The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231116993 ISBN 13: 9780231116992

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This far-ranging collection of public and private sources illuminates a revolutionary half century for American women. The last six decades have been a pivotal period of change and resistance, progress and backlash for American women. From the Hoover vacuum cleaner to the fax machine, the pill to reproductive rights, from Rosie the Riveter to Martha Stewart and Hillary Rodham Clinton American women have grappled with a sometimes dizzying rate of social and economic change and continually shifting conceptions of gender.

This collection of documents seeks to chronicle the exciting and tumultuous recent history of American women, beginning with World War II, and the lasting reverberations of the greater employment opportunities for women created by the war effort. Subsequent documents speak to a series of timely topics: the ideas and changes brought about by the women's movement, the challenges to and defense of reproductive rights, the backlash against feminism in the name of family values, and new visions for women's lives in the twenty-first century.

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Book Description

This extensive collection of public and private sources illuminates a pivotal period of change, resistance, progress, and backlash for American women. From the Hoover vacuum cleaner to the fax machine, from the pill to reproductive rights, and from Rosie the Riveter to Martha Stewart and Hillary Rodham Clinton, American women have grappled with a dizzying array of social and economic developments and shifting conceptions of gender. Respected scholar Harriet Sigerman chronicles an exciting and tumultuous history, beginning with World War II and its profound impact on women's short- and long-term employment prospects. Subsequent documents speak to a series of timely topics: the ideas and changes brought about by the women's movement, the challenges to and defense of reproductive rights, the backlash against feminism in the name of family values, and new visions for women's lives in the twenty-first century. The volume's diverse voices include Lillian Smith, Rosa Parks, Dagmar Wilson, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Carol Gilligan, Fannie Lou Hamer, Naomi Wolf, Anita Hill, Erica Jong, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, among many others.

About the Author

Harriet Sigerman is an independent scholar. In addition to writing three volumes in the young adult series Young Oxford History of Women in the United States , she is the author of Land of Many Hands: Women in the American West and the award-winning Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "The Right Is Ours" .

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0231116993
• ISBN 13: 9780231116992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Sigerman Harriet