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| Title: | When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gail Collins |
| ISBN: | 9780316059541; 0316059544 |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-452) and index. Content: 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. |
| Description: | viii, 471 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Gail Collins. |
| Year: | 2009. |
| Publisher: | New York : Little, Brown and Co, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2008054933; National Library: 015341396 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HQ1421; Dewey No.: 305.40973/09045 |
| More information: | |
| OCLC No.: | 297529783 |
Abstract:
Tells how American women got from there to here, in politics, fashion, economics, sex, families and work in the past five decades.
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"Riveting and remarkably thorough in its account of this tumultuous period.... Collins draws on an impressive variety of sources...and employs her engaging and accessible writing style to created a very readable history book."-- The Associated Press, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, New York Daily News" "Rasha Madkour " Read more...
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