‘Woman’ Is An Ambitious Attempt To Capture Four Centuries of Being
womanAmerican History of an Ideaby Lillian Fadermanillustrated. 571 pages. Yale University Press. $32.50. We’ve come a long way, baby. Maybe? This is the general sentiment evoked in Lillian Faderman’s “Woman: An American History of an Idea,” an ambitious attempt to describe the changing state of being a woman in this country over the past four …
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