In her new social history, America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines, Gail Collins, the first woman to head up the New York Times editorial pages, surveyed American women going back four hundred years from the lives of colonial housewives to the can do everything women of the 21st century. Patt Morrison talks with Gail Collins about America‰Þªs women and their "struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed messages about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders."
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