical Paper #1 There has been a drastic transformation in the importance of American women and their roles in the last four centuries. The freedom and equality that women possess today was not present in the 1600s. Americans viewed women as a minority and treated them with contempt. Unlike Americans, Native Indians treated their women and the colonial women they kidnapped with more respect, granting them with more pleasant and important tasks.
Have you ever wondered how women helped our country? There was and still are women who changed or change the world today. Like Shirley Muldowney,and Rose Will Monroe, or Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, maybe Hillary Clinton. Some of these women changed little things and some changed big things, but they all made a difference in their own way.
The United States has had a long relationship with the Haudenosaunee people. When Europeans invaded North America, beginning in the end of the 15th century, they found a land already inhabited by a large group of people, who they called Indians. Although their subsequent relationship was plagued by disease, wars and fights for domination, there was, inevitably, some exchange of goods, like crops, and ideas between the two peoples. Most notably, even the “Founding Fathers” of the U.S. were influenced by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s ideas about democracy and government. One aspect of the relationship, however, is rarely mentioned: the impact that Haudenosaunee women had on early feminists in the U.S. The two groups of women interacted very closely during the 19th century, and prominent feminist voices in the U.S., like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Lucretia Mott, were heavily influenced by the native women’s many freedoms.
Significantly, Welch deconstructs the myth that Plains Indian women were just slaves and beasts of burden and presents them as fully rounded women, women who were crucial to the survival of the tribal community. In fact, it is the women who perform the day-to-day duties and rituals that enable cultural survival for the tribes of...
For over centuries, society had established the societal standard of the women. This societal standard pictured the ideal American woman running the household and taking care of the children while her husband provided for the family. However, between 1770 and 1860, this societal standard began to tear at the seams. Throughout this time period, women began to search for a new ideal of American womanhood by questioning and breaking the barriers society had placed upon them.
In the book Women in the Civil War, by Mary Massey, the author tells about how American women had an impact on the Civil War. She mentioned quite a few famous and well-known women such as, Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton, who were nurses, and Pauline Cushman and Belle Boyd, who were spies. She also mentioned black abolitionists, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, feminist Susan B. Anthony, and many more women. Massey talks about how the concept of women changed as a result of the war. She informed the readers about the many accomplishments made by those women.
As many women took on a domestic role during this era, by the turn of the century women were certainly not strangers to the work force. As the developing American nation altered the lives of its citizens, both men and women found themselves struggling economically and migrated into cities to find work in the emerging industrialized labor movement . Ho...
Roberts says that if it weren’t for these women our lives today might very well be completely different then they are today. There still might have been poor and unsafe working conditions, unequal wages between men and women, and much more. These women were constantly fighting and influencing their husbands and important men around them to, as Abigail Adams said, “remember the ladies”. George Washington was a man that never forgot to recognize the ladies. Roberts provides a quote from George Washington where he is recognizing the men which we now call the Founding Fathers. He starts by giving credit to the men that formed our nation but also includes that the ladies played a huge role in shaping our country and they are the “best patriots America can boast”. Roberts concludes the book with that statement, which leaves the book at an ending that makes you stop and reflect on the real impact these women have had. Female activists were formed because of the bravery of these women and if it went for them, female activists might not have been as successful as they were. Roberts proves that these Founding Mothers were the foundation and stability behind our Founding
With the onset of the feminist movement, Lerner realized that most contribution to women’s history was not by historical scholars, but rather by feminist scholars. In her article, “New Approaches to the Study of Women,” she conceded that the feminist “frame of reference has become archaic and fairly useless.” She in turn posed new ways on how historians and students could broaden this scope—adding fresh approaches to already known material or diving into newly found primary sources. Lerner helped by acting as an organizer in Women’s History Sources, which made it possible to find primary sources that included women without the need to search through a woman’s male family. She also pointed to the Notable American Women sources, which included subject bibliographies. Additionally, Lerner believed the study of ‘women’ was too vast, that historians should notice the roles and status of women, and that we should see women as subjugated instead of oppressed. Also, Lerner noticed that women have by and large been deprived of equal education, as she noted in her article “A View from the Women’s Side.” She wrote that society had come far, noting that while 10.4% of women in the 50’s were awarded Ph. D degrees, by the early 1980’s women had been awarded 32.6% of Ph. D degrees. More so, she helped lobby for appointments of women to the A.H.A. and O.A.H.
Juliana Barr’s book, Peace Came in the Form of a Women: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. Dr. Barr, professor of history at Duke University-specializes in women’s role in American history. Peace Came in the Form of A Women, is an examination on the role of gender and kinship in the Texas territory during the colonial period. An important part of her book is Spanish settlers and slavery in their relationship with Natives in the region. Even though her book clearly places political, economic, and military power in the hands of Natives in the Texas borderland, her book details Spanish attempts to wrestle that power away from indigenous people through forced captivity of native women. For example, Dr, Barr wrote, “In varying diplomatic strategies, women were sometimes pawns, sometimes agents.” To put it another way, women were an important part of Apache, Wichita, and Comanche culture and Spanish settlers attempted to exploit
...r equality of women whose only representation at the time was through husbands. The brave few who courageously fought in the movement reformed our country and society today. Women such as Alice Paul and Susan B Anthony not only brought on equality for women today these women also brought on a new way women thought towards themselves. Today women think of themselves as independent smart citizens who can be whoever they want to be, politicians, doctors, scientists, etc. In addition women today can wear what they choose. Along with the right of equality and the ability for women to vote there is a responsibility, women should be informed of the political candidates before they vote. All of the freedom we have is a privilege we often take for granted as we don’t think about those women who suffered, abused, and ridiculed for these rights that we have today.
French, Katherine L., and Allyson M. Poska. Women and Gender in the Western past. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Print.
...and that this would improve society. The role of this book was to help women shape the way women are in society for many generations.
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