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At odds : women and the family in America from the Revolution to the present
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"This book is designed not only to tell the story of American women and the American family over the last two centuries, but to show as concretely and analytically as possible how the interaction h...
"This book is designed not only to tell the story of American women and the American family over the last two centuries, but to show as concretely and analytically as possible how the interaction has shaped the family and the life of women down to the present."--Preface.
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- Creator
- Carl N. Degler
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1980
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 527 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0195026578, 9780195026573, 0195029348, 9780195029345
- OCLC
- ocm05170418, ocm05170418
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-514) and index.
- The Emergence of the Modern American Family -- Wives and Husbands -- Wife and Mother -- Women and Children -- Inducting Children into the Social Order -- Under Stress: Families of Afro-Americans and Immigrants -- Women Challenge the Family -- Women in the Making of the Demographic Transition -- Limiting Fertility -- Abortion: Women's Last Resort -- Women's Sexuality in 19th-Century America -- Organizing to Control Sexuality -- The World is Only a Large Home -- The Suffrage Fight: The Last Step Was Really the First -- Women's Work: The First Transformation -- Women at Work: Unions, Farms, and Professions -- The Second Transformation in Women's Work -- Women's Dilemma -- Notes -- Index
Subjects
- Women -- United States -- History.
- Families -- United States -- History.
- Families -- United States -- History.
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- Family -- history.
Medical Subject Heading
- Women -- history.
Medical Subject Heading
- United States.
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