"Ryan's elegant essays sketch a chronology of changing gender symbology and contribute to our understanding of the cultural construction of boundaries between public and private. Historians and feminists will pursue for some time her questions about the process and consequences of excluding women from the public arena and their striving for participation in it."--Lee Chambers-Schiller, American Historical Review."An extremely important contribution to women's history. It reminds us... that women's emergence in public life during the twentieth century continues to open up new political possibilities."--Ruth Rosen, Women's Review of Books.
The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History.
- ISBN10 0801839084
- ISBN13 9780801839085
- Publish Date 1 January 1990
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 March 1999
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English