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When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present
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When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present

Author: Gail Collins
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Database: WorldCat
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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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Title: When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present /
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
OCLC No.: 297529783

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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 Read more...

 
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