In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice Against Women - Tapa dura

"Anyone wishing to understand the overwhelming challenges faced by women's-rights activists from the movement's earliest days to the dawn of the Second Wave need look no further than Joshi's illuminating, and downright infuriating, examples of pervasively misogynistic thinking."
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"Reading these exposés is an eye opening look into the mindset and roots of this ancient bias; they show how very far we have come in some ways...and also demonstrate how far this conservative culture has to go before true equality may be realized."

Monsters and Critics.com

Collects source documents from American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that demonstrate prejudice against women in sex, marriage, education, the workplace, arts and sciences, and political engagement.