Bibliograph

Mothers and more, American women in the 1950s, Eugenia Kaledin

Type

Label

Mothers and more, American women in the 1950s, Eugenia Kaledin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-253) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mothers and more

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

10996524

Responsibility statement

Eugenia Kaledin

Series statement

American women in the twentieth century

Sub title

American women in the 1950s

Summary

An account of the lives, work, and consciousness of American women during the Eisenhower Era

Table Of Contents

1. The 1950s : global awareness and domestic change -- 2. American women : images and acts -- 3. Education : functionalism, facts, and democratic ideals -- 4. Work : new statistics and old discriminations -- 5. Political women : party connections and outside power -- 6. Women of letters : apostles of moral indignation -- 7. Writers of imagination : private worlds and social visions -- 8. Black women : activists, artists, and athletes -- 9. Health : new old women and "neurotic" mothers -- 10. Artists and scholars : the identity of profession -- 11. Conclusion -- Essay on sources

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