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Professor Kathy Peiss: Feminism and Women's History
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Kathy Peiss, professor of history at the
University of Pennsylvania, praises the Enterprising Women:250
Years of American Business exhibition for vividly recognizing
a group of American women entrepreneurs whose history, until recently,
was little known. “What took us so long?” asks Professor
Peiss. Only in the last ten to fifteen years have post-1960 feminist
historians focused in-depth on women in business. Times do change,
notes Professor Peiss, and women historians are now interested in
entrepreneurial women.
Using examples from the exhibition, Professor Peiss looks at the difference
that women have made, not only in American history, but in the history
of women. The stories of women in the Enterprising Women
exhibition tell us about their independence, wit, and resourcefulness—and
about the fragility of their hard-won victories. The exhibition makes
clear how much the biographies of women and their businesses are interwoven
with larger currents of American history. |
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