Title At odds : women and the family in America from the Revolution to the present / Carl N. Degler.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	301.41 D318A	Check Shelf

Description	xiv, 527 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-514) and index.
Contents	The Emergence of the Modern American Family -- Wives and Husbands -- Wife and Mother -- Women and Children -- Inducting Children into the Social Order -- Under Stress: Families of Afro-Americans and Immigrants -- Women Challenge the Family -- Women in the Making of the Demographic Transition -- Limiting Fertility -- Abortion: Women's Last Resort -- Women's Sexuality in 19th-Century America -- Organizing to Control Sexuality -- The World is Only a Large Home -- The Suffrage Fight: The Last Step Was Really the First -- Women's Work: The First Transformation -- Women at Work: Unions, Farms, and Professions -- The Second Transformation in Women's Work -- Women's Dilemma -- Notes -- Index.
Summary	"This book is designed not only to tell the story of American women and the American family over the last two centuries, but to show as concretely and analytically as possible how the interaction has shaped the family and the life of women down to the present."--Preface.
Subject	Women -- United States -- History.
	Families -- United States -- History.
	Family -- United States -- History.
	Family -- history. (DNLM)D005190Q000266
	Women -- history. (DNLM)D014930Q000266
	United States. (DNLM)D014481
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Women -- History.
	United States -- Social life and customs.
	United States -- History.
	Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld (DE-588)10090522-5
	Familie (DE-588)4016397-0
	Frau (DE-588)4018202-2
	Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
	Vrouwen.
	Frau.
	United States.
Chronological Term	Geschichte.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Online version: Degler, Carl N. At odds. New York : Oxford University Press, 1980 (OCoLC)646998867
ISBN	0195026578
	9780195026573
	0195029348
	9780195029345
Sudoc No.	Y 1.1/8:112-374

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