| Description |
xiii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Note |
"A Birch Lane Press book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358) and index. |
| Contents |
1900-1909: Carry Nation -- The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union formed -- Electric washing machine invented -- The twilight sleep technique for painless childbirth introduced -- National Women's Trade Union League is Formed -- Mary McLeod Bethune founds the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls -- 1910-1919: The Mann Act -- First women movie stars -- Dr. Alice Hamilton -- The Triangle Shirwaist fire -- The first International Women's Day -- Juliette Gordon founds Girl Scouts -- Mary Phelps Jacobs patents the brassiere -- Mother's Day becomes a national holiday -- "Vogue" becomes the leading fashion magazine -- The Woman's Peace Party founded -- The first birth control clinic opens -- Jeanette Rankin is first woman elected to U.S. Congress -- WWI -- League of Women Voters founded -- 1920-1929: Congress ratifies 19th amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote -- Betty Crocker -- Miss America -- Sheppard-Towner Act -- Women track & field athletes included in Amateur Athletic Union -- "History of Woman Suffrage" is published -- Sex hormones are discovered -- Margaret Mead publishes "Coming of age in Samoa" -- 1930-1939: The Great Depression -- Amelia Earhart flies solo -- Sulfa drugs first used against puerperal (childbed) fever -- National Council of Negro Women is organized -- Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" published -- Karen Horney challenges Freudian conceptions of female psychology in "New Ways in Psychoanalysis" -- WWII -- "Seventeen" Magazine for teens published -- First baby boomers born -- French fashion designer Louis Reard invents the bikini -- "Modern woman: the lost sex", a postwar treatise on the status of women, is published -- |
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1950-1959: "The adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" premiers -- The 2nd half of the Kinsey Report, "Sexual behavior in the human female" published -- "Playboy" hits the stands -- Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" published in English -- Twins Esther Pauline and Pauline Esther Friedman become "Ann Landers" and "Dear Abby" -- The La Leche League founded -- Barbie makes her debut -- 1960-1969: FDA approves the birth control pill -- "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan is published -- The President's Commission on the Status of Women issues its "American Women" report -- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sex discrimination in employment -- NOW (The National Organization for Women) is founded -- Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African-American woman member of Congress -- 1970-1979: The first Women's Studies program is established by San Diego State College -- Gloria Steinem founds "Ms." Magazine -- Congress passes the ERA -- Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs -- The first rape crisis centers open -- Abortion is legalized -- The first women are admitted to U.S. military academies -- 1980-1989: Sally Ride is first woman in space -- EMILY's List founded to help women's political campaigns -- The Supreme Court rules against sexual harassment -- Supreme Court prohibits discrimination against women in private social clubs -- 1990-1999: AAUW (American Assn of University Women) publishes "How Schools Shortchange Girls" -- An unprecedented number of women run for political office -- All branches of the military are ordered to examine and justify policies that exclude women from combat duty -- Supreme Court orders VMI to admit women -- Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom character comes out. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Chronology.
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| Added Title |
Most influential events in 20th century women's history |
| ISBN |
1559724854 |
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9781559724852 |
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