Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Women in 1900 -- Women and the family: 1900-1940 -- Work at home: 1900-1940 -- The workplace: 1900-1940 -- Ambivalence, nostalgia, and transition -- The baby-boom family -- Perspectives on high fertility -- Women's work: 1940-1960 -- The changing context of fertility: 1960-1986 -- The new workplace -- Women's rush to work: Necessity or opportunity? -- Women at the end of the twentieth century