| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
viii, 471 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-452) and index. |
| Contents |
Repudiating Rosie -- The way we lived -- Housework -- The ice cracks -- What happened? -- Civil rights -- The decline of the double standard -- Women's liberation -- Backlash -- "You're gonna make it after all" -- Work and children -- The 1980s -- having it all -- The nineties -- settling for less? -- The new millennium -- Hillary and Sarah...and Tahita. |
| Summary |
Tells how American women got from there to here, in politics, fashion, economics, sex, families and work in the past five decades. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History.
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women -- United States -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
9780316059541 |
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0316059544 |
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