Three decades of women’s history in the United States

precedessors) I was a member of the generation that laid the basis for this tremendous scholarly development. We were a small cohort who wrote our doctoral theses in the 1970s on of the history of women in the U.S. We had some antecedents among historians in the 1920s and 1930s, who were themselves writingin the immediate aftermath of what is called the “first wave of feminism.” They left us studies on the female labor force, for instance, and on the achievement of woman suffrage. [[The most important of these was