The Columbia documentary history of American women since 1941

From the Hoover vacuum cleaner to the fax machine, from the pill to reproductive rights, from Rosie the Riveter to Martha Stewart and Hillary Rodham Clinton, American women have grappled with a sometimes dizzying rate of social and economic change and continually shifting conceptions of gender. This...

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Other Authors: Sigerman, Harriet.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Warriors on the Homefront : American women and World War II
  • Letter to FDR ; J. Loveless ; L. N. Baker ; F. C. Hill ; B. M. Clifton ; Y. Uchida ; M. Meigs ; P. Terry ; W. & W. Ludlow ; J. Cochran ; E. Roosevelt ; S. Laughlin ; B. B. Hutchinson
  • Unquiet decade : domesticity, work, and social activism in postwar America
  • M. Farnham & F. Lundberg ; A. Stevenson ; M. P. Beals ; L. Smith ; M. C. Smith ; R. Parks ; E. Eckford ; Atlanta Journal-Constitution ; D. Wilson ; F. Rice ; R. Carson ; F. L. Hamer ; Anon. ; A. Mann ; M. D. Jones & N. Washburn ; H. G. Brown
  • Making the world anew : different paths to sexual equality
  • H. L. Snider ; B. Friedan ; Civil Rights Act : Title VII, 1964 ; National Organization for Women (NOW) ; D. Densmore ; Redstockings Manifesto ; S. Chisholm ; Ed. in Women ; L. W. Haessler ; G. Lerner ; J. Smith ; V. Gornick ; T. B. Hawthorne ; M. Wright ; Ms. magazine ; J. V. Chavez ; S. Weddington ; United States Supreme Court ; Boston Women's Health Book Collective ; Ms. readers ; D. Bolden ; A. C. Zuckoff ; M. Russell ; Declaration of American Women ; Combahee River Collective ; P. Schlafly ; Letters / rural Kentucky women
  • Retrenchment : gains and losses during the Reagan/Bush era
  • 1980 Republican Party platform ; W. R. Brower ; J. Falwell ; Homemakers' Equal Rights Ass. ; Women's Pentagon action ; B. Friedan ; E. Kreidman ; C. Gilligan ; Coalition on women and the budget ; G. Ferraro ; Smart women, foolish choices ; F. W. Burck ; R. Bagby ; N. Barrett ; Pope John Paul II ; A. Hochschild ; F. Schwartz ; U.S. Supreme Court ; C. Whitney ; P. Godley ; B. Bush ; J. Gray ; A. Hill ; S. J. McCarthy ; How schools shortchange girls ; R. C. Barnett & C. Rivers ; Rape in America ; H. Blackmun, Planned Parenthood V. Casey ; D. Quayle ; R. Suro
  • Third wave : feminism and family values in the 1990s
  • E. Salholz et al. ; Defense Department ; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ; N. Wolf ; Family Violence Prevention Fund ; T. Osborn ; R. B. Ginsburg ; D. A. Forrester ; Beijing Declaration ... 1995 ; V. Schein ; B. Clinton ; Welfare Reform ; V. M. Fitzsimmons ; E. Jong ; Baptist faith ; D. Haddock ; M. O'Neill ; C. Kalb et al. ; Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directive ; H. R. Clinton
  • Shaping a new millennium : old problems and new visions
  • K. Shanley ; A. Larocca ; L. Hektor ; Catalyst ; N. Marone ; R. Abelson ; N. Banerjee ; E. Birch ; D. K. Shah ; B. Kantrowitz ; B. Newman ; G. Lerner ; NOW ; N. Wolf ; J. Mirikitani.