| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think about Sex and Politics. By Rosalind Rosenberg. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xiv, 396 pp. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-12644-1.)

One could argue that Rosalind Rosenberg had it too easy when she set out to write her latest book on the history of women at Columbia University. After all, by her own account, Columbia, located in one of America's most diverse and cosmopolitan cities, a city that had no shortage of brilliant women eager to gain access to higher education, seemed destined to take a leading role in shaping ideas about sex, gender, and politics. Making that case would amount simply to connecting the dots. And yet, in the hands of a lesser historian and writer, the story of the women of Columbia would not have been nearly as compelling.

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