Susan Ware, Author Yale University Press $27 (342p) ISBN 978-0-300-04621-2
In this life of neglected New Deal politician Molly Dewson, the author ``makes a useful contribution to the history of American women's struggle for equality. . . . Ware's spotlight on Dewson widens to disclose wonderfully human views of FDR and...
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Susan Ware, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-393-04652-6
Ware here gives a feminist reading to the lives of seven 20th-century women, all of whom embodied feminism yet did not espouse it: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, journalist Dorothy Thompson, anthropologist Margaret Mead, actress Katharine Hepburn,...
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Susan Ware, Author Yale University Press $47 (342p) ISBN 978-0-300-03820-0
In this life of a neglected figure of Depression Era feminism, New York University historian Ware makes a useful contribution to the history of American women's struggle for equality. Molly Dewson, longtime companion of influential feminist Polly...
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Susan Ware, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-03551-3
Basing her analysis of early 20th-century feminism on aviator Amelia Earhart, Ware's interesting, innovative portrait initially becomes mired in biographical information. After building a historical framework, however, the author moves efficiently...
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Susan Ware. Belknap, $26.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-674-98668-8
Historian and biographer Ware (American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction) crafts a smart, eclectic collection of 19 mini-biographies of Americans who worked for women’s suffrage. Ware’s take is fresh; she includes subjects in less-discussed
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