ISBN:
9780802192783
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (517 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Miedzian, Myriam Generations : A Century of Women Speak about Their Lives
DDC:
305.42/092/273
Keywords:
Women-United States-Biography
;
Women-United States-History
;
Women-United States-Social conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Generations -- Title Page -- Copyright © 1997 by Myriam Miedzian and Alisa Malinovich -- Acknowledgment -- Dedication -- Explanation of Book Layout -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Epigraph -- I Never Knew We Were Poor -- GROWING UP -- Growing Up: The First Generation -- Leave the Door Slightly Ajar -- We Respected Our Elders -- I Never Saw My Parents' Marriage Certificate -- I Felt Very Sorry for My Mother -- Everything Was So Segregated -- How Could I Have Just Accepted It -- Mining Towns Were Rough and Ready -- The Path of Femininity -- My Parents Were Professional Bridge Players -- My, How We Danced -- Growing Up: The Second Generation -- The Jitterbug Was Very Popular -- My Mother Was a Housewife -- My Mother Would Say Gaman -- We Were Very Aware of Being a Minority -- It Was Like Going from Darkness to Daylight -- Nice Guys and Not-Nice Guys -- My Parents Dreamed a Big Dream -- It Was 1960 -- Did You Ever See Panic in Needle Park? -- I Was Nineteen, I Was a Hippie -- Growing Up: The Third Generation -- The Real Live Thing -- This American Life -- Would the Mother Please Stand -- I Remember the Day My Dad Said He Was Leaving -- Facades -- I Kept Saying No -- Dad, I'm a Lesbian, You Probably Knew -- I Feel Very Close to Women -- My Grandmother Raised Me to Cook and Clean -- The Last Virgin on Flatbush Avenue -- You Ought to Be My All and All -- FAMILY -- Family: The First Generation -- The Second Marriage Was the Real Marriage, Except We Never Married -- I Met My Husband at the LaGuardia Campaign -- When The First Blade Of Grass Came Up, We Were Thrilled -- A Wonderful Life -- Men Always Made the Big Decisions -- Women of My Generation Closed Their Eyes -- I Always Had a Wild Temper -- This Square That My Kids Thought I Was -- Family: The Second Generation -- You Never Realize How Much Work Is Involved
Abstract:
My Generation Was Transitional -- I Expanded -- He Contracted -- We Split Up -- I Had Sex, Therefore I Must Be in Love -- Maybe This Is Really What I Am? -- Harder on the Marriage Than on the Children -- It Has to Be a Shared Responsibility -- It's Called Survival -- I Could Not Live in a Traditional Setting -- Family: The Third Generation -- I Do Things Out of the Norm -- I Didn't Know Normal Would Be So Tiring -- Our Marriage Is Too Important to Fight over It -- Day by Day -- He Had to Have Total Control -- Slapping Force -- His Family Is One Way and Mine Is Another -- Not the Kind of Life My Mother Had -- How Did Someone Like You Get Elected? -- WORK -- Work: The First Generation -- I Found It Very Difficult to Be Heard -- I Have Done a Lot of Volunteer Work -- A Hundred and Thirty-One Women and One Toilet -- The War Brought Women Out of Their Homes -- I Don't Know Why I Wanted to Be a Doctor -- What a Rigamarole -- Work: The Second Generation -- You Are Like a Little Wife at Work -- I Never Planned a Career -- I Don't Believe in Being a Crutch -- I Believe in Assisting -- I See Horrible Callousness -- I've Never, Never Worn Pants to Teach -- My Mother Said You Should Be Equipped to Do Something -- They Don't Care about the Little Guy -- Why Are You Doing That Kind of Work? -- I'm a Fourth-Generation Priest -- Second-Class Citizen -- Work: The Third Generation -- I Run the Paver -- I Spread the Blacktop -- What's Happening -- A Dream Job -- The Girls Don't Stand for It -- I Always Loved the Hospital -- A Matter of Choosing -- You Made Law Review -- Creative Ways -- Back Cover
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