| Description |
xv, 468 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Visions of the New Woman. The Fair women, Chicago, 1893 -- Black women plan to lead their race -- Frances Willard equates learning to ride a bicycle with opening new frontiers for women -- An immigrant daughter awakens to the possibilities of the New World -- Dance hall madness -- A new restlessness in women's fiction. |
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Expanding Horizons for Educated Women. M. Carey Thomas at Cornell -- Jane Addams struggles with the problem of "after college, what?" -- Alice Hamilton explores the dangerous trades -- Black women enter the teaching profession -- A pioneering dean of women -- Women and progressive politics. |
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Women at Work. The burdens of rural women's lives -- The harsh conditions of domestic service -- Working in a New York laundry -- The story of a glove maker -- Protective legislation for women workers. |
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Feminists, Anarchists, and Other Rebel Girls. Housewives protest high food prices -- A feminist challenge to the privatized home -- Margaret Sanger's epiphany over birth control -- A radical view of women's emancipation -- Greenwich Village bohemians. |
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The Final Push for Suffrage. A Western suffragist talks to her Eastern sisters -- Open-air meetings: a new suffrage tactic -- A labor organizer speaks out for suffrage -- "Front door lobbying" for suffrage -- Suffrage militant Alice Paul goes to jail. |
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New Dilemmas for Modern Women. New voters -- Generational conflicts -- Creating a feminist lifestyle -- Anxious mothers write the Children's Bureau -- Female adolescence. |
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Women Face the Depression. The despair of unemployed women -- A California woman asks Eleanor Roosevelt for help -- The Dust Bowl -- The life cycle of a white Southern farm woman -- Harder times for Black Americans -- Women and labor militancy. |
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Rosie the Riveter and Other Wartime Women. Rosie the riveter -- Women in the armed forces -- Wartime romances -- Wartime migration -- Japanese relocation. |
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The Fifties: the Way We Were? The feminine mystique, from the woman who coined the phrase -- Another view of housewives in the 1950s -- Balancing work and family in the 1950s -- A matter of conscience -- Civil rights activists -- Coming of age in Mississippi. |
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The Revival of Feminism. Founding the National Organization for Women, 1966 -- Feminist guerilla theater, 1968 -- The politics of housework -- Thoughts on Indian feminism -- Black feminism -- A more personal view of Black feminism. |
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Women Organizing for Social Change. Clerical workers unite -- The real "Norma Rae" tells her story -- Organizing the farm workers -- Women on welfare. |
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New Issues of Sex and Sexuality. Sex and the single girl -- Women and health -- Abortion as a legal and feminist issue -- Coming out -- If men could menstruate. |
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Conflicting Visions from the 1970s and 1980s. Houston, 1977 -- The positive woman -- Feminism's second stage -- The gender gap -- The next generation. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women social reformers. (OCoLC)fst01178540
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Added Author |
Ware, Susan, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Modern American women. Chicago, Ill. : Dorsey Press, ©1989 (OCoLC)654706986 |
| ISBN |
0256037442 |
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9780256037449 |
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0256071179 (pbk.) |
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9780256071177 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
ZBWT00214400 |
