- Title: Born for Liberty A History of Women in America
- Author: Sara M. Evans
- Year Published: 1989 (The Free Press)
- Year Purchased: 2001/2002
- Source: Unknown
- About: An intelligent, critical study of the changing nature of women’s place in American society.
- Motivation: I’m a feminist who enjoys a good, solid read on the subject.
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- Times Read: 2
- Random Excerpt/Page 85: “By the 1830s the social worlds occupied by the genteel and by the working classes were distinct and rarely overlapped. A lack of familiarity with one another’s cultural patterns-and with the circumstances that explained them-quickly evolved into suspicion or contempt. Middle-class reformers often viewed the lower classes as a breed apart, and readily condemned their ideas of domestic comfort and standards of morals far below their own.”
- Happiness Scale: 9
A Year in Books/Day 11: Born for Liberty
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