Problems in American History

Major Problems in American Women’s History is a collection of documents and essays that are primarily about the role women took in American history. I was assigned to read chapter 14: Women and the Feminine Ideal in Postwar America, and chapter 15: Political Activism and Feminism in the 1960s and Early 1970s. Chapter 14 was compiled of six documents and three essays. All of which describes the atmosphere and obstacles women in the postwar era had to …

…I didn’t really learn anything knew in these two chapters. They basically reinforced the information I’ve already learned in class. Also, most of it was opinion. Most of the documents and essays talked about how different peopled viewed the same issues and how they felt about them. In these chapters, there isn’t a sufficient amount of facts and information. The only information that is given is given to back up ones opinion.