Women's Wisconsin.(Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium)(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Wisconsin Bookwatch | Date: November 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Women's Wisconsin

Genevieve G. McBride, editor

Wisconsin Historical Society

c/o University of Wisconsin Press

1930 Monroe Street, Third Floor, Madison, WI 53711-2059

www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress

0870203614 $37.95, 1-800-621-2736

Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies To The New Millennium is an anthology of essays by learned historians as well as primary sources such as letters, reminiscences, oral histories, articles and more previously published over numerous decades in the "Wisconsin ...

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