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Columbia Documentary History Of America
Harriet . Ed(S): Sigerman
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Description for Columbia Documentary History Of America
Hardback. Illuminates a pivotal period of change, resistance, progress, and backlash for American women. The author chronicles an exciting and tumultuous history, beginning with World War II and its profound impact on women's short- and long-term employment prospects. Editor(s): Sigerman, Harriet. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1271.
This far-ranging collection of public and private sources illuminates a revolutionary half century for American women. The last six decades have been a pivotal period of change and resistance, progress and backlash for American women. From the Hoover vacuum cleaner to the fax machine, 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 collection of documents seeks to chronicle the exciting and tumultuous recent history of American women, beginning with World ... Read more
This far-ranging collection of public and private sources illuminates a revolutionary half century for American women. The last six decades have been a pivotal period of change and resistance, progress and backlash for American women. From the Hoover vacuum cleaner to the fax machine, 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 collection of documents seeks to chronicle the exciting and tumultuous recent history of American women, beginning with World ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231116985
SKU
V9780231116985
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About Harriet . Ed(S): Sigerman
Harriet Sigerman is an independent scholar. In addition to writing three volumes in the young adult series Young Oxford History of Women in the United States , she is the author of Land of Many Hands: Women in the American West and the award-winning Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "The Right Is Ours" .
Reviews for Columbia Documentary History Of America
This enormously valuable volume will provide documentary source materials for [those] who are searching for voices of and about American women throughout the second half of the 20th century. Library Journal A very current compendium that embraces the diversity of women's experience, this volume is accessible to a variety of audiences, but is particularly well suited to academics... Highly recommended. ... Read more