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I thoroughly enjoyed this reading.  I particularly liked how class and race were emphasized in all four of the essays.  The essay by Gisela Bock was interesting and raised a lot of questions.  A question I have is how each of the dichotomies she listed are specifically present today and how much of an impact they currently have on the writing of women's history? -abratchi


I liked a lot of the points raised by Leslie M. Alexander.  Her emphasis on the black woman and her tie to the community was interesting.  A challenge, I believe, that comes into play when writing Black women's history is the lack of sources available to accurately depict a Black women's lives throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth century. A question I have is what sources are currently available and in what quantity?  How hard is it to accurately write a history of black women versus white women when a limited number of sources are available and, are scholars able to work through this lack of material?   -abratchi