America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
Autor Gail Collinsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 apr 2007
In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today, she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat.
In some periods, women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades—to colonize the nation, pioneer the West, and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between, economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home, confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman’s experience, Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780061227226
ISBN-10: 0061227226
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Harper Perennia.
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN-10: 0061227226
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Harper Perennia.
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția William Morrow Paperbacks
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America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.
By culling the most fascinating characters -- the average as well as the celebrated -- Gail Collins, the editorial page editor at the New York Times, charts a journey that shows how women lived, what they cared about, and how they felt about marriage, sex, and work. She begins with the lost colony of Roanoke and the early southern "tobacco brides" who came looking for a husband and sometimes -- thanks to the stupendously high mortality rate -- wound up marrying their way through three or four. 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, America's Women 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, Collins still notes that corsets and uncomfortable shoes mattered a lot, too.
"The history of American women is about the fight for freedom," Collins writes in her introduction, "but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's roles that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders."
Told chronologically through the compelling stories of individual lives that, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience, America's Women is both a great read and a landmark work of history.
By culling the most fascinating characters -- the average as well as the celebrated -- Gail Collins, the editorial page editor at the New York Times, charts a journey that shows how women lived, what they cared about, and how they felt about marriage, sex, and work. She begins with the lost colony of Roanoke and the early southern "tobacco brides" who came looking for a husband and sometimes -- thanks to the stupendously high mortality rate -- wound up marrying their way through three or four. 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, America's Women 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, Collins still notes that corsets and uncomfortable shoes mattered a lot, too.
"The history of American women is about the fight for freedom," Collins writes in her introduction, "but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's roles that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders."
Told chronologically through the compelling stories of individual lives that, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience, America's Women is both a great read and a landmark work of history.
Recenzii
“A fascinating compendium” — Oprah Magazine
“Masterful...Collins’ sly wit and unfussy style makes this historical book extremely accessible.” — People
“Though America’s Women is an easy and entertaining read, it also fulfills the radical promise of women’s history.” — Chicago Tribune
“Illuminating cultural history of American women... Informative and entertaining.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Collins offers a fast-paced and entertaining narrative history of American women.” — Library Journal
“This is one of the most fascinating American History books I’ve ever read. I learned something new on every page.” — Huntsville Times
“Gail Collins knows how to tell a story. Lively, witty, and dead serious, this wise history is a fascinating read.” — Linda K. Kerber, professor of history, University of Iowa, and author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies
“Masterful...Collins’ sly wit and unfussy style makes this historical book extremely accessible.” — People
“Though America’s Women is an easy and entertaining read, it also fulfills the radical promise of women’s history.” — Chicago Tribune
“Illuminating cultural history of American women... Informative and entertaining.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Collins offers a fast-paced and entertaining narrative history of American women.” — Library Journal
“This is one of the most fascinating American History books I’ve ever read. I learned something new on every page.” — Huntsville Times
“Gail Collins knows how to tell a story. Lively, witty, and dead serious, this wise history is a fascinating read.” — Linda K. Kerber, professor of history, University of Iowa, and author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies
Notă biografică
Gail Collins, a columnist for the New York Times, was the the first woman ever to serve as editorial page editor for the paper. Previously, she was a member of the Times editorial board, and a columnist for the New York Daily News and New York Newsday.