Making Women's History

The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

Author: Mary Ritter Beard
Secondary Author: Ann J. Lane
ISBN: 9781558612198

Mary Ritter Beard was the single most important advocate and practioner of women's history...She virtually invented the field, said historian and professor Barbara Sicherman of this visionary and ground-breaking historian who devoted her life to reconstructing women's past--a past that had remained largely unstudied, undocumented, and unacknowledged. Beard held a firm conviction that women had a far greater impact on history than male historians had ever recognized and she believed that a knowledge of their own history would enable women to realize their full potential as active members of society. With this essential--and accessible--selection from her writings and speeches, Ann J. Lane restores Beard to her well-deserved place at the core of early-twentieth-century feminist history and theory. Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958) was co-author, with Charles Beard, of The Rise of American Civilization and author of many other books. Ann J. Lane is professor of history and director of women

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Publish Date: 1977

Subjects: Antiques & Collectibles / Americana, Biography & Autobiography / General, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: History)