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"Life after the war takes an unexpected turn for the Kopp sisters, but soon enough, they are putting their unique detective skills to use in new and daring ways. Winter 1919: Norma is summoned home from France, Constance is called back from Washington, and Fleurette puts her own plans on hold as the sisters rally around their recently widowed sister-in-law and her children. How are four women going to support themselves? A chance encounter offers...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, “The Feminine Mystique”. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it.
In “A Strange Stirring”, historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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In 1960, the FDA approved the oral contraceptive that would come to be known as the pill. Within a few years, millions of women were using it. At a time when the population was surging, many believed that the drug would help eradicate poverty around the globe, ensure happy and stable marriages, and liberate women. In America and the Pill, preeminent social historian Elaine Tyler May reveals the ways in which the pill did and did not fulfill these...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Women in their seventies and eighties evaluate the opportunities, choices, and accidents that marked their lives, in personal accounts that share their perspectives on such topics as the era of the "silent majority," World War II, and the sexual revolution.
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Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Though a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces together the true story...
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"In this memoir, celebrated author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher; of the small apartment she found, which became a home in which...
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English
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"Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in It's Up to the Women, her book of advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. Written at the height of the Great Depression, she called on women particularly to do their part--cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking personal responsibility for keeping the economy going. Whether it's the recommendation...
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"At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, [the author] began to feel trapped ... by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. [She] wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge, Barbara Newhall Follett ... [who] in December 1939, when...
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Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The bitter and public court battle waged between Nina and James Walker of Newport, Rhode Island from 1909 to 1916 created a sensation throughout the nation with lurid accounts of--and gossip about--their marital troubles. The ordeal of this high-society couple, who wed as much for status as for love, is one of the prime examples of the growing trend of women seeking divorce during the early twentieth century. Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness--the...
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Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Describes what life was like for American women in the 1920s and 1930s, discussing such aspects as family life; working life; their involvement in education, science, politics, sports, and the arts; and the lives of minority women.
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Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Describes what life was like for American women from 1900 to 1920, discussing such aspects as family life, activities outside the home, working life, their role in World War I, gaining the right to vote, and minority women's lives.
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Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"This biography details the life of Sara Tyson Hallowell, who challenged nineteenth-century expectations about the proper place of well-born women and became the first important female curator and art advisor in America. It is the story of her triumphs and disappointments, as she sought to create a career in a professional arena previously occupied only by men. It is a narrative that speaks to the role of talent and perseverance, as well as chance...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Based on the true-life adventures of the first female performers to join the U.S.O., Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair play themselves in the film adaptation of Carole Landis's novel by the same name.