The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman by Andrew Sinclair [FIRST EDITION] 1965

The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman by Andrew Sinclair 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1965] HARPER & ROW

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Beautiful near mint dust jacket with some very mild toning to rear; now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book looks and reads like new with a short but neat gift inscription to front endpaper.

Beautiful copy!

Winner of the 1965 Somerset Maugham Award.

The changing role and status of women in America from colonial times to the present, and the American woman's unrelenting struggle for complete equality with men are the major themes of this work. The works of leading feminists, suffragists, abolitionists, unionists, and temperance workers are explored.