{"product_id":"the-female-experience-an-american-documentary","title":"The Female Experience: An American Documentary","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile womens experience encompasses all that is human  while women have participated in history and the making of history through all time  until very recently they have been largely excluded from the writing of that history. Most of what we know of the past experience of women comes to us largely through the distorting lens of mens reflections and observations. In the now classic The Female Experience  Gerda Lerner describes history as seen by women  as colored by their values. What she creates is fascinating narrative of the lives and history of ordinary women  a book that provides a new framework for the study of their past experience. If womens history is now a healthy and ever-growing discipline  we have in a large part this award-winning author to thank. Avoiding the traditional chronological periods by which U.S. history is most often studied  Lerner groups her sources--many taken from manuscripts previously unknown  and others only available in research libraries--according to the lifecycle of women  their roles in a male-defined society  in the workplace  in politics  and finally in the contemporary world where feminism is creating an altogether new consciousness. From \"runaway wives\" in eighteenth-century America  through an anonymous account of a mothers death during childbirth  to appeals in our century for freedom of sexual preference  The Female Experience recounts history from the womans point of view  and goes a long way toward reconstructing a female past and analyzing it with appropriate concepts. In the general introduction and chapter essays Lerner offers commentary that not only knits these disparate primary sources together  but also interprets them in an innovative way. Now brought up to date with a new preface  The Female Experience is a book that pulses with life  a stunning testament not only to the long-ignored role of women in society  but a pioneering effort to reinvent the way we look at history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963119628341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195072588","price":34.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195072587.jpg?v=1770407049","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-female-experience-an-american-documentary","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}