A Century of Women: The Most Influential Events in Twentieth-Century Women's History

Couverture
Citadel Press, 2003 - 368 pages
Comprehensive and riveting, this important volume on women's history surveys the revolutionary changes in the social, economic, and political status of women during the twentieth century. From the battles of suffragists and labor activists such as Carrie Chapman Catt and Rose Schneiderman to the provocative ideas of Betty Friedan, here are the women of vision and courage who fought for equality and freedom. But here too are the unexpected medical and technological discoveries that removed a woman's destiny from the restrictions of biology -- the electric washing machine, anesthesia for childbirth, sulfa drugs to stop post-partum deaths, the birth control pill, and more. This lively and provocative history covers groundbreaking legislation and Supreme Court rulings, yet it doesn't neglect the often conflicting cultural forces -- from Emily Post and Barbie to the founding of the La Leche League and Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom -- that have shaped women's lives in today's world. Book jacket.
 

Table des matières

The Electric Washing Machine Is Invented
13
The National Womens Trade Union League Is Formed
23
Mary McLeod Bethune Founds the Daytona Normal
29
The Mann Act Outlaws Interstate Transportation
35
Juliette Gordon Low Founds the Girl Scouts of the
55
New York Socialite Mary Phelps Jacobs Patents
59
The First Birth Control Clinic Opens in Brooklyn
76
The League of Women Voters Is Founded
92
19551956 Twin Sisters Esther Pauline and Pauline Esther Friedman Become Ann Landers and Dear Abby
215
The La Leche League Is Founded
220
Barbie Makes Her Debut
223
19601969
229
The FDA Approves the Birth Control Pill
231
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Is Published
236
The Presidents Commission on the Status of Women Issues Its American Women Report
240
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibits Sex Discrimination in Employment
245

Betty Crocker Advertisings Symbol of Domesticity
106
Sex Hormones Are Discovered
130
19301939
139
Amelia Earhart Flies Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean
146
Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind Is Published
157
19401949
167
19411945 World War II
169
Seventeen a Magazine for Teenage Girls Is First Published
174
The First Baby Boomers Are Born
179
French Fashion Designer Louis Réard Invents the Bikini
185
The Lost Sex a Postwar Treatise on the Status of Women Is Published
189
19501959
195
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet Premiers
197
The Second Half of the Kinsey Report Sexual Behavior in the Human Female Is Published
202
The First Playboy Magazine Hits Newsstands
206
Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex Is Published in English
210
The National Organization for Women Is Founded
250
Shirley Chisholm Becomes the First AfricanAmerican Woman Member of Congress
254
19701979
259
The First Womens Studies Program Is Established by San Diego State College
261
Gloria Steinem Founds Ms Magazine
265
Congress Passes the Equal Rights Amendment
270
Abortion Is Legalized
283
The First Women Are Admitted to U S Military Academies
290
Sally Ride Becomes the First U S Woman Astronaut
297
The Supreme Court Rules Against Sexual Harassment
305
19901999
313
All Branches of the Military Are Ordered to Examine
323
Ellen DeGeneress Sitcom Character Comes Out
331
Appendix
337
Bibliography
355
Droits d'auteur

Autres éditions - Tout afficher

Expressions et termes fréquents

Informations bibliographiques