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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

Book by Gail Collins · 4 quotes · Abolition, Women, America

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“The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.”