ISBN:
0060162791
Language:
English
Pages:
XXI, 230 S.
DDC:
305.42/0973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1950-1960
;
Femmes - États-Unis - Conditions sociales
;
Femmes - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Féminisme - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Feminism History 20th century
;
Women History 20th century
;
Women Social conditions
;
Frau
;
Alltag
;
États-Unis - Mœurs et coutumes - 1945-1970
;
USA
;
United States Social life and customs 1945-1970
;
USA
;
USA
;
Frau
;
Alltag
;
Geschichte 1950-1960
Abstract:
Many think of America in the 1950s as our last happy decade, with every family just like the one in "Leave It to Beaver," and every woman living just like Donna Reed. In fact, it was a time of great fear, especially for women, and especially the fear of not fitting in. As a woman you were odd if you graduated from college without being married; if you were married, you were odd if you didn't immediately have children; if you had children, you were odd if you also wanted
Abstract:
to work. Before the feminist movement, women were treated as second-class citizens whose roles were utterly restricted, and The Fifties: A Women's Oral History fully explores those roles, the women who lived them, and the women who broke the molds. Filled with moving and revealing stories from a broad canvas of women speaking in their own words, The Fifties tells what it really was like to be a "good girl," to get an illegal abortion, to try against all odds for an
Abstract:
advanced academic degree, to raise children and keep a home in the suburbs, to follow your dreams of having a profession, and even to live, politically and sexually, far from the mainstream of American life. These are stories of women's lives - some very tragic, some remarkably heroic - and they reveal to us all over again an era we thought we knew so well
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