Making Women's History

"Mary Ritter Beard was the single most important advocate and practioner of women's history...She virtually invented the field, " said historian and professor Barbara Sicherman of this visionary and ground breaking historian who devoted her life to reconstructing women's past -- a past that had remained largely unstudied, undocumented, and unacknowledged. With this essential -- and accessible -- from her writings and speeches, Ann J. Lane restores Beard to her well-deserved place at the core of early twentieth century feminist history and theory.