A Century of Women: The Most Influential Events in Twentieth-Century Women's HistoryCitadel 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 |
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Références à ce livre
Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change Robyn Wiegman Affichage d'extraits - 2002 |