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| | Women's History |
 | | These women, in the words of pioneer physician Elizabeth Blackwell, "did not wish to give them[selves] a first place, still less a second one--but the most complete freedom to take their true place whatever it may be. |
 | | Although there had long been an interest in the lives of notable women, the field of women's history, as it is practiced today, began in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the new emphasis on social history. |
 | | Anthropologist Margaret Mead, actresses Lillian Gish, Margaret Webster, and Ruth Gordon, aviator Marjorie Claire Stinson, sculptor Adelaide Johnson, and authors Shirley Jackson and Edna St. Vincent Millay are also represented. |
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