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Collins Gail - America's Women 400 Years Of Dolls Drudges Helpmates And Heroines - Paperback
Collins Gail - America's Women 400 Years Of Dolls Drudges Helpmates And Heroines - Paperback
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Description: Rich in detail filled with fascinating characters and panoramic in its sweep this magnificent comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st - century In this sweeping cultural history Gail Collins explores the transformations victories and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat. In some periods women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades to colonize the nation pioneer the West and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives linked together provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.
Title: America's Women 400 Years Of Dolls Drudges Helpmates And Heroines
Author(s): Collins Gail
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061227226
Pages: 608 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/1/2007
Description: Rich in detail filled with fascinating characters and panoramic in its sweep this magnificent comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st - century In this sweeping cultural history Gail Collins explores the transformations victories and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat. In some periods women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades to colonize the nation pioneer the West and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives linked together provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.
Title: America's Women 400 Years Of Dolls Drudges Helpmates And Heroines
Author(s): Collins Gail
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061227226
Pages: 608 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/1/2007