Traces women in the professions in light of the women's movement, changing attitudes towards women's inferiority and the Victorian cult of domesticity ?The best synthesis of currents in women's history. ...Harris's material on women in the professions is cogently and intelligently presented....This thoughtful, well-reasoned study should become one of the standard histories in the field.?-Journal of American History "The best synthesis of currents in women's history. ...Harris's material on women in the professions is cogently and intelligently presented....This thoughtful, well-reasoned study should become one of the standard histories in the field."-Journal of American History rris /f Barbara /i J.