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Womanhood in America : from colonial times to the present / Mary P. Ryan.

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Main Author: Ryan, Mary P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : F. Watts, ℗♭1983.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Women > United States > History.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Sex role.
Sex discrimination > United States.
Sex discrimination.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Adam's rib : the first century of American womanhood
  • Patriarchy in disarray : women and commercial capitalism : 1750-1829
  • Creating woman's sphere : gender in the making of American industrial capitalism : 1820-1865
  • The breadgivers : immigrants and reformers : 1865-1920
  • The erosion of woman's sphere : heterosexuality and the streamlined home : 1910-1940
  • A domestic interlude in a kaleidoscope of roles : 1940-1960
  • Toward gender symmetry : feminism and family change : 1960-1980.

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