| Description |
824 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Young Adult. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [763]-802) and index. |
| Contents |
Forerunners : introduction / Alicia Ríos -- Foundations : introduction / Ana Del Sarto -- Practices : introduction / Abril Trigo -- Positions and polemics. |
| Summary |
"Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women's correspondences--often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington's portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK's assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, "Were you afraid?"" "The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women's lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby." "With more than 400 letters and over 100 photographs, Women's Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a testament to the women who lived - and made - history"--Inside front flap of book jacket. |
| Audience |
Young Adult. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Women -- United States -- Correspondence.
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Women -- United States -- History -- Pictorial works.
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American letters.
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United States -- History -- Sources.
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United States -- Social conditions -- Sources.
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United States -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Letters.
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Biography.
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| Added Author |
Grunwald, Lisa.
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Adler, Stephen J.
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| ISBN |
9780385335539 |
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0385335539 |
| Standard No. |
99810656241 |
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