America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
by Collins, Gail
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060185104
- ISBN 13
- 9780060185107
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Synopsis
From the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs, America's Women tells the story of how women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America. Spanning wars, the pioneering days, the fight for suffrage, the Depression, the era of Rosie the Riveter, the civil rights movement, and the feminist rebellion of the 1970s, this book describes the way women's lives were altered by dress fashions, medical advances, rules of hygiene, social theories about sex and courtship, and the ever-changing attitudes toward education, work, and politics. While keeping her eye on the big picture, Gail Collins still notes that corsets and uncomfortable shoes mattered a lot too.
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- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36635
- Title
- America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
- Author
- Collins, Gail
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060185104
- ISBN 13
- 9780060185107
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- 0060185104
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women's Studies;
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