Three decades of women’s history in the United States

THREE DECADES OF WOMEN’S HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW WITH A TOUCH OF PROGRAMMATIC PROUNCEMENT

Modern women’s history in the United States is just about three decades old. This is long enough for major changes and what I would regard as near full disciplinary normalization. But it is an amazingly short time for the growth of the field from virtually nothing to one of the strongest and most creative fields of historical practice in the United States, and one that has had a tremendous impact on the larger history of the United States.

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