For the past twenty-five years, Estelle B. Freedman, a founder of the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University, has written about the history of women in the United States. Freedman is the author of two award-winning studies: Their Sisters’ Keepers: Women’s Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 and Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition. Freedman coauthored Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Professor Freedman lives in San Francisco.
“AN ASTONISHING FEAT, a comprehensive synthesis of a sprawling and
often contradictory body of thought and activism.”
–San Francisco Examiner
“A TOUR DE FORCE . . . THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK.”
–CATHARINE R. STIMPSON
University Professor
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science
New York University
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