ABSTRACT
Historians have only recently begun teaching and studying the history of women in a systematic way. As late as 1967 a widely used textbook in American history, The United States by Richard Hofstadter, William Miller, and Daniel Aaron (second edition, Prentice-Hall, 1967), devoted only two pages of its 900 to women's history. These two pages summarized the campaign for female suffrage. Other texts of the same era were rather more generous, but even they limited their treatment of U.S. women to short discussions of women in factory labor, female participation in nineteenthcentury reform movements, and, of course, women's suffrage. The situation was little different in European history. An influential survey, The European World by Jerome Blum, Rondo Cameron, and Thomas J. Barnes (Harper & Row, 1966), included only two references to women in its index, both very brief mentions of women's suffrage. Lecturers did not discuss women with their college classes, nor were there many histories of women's experience for these lecturers to draw on, had they wished to inform themselves and their students about it.
